Where do the rural poor deliver when high coverage of health facility delivery is achieved? Findings from a community and hospital survey in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As part of maternal mortality reducing strategies, coverage of delivery care among sub-Saharan African rural poor will improve, with a range of facilities providing services. Whether high coverage will benefit all socio-economic groups is unknown. Iringa rural District, Southern Tanzania, with high facility delivery coverage, offers a paradigm to address this question. Delivery services are available in first-line facilities (dispensaries, health centres) and one hospital. We assessed whether all socio-economic groups access the only comprehensive emergency obstetric care facility equally, and surveyed existing delivery services.

Methods

District population characteristics were obtained from a household community survey (n = 463). A Hospital survey collected dat

SUBMITTER: Straneo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4252065 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature