Can India's primary care facilities deliver? A cross-sectional assessment of the Indian public health system's capacity for basic delivery and newborn services.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess input and process capacity for basic delivery and newborn (intrapartum care hereafter) care in the Indian public health system and to describe differences in facility capacity between rural and urban areas and across states.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Data from the nationally representative 2012-2014 District Level Household and Facility Survey, which includes a census of community health centres (CHC) and sample of primary health centres (PHC) across 30 states and union territories in India.

Participants

8536 PHCs and 4810 CHCs.

Outcome measures

We developed a summative index of 33 structural and process capacity items matching the Indian Public Health Standards for PHCs as a metric of minimum facility capacity for intrap

SUBMITTER: Sharma J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5988146 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature