The Free Caesareans Policy in Low-Income Settings: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis in Mali (2003–2012)

Pierre Fournier; Alexandre Dumont; Caroline Tourigny; Aline Philibert; Aliou Coulibaly; Mamadou Traoré

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105130

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The Free Caesareans Policy in Low-Income Settings: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis in Mali (2003–2012)

Pierre Fournier ,

* E-mail: pierre.fournier@umontreal.ca

Affiliations Research Center of the University of Montreal Hospital (CR-CHUM), Montreal, Canada, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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Alexandre Dumont,

Affiliation Research Institute for Development, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR 216, Paris, France
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Caroline Tourigny,

Affiliation Research Center of the University of Montreal Hospital (CR-CHUM), Montreal, Canada
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Aline Philibert,

Affiliation Research Center of the University of Montreal Hospital (CR-CHUM), Montreal, Canada
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Aliou Coulibaly,

Affiliation Research Center of the University of Montreal Hospital (CR-CHUM), Montreal, Canada
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Mamadou Traoré

Affiliation Unité de recherche et de formation en santé de la mère et de l'enfant (URFOSAME), Referral health center of the Commune V, Bamako, Mali
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The Free Caesareans Policy in Low-Income Settings: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis in Mali (2003–2012)

Pierre Fournier,
Alexandre Dumont,
Caroline Tourigny,
Aline Philibert,
Aliou Coulibaly,
Mamadou Traoré

Published: August 19, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105130

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How implementation studies could be useful

Posted by valery_ridde on 21 Aug 2014 at 23:53 GMT

This paper share very strong and useful evidence about the impact of this free c-section policy. If you are interested to understand a bit more how this policy work (or not) and how the implementation gap could explain some of the mixed findings, see the following book (open access) published last year
http://www.afd.fr/webdav/...
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Competing interests declared: I have/had some research projets with authors of this paper, but I was not involve in this paper.

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