Barriers to the utilization of community-based child and newborn health services in Ethiopia: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and partners have scaled up integrated community case management (iCCM) and community-based newborn care (CBNC), allowing health extension workers (HEWs) to manage the major causes of child and newborn death at the community level. However, low service uptake remains a key challenge. We conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature to assess barriers to the utilization of HEW services and to explore potential solutions. The review, which was conducted to inform the Optimizing the Health Extension Program project, which aimed to increase the utilization of iCCM and CBNC services, included 24 peer-reviewed articles and 18 grey literature documents. Demand-side barriers to utilization included lack of knowledge about the signs and sym

SUBMITTER: Miller NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8496769 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature