Comparing two data collection methods to track vital events in maternal and child health via community health workers in rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Timely tracking of health outcomes is difficult in low- and middle-income countries without comprehensive vital registration systems. Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly collecting vital events data while delivering routine care in low-resource settings. It is necessary, however, to assess whether routine programmatic data collected by CHWs are sufficiently reliable for timely monitoring and evaluation of health interventions. To study this, we assessed the consistency of vital events data recorded by CHWs using two methodologies-routine data collected while delivering an integrated maternal and child health intervention, and data from a birth history census approach at the same site in rural Nepal.

Methods

We linked individual records from routine pr

SUBMITTER: Choudhury N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9327361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature