Health layering of self-help groups: impacts on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition in Bihar, India

Mehta KM, Irani L, Chaudhuri I, et al. 2020. Health layering of self-help groups: impacts on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition in Bihar, India. Journal of Global Health. 10:2. 17pp. DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.021007

Self-help group (SHG) interventions have been widely studied in low and middle income countries. However, there is little data on specific impacts of health layering, or adding health modules education upon existing SHGs which were formed primarily for economic empowerment. We examined three SHG interventions from 2012-2017 in Bihar, India to test the hypothesis that health-layering of SHGs would lead to improved health-related behaviours of women in SHGs.