Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal health service utilisation and outcomes in Mozambique: an interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To measure the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal health services and outcomes in Mozambique.

Design

This is an observational study analysing routine service delivery data using interrupted time series analysis. We used 43 months of district-level panel data with April 2020 as the point of interruption, adjusting for seasonality and population growth to analyse service utilisation outcomes.

Setting

The 222 public health facilities in Nampula Province, Mozambique, from January 2018 to July 2021.

Outcome measures

The change in the number of antenatal care (ANC) visits and facility deliveries, and the change in the rate of adverse birth outcomes at pandemic onset and over time compared with expected levels and trends, respectivel

SUBMITTER: Lydon MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9670093 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature