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Impact of free newborn care service package on out of pocket expenditure‐evidence from a multicentric study in Nepal by Sunny, Avinash K (author);Basnet, Omkar (author);Acharya, Ankit (author);Poudel, Prajwal (author);Malqvist, Mats (author);KC, Ashish (author) is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.

## Abstract ## Background Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) aspires to improve universal health coverage through reduction of Out of Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) and improving the quality of care. In the last two decades, there have been several efforts to reduce the OOPE for maternal and newborn care. In this paper, we evaluate the change in the OOPE for treatment of sick newborn at hospital before and after implementation of a free newborn care (FNC) program in hospitals of Nepal. ## Methods Ministry of Health and Population implemented a free newborn care program which reimbursed the cost of treatment for all sick newborns admitted in public hospitals in Nepal from November 2017. We conducted this pre-post quasi-experimental study with four months of pre-implementation and 12 months of post-implementation of the program in 12 hospitals of Nepal. Logistic regression analysis was conducted for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney test was applied for continuous variables to determine statistically significant differences between pre- and post- intervention period. ## Results A total of 353 sick newborns were admitted into these hospitals before implementation of the FNC program wh

Author

Sunny, Avinash K (author);Basnet, Omkar (author);Acharya, Ankit (author);Poudel, Prajwal (author);Malqvist, Mats (author);KC, Ashish (author)

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)