A Study of the Maternal and Child Health Poverty Alleviation Fund in China:Background and Objeetives
Abstract：Sponsored by the World Bank and Ministry of Health(MoH)of China,an intensive study entitled"A study of the maternal and child health poverty alleviation fund(MCH PAF)in China"has been undertaken from 1995 through 1999. The main objectives of MCH PAF Study are: ( 1 )To demonstrate how MCH PAF can reach the poorest people and improve their access to the MCH services; (2)To carefully document the process of the operation of the MCH PAF under intensive monitoring and process evaluation; (3)To provide detailed data collected by a cautiously designed information management system, and thereby evidences how PAF works and to what extent does PAF improve the access of the poorest people to a set of MCH services,and; (4)To describe the barriers to the poorest people to utilize the PAF and lessons learnt how to deal with these obstructions. Thispaper introduces the background and objectives of the MCH PAF Study, as an oporations research paralleled with the World Bank-China Ministry of Health Health Ⅵ Program.
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Publication Date：2001-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 32-33 )