How Can Childbirth Care for the Rural Poor Be Improved? A Contribution from Spatial Modelling in Rural Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Maternal and perinatal mortality remain a challenge in resource-limited countries, particularly among the rural poor. To save lives at birth health facility delivery is recommended. However, increasing coverage of institutional deliveries may not translate into mortality reduction if shortage of qualified staff and lack of enabling working conditions affect quality of services. In Tanzania childbirth care is available in all facilities; yet maternal and newborn mortality are high. The study aimed to assess in a high facility density rural context whether a health system organization with fewer delivery sites is feasible in terms of population access.

Methods

Data on health facilities' location, staffing and delivery caseload were examined in Ludewa and Iringa Di

SUBMITTER: Fogliati P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4589408 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature