The State-Led Large Scale Public Private Partnership ‘Chiranjeevi Program’ to Increase Access to Institutional Delivery among Poor Women in Gujarat, India: How Has It Done? What Can We Learn?

Ayesha De Costa; Kranti S. Vora; Kayleigh Ryan; Parvathy Sankara Raman; Michele Santacatterina; Dileep Mavalankar

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095704

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The State-Led Large Scale Public Private Partnership ‘Chiranjeevi Program’ to Increase Access to Institutional Delivery among Poor Women in Gujarat, India: How Has It Done? What Can We Learn?

Ayesha De Costa ,

* E-mail: Ayesha.de.costa@ki.se

Affiliation Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kranti S. Vora,

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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Kayleigh Ryan,

Affiliation Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Parvathy Sankara Raman,

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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Michele Santacatterina,

Affiliation Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Dileep Mavalankar

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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The State-Led Large Scale Public Private Partnership ‘Chiranjeevi Program’ to Increase Access to Institutional Delivery among Poor Women in Gujarat, India: How Has It Done? What Can We Learn?

Ayesha De Costa,
Kranti S. Vora,
Kayleigh Ryan,
Parvathy Sankara Raman,
Michele Santacatterina,
Dileep Mavalankar

Published: May 1, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095704

About the Authors

Ayesha De Costa

* E-mail: Ayesha.de.costa@ki.se

Affiliation Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Kranti S. Vora

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Kayleigh Ryan

Affiliation Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Parvathy Sankara Raman

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Michele Santacatterina

Affiliation Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Dileep Mavalankar

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADC DM KV. Performed the experiments: ADC KR MS PS. Analyzed the data: KR MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADC PS DM. Wrote the paper: ADC DM KR.

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