Capacities of women and men to improve maternal and newborn health: Effect of a community-based intervention package in rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite improvement in recent decades, maternal and newborn mortality in Bangladesh remain high. A community-based intervention package was initiated in 2009 in Netrokona, a rural district in Bangladesh, to engage individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health. In this article, we present the effect of the intervention package on improvement of women's capacities with regard to maternal and newborn health, their husbands' capacities to effectively support them and use of skilled services during pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth.

Methods

We adopted a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effect of the intervention package. A cross-sectional household survey was conducted in the intervention and comparison sites at baseline

SUBMITTER: Rahman AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318832 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature