The child survival impact of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program: A health systems strengthening plausibility trial in Northern Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Ghana Health Service in collaboration with partner institutions implemented a five-year primary health systems strengthening program known as the Ghana Essential Health Intervention Program (GEHIP). GEHIP was a plausibility trial implemented in an impoverished region of northern Ghana around the World Health Organizations (WHO) six pillars combined with community engagement, leadership development and grassroots political support, the program organized a program of training and action focused on strategies for saving newborn lives and community-engaged emergency referral services. This paper analyzes the effect of the GEHIP program on child survival.

Methods

Birth history data assembled from baseline and endline surveys are used to assess the hazard of child m

SUBMITTER: Bawah AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561634 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature