Estimating the cost of implementing a facility and community score card for maternal and newborn care service delivery in a rural district in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This paper aimed at estimating the resources required to implement a community Score Card by a typical rural district health team in Uganda, as a mechanism for fostering accountability, utilization and quality of maternal and child healthcare service.

Methods

This costing analysis was done from the payer's perspective using the ingredients approach over five quarterly rounds of scoring between 2017 and 2018. Expenditure data was obtained from project records, entered and analyzed in Microsoft excel. Two scale-up scenarios, scenario one (considered cost inputs by the MakSPH research teams) and scenario two (considering cost inputs based on contextual knowledge from district implementing teams), were simulated to better understand the cost implications of integrat

SUBMITTER: Ssebagereka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7777411 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature