Implemented nationwide and funded by the government, GMIS aimed to boost facility deliveries by paying midwives and other trained health personnel with cash incentives based on the number of live births they attended in public health facilities USD15 for a live birth in a health centre and USD10 for a live birth in a referral hospital.
The available evidence strongly suggests that GMIS is an effective mechanism to complement other interventions to improve health system performance and boost facility deliveries as well as skilled birth attendance; thereby contributing to the reduction of maternal mortality.
The interrupted time series analyses confirm the pre-existing view—shared by all our informants that GMIS did significantly help with the overall country strategy to improve health system performance and boost facility deliveries, and consequently, deliveries attended by trained health personnel.
(IDI, Public Healthcare provider) " The advantage to the facility is, one; they are getting another source of funds which is coming to boost the facility's upkeep and standards.
A facility manager had this to say; " The advantage to the facility is, one; they are getting another source of funds which is coming to boost the facility's upkeep and standards.
Sujay Shetty of PwC, a consultancy, says the most astute manufacturers are improving their facilities and boosting training, to show they are complying with the agency's strict rules.However, the FDA's inspectors cannot be in all places at all times.
Surveys show that, while these policies have often been imperfectly implemented, for the most part they have been effective in boosting the use of health facilities [ 9– 11].
The challenge now is not simply to glory in all this elite achievement but to transform it into something that benefits the wider populace, to boost participation and facilities, to water not just the tips of the grass but its roots too.
Firstly, for the public health sector, there is an urgent need to carry out intervention programmes that can boost primary health facilities to provide information regarding adverse effects in this community, something that includes the home made tobacco products usage.
The value of workplace safety for trust and motivation were a major finding in Papua New Guinea where HWs believed that provision of security within health facilities boosted their confidence and enhanced their trust in the government [ 48].
