Maternity expenditure includes not only institutional delivery expenditure but also covers expenditure on ANCs and PNCs.
The other major study by Mohanty and Srivastava [26] found that OOPE in public health centers has declined over time, with OOPE delivery expenditure in public hospitals averaging approximately US$39 compared to US$139 in private hospitals in 2004 07.
The catastrophic levels and nature of maternity expenditure, especially about delivery expenditure have been documented in previous studies in India [6, 9, 10, 27, 34, 36], but their analyses suffer from data related limitations, especially in terms of completeness of details on maternity expenditure and also in terms of identifying the supply-side factors determining it.
Therefore, it reveals from our findings that the net JSY benefits received by women are very less compared to the amount prescribed in JSY entitlements; (2) Even if women accessing the full JSY entitlement (US$244), it is too less in comparison with average maternity or delivery expenditure (US$1555).
The increasing number of older adults who are diagnosed with dementia has far-reaching implications for health service delivery and expenditures [ 1].
The improvements in the quality of Maternity Benefit Package (MBP) services and the increase of JSY incentives not only to support delivery care expenditure but also to cover expenditure incurred on ANC, Internatal Care (INC), Postnatal Care (PNC), and Essential New Born Care (ENBC).
Also, our estimates of average delivery care expenditure are slightly more than estimates from the other study that used NSS data [9].
Separate regression models for ANCs and delivery care expenditure reveal that education, income, place of residence and place of ANCs emerged as significant predictors of variation in relative expenditure on ANCs, while education, income, type of delivery and type of hospital for delivery emerged as significant predictors of variation in relative expenditure on delivery.
Even after adjusting for inflation, our estimate of average delivery care expenditure ($56) is double in comparison with an estimate from the study by Mohanty and Srivastava [36] for UP, based on DLHS data ($23), while it is in line with recent NFHS-IV [32].
Supposing Q1 and Q3 are respectively the first and third quartiles of the distribution of delivery health expenditure of the sample, then a high-spending or outlier household within the group is one for which the value of delivery health expenditure is greater than Q3+k* Q3-Q1), where k is a constant (varied from 0.5, 1 or 1.5).
