Quality of newborn care: a health facility assessment in rural Ghana using survey, vignette and surveillance data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the structural capacity for, and quality of, immediate and essential newborn care (ENC) in health facilities in rural Ghana, and to link this with demand for facility deliveries and admissions.

Design

Health facility assessment survey and population-based surveillance data.

Setting

Seven districts in Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana.

Participants

Heads of maternal/neonatal wards in all 64 facilities performing deliveries.

Main outcome measures

Indicators include: the availability of essential infrastructure, newborn equipment and drugs, and personnel; vignette scores and adequacy of reasons given for delayed discharge of newborn babies; and prevalence of key immediate ENC practices that facilities should promote. These are matched to the per

SUBMITTER: Vesel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3651975 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature