Impact of HPSP and HPNSP on Health Status of Rural Children in Bangladesh

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The aim of this article is to highlight how to develop frameworks for the estimation of associations between broad health programs and the health variables and their impact on the distribution of health by applying the methods of difference-in-differences and decomposition of inequality indices. Data that has been used were collected by the Measures DHS in four waves: 1996-1997, 1999- 2000, 2004 and 2007-08 (DHS 20 II). The broad health policy, the study has used is a set of two consecutive policies: the Health and Population Sector Program (HPSP) that was introduced in Bangladesh in 1998 and the Health, Population and Nutrition Sector Program (HPNSP) which was introduced in 2003. Both policies offered greater importance to the health needs of those children living in rural areas compared to that of those who resided in urban areas. The article focuses that aforementioned policies are actually a success in terms of reducing inequality measured by infant death in urban and rural areas and thus recommends extension of such programs.

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Volume: 
68
Issue: 
01
Page: 
119-140
Article Identifier: 
884