Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?

The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is very high. In Ghana maternal mortality ratio was 380 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, yet in 2010 only 68 percent of mothers in Ghana gave birth with t...

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Main Authors:	Sakeah, Evelyn, McCloskey, Lois, Bernstein, Judith, Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo, Mills, Samuel, Doctor, Henry V.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	BioMed Central 2015
Subjects:	community-based service delivery maternal mortality skilled birth attendance
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23144

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spelling	okr-10986-231442021-04-23T14:04:13Z Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana? Sakeah, Evelyn McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel Doctor, Henry V. community-based service delivery maternal mortality skilled birth attendance The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is very high. In Ghana maternal mortality ratio was 380 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, yet in 2010 only 68 percent of mothers in Ghana gave birth with the assistance of skilled birth attendants. In 2005, the Ghana Health Service piloted a strategy that involved using the integrated Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) program and training Community Health Officers (CHOs) as midwives to address the gap in skilled attendance in rural Upper East Region (UER). The study assesses the feasibility of and extent to which the skilled delivery program has been implemented as an integrated component of the existing CHPS, and documents the benefits and challenges of the integrated program. We employed an intrinsic case study design with a qualitative methodology. We conducted 41 in-depth interviews with health professionals and community stakeholders. We used a purposive sampling technique to identify and interview our respondents. 2015-11-25T17:59:23Z 2015-11-25T17:59:23Z 2014-12-17 Journal Article Reproductive Health http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23144 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank BioMed Central Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Ghana
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spellingShingle	community-based service delivery maternal mortality skilled birth attendance Sakeah, Evelyn McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel Doctor, Henry V. Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?
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description	The burden of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is very high. In Ghana maternal mortality ratio was 380 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013. Skilled birth attendance has been shown to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, yet in 2010 only 68 percent of mothers in Ghana gave birth with the assistance of skilled birth attendants. In 2005, the Ghana Health Service piloted a strategy that involved using the integrated Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) program and training Community Health Officers (CHOs) as midwives to address the gap in skilled attendance in rural Upper East Region (UER). The study assesses the feasibility of and extent to which the skilled delivery program has been implemented as an integrated component of the existing CHPS, and documents the benefits and challenges of the integrated program. We employed an intrinsic case study design with a qualitative methodology. We conducted 41 in-depth interviews with health professionals and community stakeholders. We used a purposive sampling technique to identify and interview our respondents.
format	Journal Article
author	Sakeah, Evelyn McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel Doctor, Henry V.
author_facet	Sakeah, Evelyn McCloskey, Lois Bernstein, Judith Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo Mills, Samuel Doctor, Henry V.
author_sort	Sakeah, Evelyn
title	Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?
title_short	Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?
title_full	Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?
title_fullStr	Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?
title_full_unstemmed	Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?
title_sort	can community health officer-midwives effectively integrate skilled birth attendance in the community-based health planning and services program in rural ghana?
publisher	BioMed Central
publishDate	2015
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23144
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Can Community Health Officer-Midwives Effectively Integrate Skilled Birth Attendance in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Program in Rural Ghana?

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