Health facility structure and maternal characteristics related to essential newborn care in Brazil: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the use of the WHO's Essential Newborn Care (ENC) programme items and to investigate how the non-use of such technologies associates with the mothers' characteristics and hospital structure.

Design

A cross-sectional observational health facility assessment.

Setting

This is a secondary analysis of the 'Birth in Brazil' study, a national population-based survey on postnatal women/newborn babies and of 266 publicly and privately funded health facilities (secondary and tertiary level of care).

Participants

Data on 23 894 postnatal women and their newborn babies were analysed.

Main outcome measures

The facility structure was assessed by evaluating the availability of medicines and equipment for perinatal care, a paediatrician on call 24/7

SUBMITTER: Menezes MAS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318520 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature