Evaluation of systems reform in public hospitals, Victoria, Australia, to improve access to antenatal care for women of refugee background: An interrupted time series design.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Inequalities in maternal and newborn health persist in many high-income countries, including for women of refugee background. The Bridging the Gap partnership programme in Victoria, Australia, was designed to find new ways to improve the responsiveness of universal maternity and early child health services for women and families of refugee background with the codesign and implementation of iterative quality improvement and demonstration initiatives. One goal of this 'whole-of-system' approach was to improve access to antenatal care. The objective of this paper is to report refugee women's access to hospital-based antenatal care over the period of health system reforms.

Methods and findings

The study was designed using an interrupted time series analysis using ro

SUBMITTER: Yelland J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7351141 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature