Demand-Side Factors in Maternal Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Community Health Worker Programme in Uganda.

ABSTRACT: While community health workers (CHWs) are a core feature of many low-resource healthcare systems, evidence on both their health impacts and the mechanisms behind these impacts remains limited. Using a difference-in-differences design with a control and treatment group, this study evaluated a CHW programme in southwestern Uganda aimed at improving maternal health outcomes. We found relatively little evidence of an overall programme effect on health behaviours, including antenatal care attendance and delivery under skilled supervision. Analysis of heterogeneity by gestational age at first antenatal visit - which should have modulated exposure to the intervention - provided suggestive evidence that treatment effects varied predictably with gestational age. Altogether, the absence of strong pr

SUBMITTER: Greenberg JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9879266 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature