Buluag, R. I. N. (2015). Maternal care incentive program: A strategy to improve utilization if maternal health care service in Talalora, Samar (Unpublished master's thesis). Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Development Academy of the Philippines.

Graduate School of Public and Development Management Health Systems and Development Batch 5 Thesis (MPM-HSD)--Development Academy of the Philippines.

There has been a perennially low coverage of prenatal care services, FBD, SBA, and postpartum care services in the municipality of Talalora, Samar. The main objective of this study is to implement the Maternal Care Incentive Program MCIP as an adjunct strategy to improve the Maternal Health Care program. The MCIP is an incentive program that utilizes the payments provided by PhilHealth through the Maternal Care Package, with mothers and health worker volunteers as the recipients. Factors contributing to the low utilization of maternal health care services were identified and analyzed to formulate the strategy. The Health Sector Control Knobs approach was used in the analysis and formulation of the MCIP. The indicators used to measure the improvement were the number of mothers with complete and timely prenatal consults, FBD, SBA, and postpartum care visits. The MCIP as a a strategy improve the utilization of maternal health care services in the municipality of Talalora, Samar through the increase in the coverage for prenatal care, FBD, SBA, and postpartum care services.