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Abstract
A project to improve the quality of maternal health services was carried out over a 3-year period in West Kiang district, Gambia. Coverage of maternal care was strengthened through upgrading of personnel, TBA training, improved treatment and referral schemes, and increased numbers of visits to rural outreach areas. A control district was used to compare the impact of the interventions. During the project period of 3 years a single maternal death was registered in the intervention district, and 5 in the control area. While improved staffing and service provision led to higher degrees of coverage of maternal care services, reductions in maternal morbidity could not be documented in the intervention area. Given concern over the quality of the data possibly influencing this result, further research is necessary to determine the relationship between improved mobile maternal care services and their impact on maternal morbidity and perinatal outcome.Entities:
Keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Case Control Studies; Delivery Of Health Care; Developing Countries; English Speaking Africa; Evaluation; Evaluation Report; Gambia; Health; Health Facilities; Health Services; Health Services Evaluation; Maternal-child Health Services; Mobile Health Units; Operations Research; Organization And Administration; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Outcomes; Primary Health Care; Program Evaluation; Programs; Reproduction; Research Methodology; Studies; Western Africa
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Year: 1995 PMID： 7571704
Source DB: PubMed Journal: World Health Stat Q ISSN： 0379-8070