NGO-promoted women's credit program, immunization coverage, and child mortality in rural Bangladesh.
A growing number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are adopting the collateral-free credit programs by anchoring them with their social development programs aimed at improved program effectiveness and sustainability. Drawing upon a sample of 3,564 targeted poor households covered by five small NGOs in rural Bangladesh, this study finds that the NGO credit-members as well as those who reside in the NGO program area are higher adopters of child immunization than those in the non-program area. Similarly, the study found that infant and child mortality is lower among the NGO credit members than among the non-members and that under five-year deaths of children progressively decline with the increase in the doses of vaccines. Implications of these findings are discussed in the study.
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Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21239, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D001459:Bangladesh; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization / Q000592:standards*; D007182:Income; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D015397:Program Evaluation; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014837:Voluntary Health Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*