Assessing capacity of health facilities to provide routine maternal and newborn care in low-income settings: what proportions are ready to provide good-quality care, and what proportions of women receive it?

• Main Authors: Keith Tomlin (Author), Della Berhanu (Author), Meenakshi Gautham (Author), Nasir Umar (Author), Joanna Schellenberg (Author), Deepthi Wickremasinghe (Author), Tanya Marchant (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Good quality maternal and newborn care at primary health facilities is essential, but in settings with high maternal and newborn mortality the evidence for the protective effect of facility delivery is inconsistent. We surveyed samples of health facilities in three settings with...