Out-of-Pocket Costs for Facility-Based Obstetrical Care in Rural Guatemala.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural Indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala have some of the worst obstetrical health outcomes in Latin America, due to widespread discrimination in healthcare and an underfunded public sector. Multiple systems-level efforts to improve facility birth outcomes have been implemented, primarily focusing on early community-based detection of obstetrical complications and on reducing discrimination and improving the quality of facility-level care. However, another important feature of public facility-level care are the out-of-pocket payments that patients are often required to make for care.

Objective

To estimate the burden of out-of-pocket costs for public obstetrical care in Indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective revi

SUBMITTER: Juarez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344954 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature