Publications by authors named "Florent Bedecarrats"
A Rural Observatory System (ROS) was established in Madagascar to address the lack of socioeconomic data on rural areas. It collected, analyzed, and disseminated data to help formulate and evaluate development policies. From 1995 to 2015, the ROS surveyed a total of 26 areas.
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- Health financing schemes based on pre-payment models have been introduced in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Mauritania's Obstetric Risk Insurance (ORI) aimed at improving maternal and neonatal health since 2002.
- The study evaluated the ORI's effectiveness in increasing the use of facility-based deliveries and other maternal health services from 2002 to 2011 using demographic survey data and various statistical methods.
- Findings revealed no overall improvement in facility-based delivery rates or antenatal/postnatal care due to ORI, though local health centers with ORI showed slight increases in delivery rates compared to those without, while late neonatal mortality rates decreased in non-ORI districts.