Health facility service availability and readiness to provide basic emergency obstetric and newborn care in a low-resource setting: evidence from a Tanzania National Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study used a nationally representative sample from Tanzania as an example of low-resource setting with a high burden of maternal and newborn deaths, to assess the availability and readiness of health facilities to provide basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) and its associated factors.

Design

Health facility-based cross-sectional survey.

Setting

We analysed data for obstetric and newborn care services obtained from the 2014-2015 Tanzania Service Provision Assessment survey, using WHO-Service Availability and Readiness Assessment tool.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Availability of seven signal functions was measured based on the provision of 'parental administration of antibiotic', 'parental administration of oxytocic', 'pa

SUBMITTER: Bintabara D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398731 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature