Improving maternal and newborn health services in Northeast Nigeria through a government-led partnership of stakeholders: a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to quantify change in the coverage, quality and equity of essential maternal and newborn healthcare interventions in Gombe state, Northeast Nigeria, following a four year, government-led, maternal and newborn health intervention.

Design

Quasi-experimental plausibility study. Repeat cross-sectional household and linked health facility surveys were implemented in intervention and comparison areas.

Setting

Gombe state, Northeast Nigeria.

Participants

Each household survey included a sample of 1000 women aged 13-49 years with a live birth in the previous 12 months. Health facility surveys comprised a readiness assessment and birth attendant interview.

Interventions

Between 2016-2019 a complex package of evidence-based intervention

SUBMITTER: Willey B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808391 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature