scholarly journals Contribution of women’s development army to maternal and child health in Ethiopia: a systematic review of evidence

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. e025937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiddus Yitbarek ◽  
Gelila Abraham ◽  
Sudhakar Morankar
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Immunisation Service ◽  
And Child Health

ObjectiveThe aim of this review was to identify, appraise and synthesise studies that reported on the contribution of women’s development army (WDA) to maternal and child health development.SettingStudies conducted in Ethiopia 2010 onwards and published in English were considered.Data sourcesEvidence were searched in MEDLINE, CINAHL and EBSCOhost from 25 March to 10 April 2018.Eligibility criteriaBoth quantitative and qualitative studies assessing the contribution of WDA to maternal and child health were considered.Data extraction and synthesisTwo independent reviewers have extracted data using pre-planned data extraction tool separately for each study design. Findings were synthesised using tables and narrative summary.OutcomeMaternal and child health services; maternal and child mortality.ResultsNine studies met the inclusion criteria and were used for synthesis. The results revealed that participation and membership in women’s development teams (WDTs) have a positive effect on minimising maternal death and improving child immunisation service use. Skilled delivery and antenatal care service use were higher in WDTs located within a radius of 2 km from health facilities. Women’s development teams were also the main sources of information for mothers to prepare themselves for birth and related complications. Moreover, well-established groups have strengthened the linkage of the health facility to the community so that delays in maternal health service use were minimised; health extension workers could effectively refer women to a health facility for birth and utilisation of skilled birth service was improved.ConclusionVoluntary health service intervention in Ethiopia has improved maternal and child health services’ outcome. A decrease in maternal deaths, increase in antenatal and delivery service use and improved child immunisation service uptake are attributable to this intervention. The linkage between community members and the primary healthcare system served as an effective and efficient mechanism to share information.

No effects of pilot performance-based intervention implementation and withdrawal on the coverage of maternal and child health services in the Koulikoro region, Mali: an interrupted time series analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-387
Author(s):  
David Zombré ◽  
Manuela De Allegri ◽  
Valéry Ridde
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Child Health Service ◽  
Health Centres ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Child Health

Abstract Performance-based financing (PBF) has been promoted and increasingly implemented across low- and middle-income countries to increase the utilization and quality of primary health care. However, the evidence of the impact of PBF is mixed and varies substantially across settings. Thus, further rigorous investigation is needed to be able to draw broader conclusions about the effects of this health financing reform. We examined the effects of the implementation and subsequent withdrawal of the PBF pilot programme in the Koulikoro region of Mali on a range of relevant maternal and child health indicators targeted by the programme. We relied on a control interrupted time series design to examine the trend in maternal and child health service utilization rates prior to the PBF intervention, during its implementation and after its withdrawal in 26 intervention health centres. The results for these 26 intervention centres were compared with those for 95 control health centres, with an observation window that covered 27 quarters. Using a mixed-effects negative binomial model combined with a linear spline regression model and covariates adjustment, we found that neither the introduction nor the withdrawal of the pilot PBF programme bore a significant impact in the trend of maternal and child health service use indicators in the Koulikoro region of Mali. The absence of significant effects in the health facilities could be explained by the context, by the weaknesses in the intervention design and by the causal hypothesis and implementation. Further inquiry is required in order to provide policymakers and practitioners with vital information about the lack of effects detected by our quantitative analysis.

scholarly journals Factors affecting the choice of maternal and child health services in a rural area of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-269
Author(s):  
Nosa N. A. Al Nahedh
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Child Health Service ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
And Child Health

Thistudy examines factors affecting the choice of maternal and child health services in a rural area in Saudi Arabia. A house-to-house survey of 329 women in Al-Oyaynah village, north-west of Riyadh city, was carried out to determine the maternal factors associated with this choice. The variables examined included age, duration of marriage, education, occupation, income, parity and husband’s education. The analysis showed that distance from the health service, education of the mother and her age were the strongest determinants of the choice of maternal child health service used

scholarly journals The Effect of Accessibility on Performance of Maternal and Child Health Policy Implementation in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Tat Florentianus ◽  
Bait M. Maria
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Service Accessibility ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Child Health

BACKGROUND: The fact shows that the performance of health service policy implementation from the output aspect (out put) and the outcome (out comes) policy has not been in line with expectations. This condition will also have a direct influence on the Human Development Index in East Nusa Tenggara Province, where the position of East Nusa Tenggara is still in the order of 32 out of 34 provinces in Indonesia, which ranges from 68.77. The main purpose of this study was to identify the health service accessibility in East Nusa Tenggara. Furthermore, this study also intended to find out the performance of policy implementation and was to identify the effect of accessibility of health sevices on the performance of policy implementation on mothers and children in East Nusa Tenggara. SUBJECT & METHOD: This research is a quantitative study, conducted in 11 districts, 104 community healths services, and has 235 health workers as respondents in East Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia. RESULT: The results of the study on conditions of accessibility and networking in maternal and child health services in East Nusa Tenggara Province are still lacking (mean 2.7), meaning that conditions of accessibility in East Nusa Tenggara Province do not support the implementation of MCH policies. The performance of MCH policy implementation in East Nusa Tenggara Province is in the 3.36 category, meaning that the targets of MCH services that have been made have not been maximally realized. There is a correlation between accessibility conditions and the performance of MCH policy implementation (p = 0.00), the correlation coefficient of 0.429 shows that this correlation is quite strong, although not very strong. This correlation shows a positive relationship which means that if the accessibility conditions are easier, it will improve the performance of MCH policy implementation. The effect of accessibility on policy performance has been carried out partial linear regression test (t test), found t count = 19.0115 > t table 1.97 means that there is a significant influence on the condition of accessibility to the performance of MCH policies in East Nusa Tenggara Province. CONCLUSION: Accessibility to health services in East Nusa Tenggara Province is still lacking, the policy implementation performance is good and there is a significant and positive influence between service accessibility and policy implementation performance. RECOMENDATION: The government is expected to be more serious in efforts to open the accessibility of health services and set more realistic targets that could be achieved.

scholarly journals Measuring coverage of maternal and child health services using routine health facility data: a Sierra Leone case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdoulaye Maïga ◽  
Agbessi Amouzou ◽  
Moussa Bagayoko ◽  
Cheikh M. Faye ◽  
Safia S. Jiwani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Institutional Delivery ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Child Health Service ◽  
Immunization Service ◽  
And Child Health

Abstract Background There are limited existing approaches to generate estimates from Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) data, despite the growing interest to these data. We calculated and assessed the consistency of maternal and child health service coverage estimates from RHIS data, using census-based and health service-based denominators in Sierra Leone. Methods We used Sierra Leone 2016 RHIS data to calculate coverage of first antenatal care contact (ANC1), institutional delivery and diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus 3 (DPT3) immunization service provision. For each indicator, national and district level coverages were calculated using denominators derived from two census-based and three health service-based methods. We compared the coverage estimates from RHIS data to estimates from MICS 2017. We considered the agreement adequate when estimates from RHIS fell within the 95% confidence interval of the survey estimate. Results We found an overall poor consistency of the coverage estimates calculated from the census-based methods. ANC1 and institutional delivery coverage estimates from these methods were greater than 100% in about half of the fourteen districts, and only 3 of the 14 districts had estimates consistent with the survey data. Health service-based methods generated better estimates. For institutional delivery coverage, five districts met the agreement criteria using BCG service-based method. We found better agreement for DPT3 coverage estimates using DPT1 service-based method as national coverage was close to survey data, and estimates were consistent for 8 out of 14 districts. DPT3 estimates were consistent in almost half of the districts (6/14) using ANC1 service-based method. Conclusion The study highlighted the challenge in determining an appropriate denominator for RHIS-based coverage estimates. Systematic and transparent data quality check and correction, as well as rigorous approaches to determining denominators are key considerations to generate accurate coverage statistics using RHIS data.

Child Saving and Child Spacing in Africa: The Evolution of a Concept

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-768
Author(s):  
Robert D. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Child Death ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Low Visibility ◽  
Child Spacing ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Child Health

In tropical Africa the primordial presence of enormous young child death rates precludes a successful frontal attack on birth rates through specialized programs. Experience in Nigeria indicates that gradual, quiet pressure can influence the power structure to tolerate and eventually espouse child spacing as an integral part of a program of services for child saving. The approach involves four phases: a low visibility start; obtaining high level acceptance; establishment of a federal training center to train cadres for state training programs; and deployment of trained primary care auxiliaries as a local maternal and child health-family planning service. In tropical Africa governmental attitudes toward family planning range from positive policy, to neutrality, to strong opposition. At present most Anglophone countries are favorable. Most Francophone countries are opposed. The general trend is toward a more favorable attitude toward family planning when it is a part of maternal and child health services.

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