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Item Restricted Effectivity of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program on maternal health care of the beneficiaries(2018-05) Tulauan, Nerie Angelie T. ; Ybañez, Patricia Mae L. ; Jandoc, Karl Robert L.Maternal health is the health status of a woman during pregnancy, childbirth, and postnatal period. According to the World Health Organization, hemorrhage, infection, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion, and obstructed labor are the major direct causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Partly to address this problem in the Philippines, the government has created the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program to expand utilization of maternal health care services for its beneficiaries, particularly the poor households. This study uses the 2013 round of National Demographic and Health Survey and employ Propensity Score Matching (PSM) in order to assess outcome differences between Pantawid household beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. The results show that the covariates are consistent with the program’s targeting mechanism in which among the 32 covariates, 11 are statistically significant (at the 1 percent level). The results also show that being a Pantawid beneficiary significantly improves the maternal and neonatal health of the recipients through continuous utilization of proper maternal health care services required by the program but facility-based delivery and delivery assistance by skilled health birth attendants were not significantly improved by the program.