Evaluation protocol to assess maternal and child health outcomes using administrative data: a community health worker home visiting programme.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Emerging evidence suggests community health workers (CHWs) delivering preventive maternal and child health (MCH) interventions through home visiting improve several important health outcomes, including initiation of prenatal care, healthy birth weight and uptake of childhood immunisations. METHODS AND ANALYSIS:The Arizona Health Start Program is a behavioral-based home visiting intervention, which uses CHWs to improve MCH outcomes through health education, referral support, and advocacy services for at-risk pregnant and postpartum women with children up to 2 years of age. We aim to test our central hypothesis that mothers and children exposed to this intervention will experience positive health outcomes in the areas of (1) newborn health; (2) maternal health and healthcare uti

SUBMITTER: Sabo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924704 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature