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🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where groundbreaking academic research meets curious minds like yours 🧠💡! We are thrilled to have you here for another deep dive into the world of peer-reviewed brilliance, where we unpack ideas that shape policies, shift paradigms, and spark new questions. 📚✨
Today, we’re turning our attention to a powerful and timely topic — maternal health in India — through the lens of a government initiative that’s as ambitious as it is debated: Janani Suraksha Yojana, or JSY for short. 💸🏥👶
The article we’re exploring is titled:
“Demand Side Financing for Promoting Institutional Delivery: Experiences of Janani Suraksha Yojana in Indian States” — authored by the insightful J. Krishna Nair and Pulak Mishra 🖊️🧠.
Published by Elsevier on January 22, 2025, in none other than the International Journal of Health Economics and Management — a Scopus Q1 journal 🏆📈 — this is research that’s earned its place at the top of the academic food chain.
So, what happens when a cash incentive is offered to expecting mothers to encourage institutional births? 🤔 Do more women flock to hospitals? Does the choice between public and private healthcare shift? And more importantly... does the JSY really deliver on its promise, or is it just money changing hands without real impact?
Using robust data from the National Family Health Survey, the authors reveal a story that’s both encouraging and eye-opening. While interactions with health workers and per capita income drive up institutional deliveries, the JSY’s direct role is… surprisingly limited. Yet, it does nudge households toward choosing public over private hospitals — a finding that stirs more questions than answers.
🧐 So here’s what I want to know...
If the JSY isn’t moving the needle on institutional births, is it time to rethink how we design public health incentives in India? Could quality, not cash, be the real game changer? 🤯💭
A massive thank you to the authors J. Krishna Nair and Pulak Mishra, and to Elsevier for bringing this vital research to light. 🙏📖
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Reference
Nair, J.K., Mishra, P. Demand side financing for promoting institutional delivery: experiences of Janani Suraksha Yojana in Indian states. Int J Health Econ Manag. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-025-09391-w
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