Essential components of postnatal care - a systematic literature review and development of signal functions to guide monitoring and evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postnatal Care (PNC) is one of the healthcare-packages in the continuum of care for mothers and children that needs to be in place to reduce global maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. We sought to identify the essential components of PNC and develop signal functions to reflect these which can be used for the monitoring and evaluation of availability and quality of PNC.

Methods

Systematic review of the literature using MESH headings for databases (Cinahl, Cochrane, Global Health, Medline, PubMed, and Web of Science). Papers and reports on content of PNC published from 2000-2020 were included. Narrative synthesis of data and development of signal function through 7 consensus-building workshops with 184 stakeholders.

Results

Forty-Eight papers and

SUBMITTER: McCauley H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9148465 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature