Effective coverage of essential antenatal care interventions: A cross-sectional study of public primary healthcare clinics in the West Bank.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The proportion of women attending four or more antenatal care (ANC) visits is widely used for monitoring, but provides limited information on quality of care. Effective coverage metrics, assessing if ANC interventions are completely delivered, can identify critical gaps in healthcare service delivery. We aimed to measure coverage of at least one screening and effective coverage of ANC interventions in the public health system in the West Bank, Palestine, and to explore associations between infrastructure-related and maternal sociodemographic variables and effective coverage.

Methods

We used data from paper-based clinical records of 1369 pregnant women attending ANC in 17 primary healthcare clinics. Infrastructure-related variables were derived from a 2014 national

SUBMITTER: Venkateswaran M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6386267 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature