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Impact of free delivery policy on utilization of maternal health services in county referral hospitals in Kenya

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, June 2017
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Title
Impact of free delivery policy on utilization of maternal health services in county referral hospitals in Kenya
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12913-017-2376-z
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Authors

John Njuguna, Njoroge Kamau, Charles Muruka

Abstract

Kenya has a high maternal mortality rate. Provision of skilled delivery plays a major role in reducing maternal mortality. Cost is a hindrance to the utilization of skilled delivery. The Government of Kenya introduced a policy of free delivery services in government facilities beginning June 2013. We sought to determine the impact of this intervention on facility based deliveries in Kenya. We compared deliveries and antenatal attendance in 47 county referral hospitals and 30 low cost private hospitals not participating in the free delivery policy for 2013 and 2014 respectively. The data was extracted from the Kenya Health Information System. Multiple regression was done to assess factors influencing increase in number of deliveries among the county referral hospitals. The number of deliveries and antenatal attendance increased by 26.8% and 16.2% in county referral hospitals and decreased by 11.9% and 5.4% respectively in low cost private hospitals. Increase in deliveries among county referral hospitals was influenced by population size of county and type of county referral hospital. Counties with level 5 hospitals recorded more deliveries compared to those with level 4 hospitals. This intervention increased the number of facility based deliveries. Policy makers may consider incorporating low cost private hospitals so as to increase the coverage of this intervention.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 157 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 39 25%
Researcher 23 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 10%
Student > Bachelor 15 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Other 16 10%
Unknown 38 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 32 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 30 19%
Social Sciences 16 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Other 23 15%
Unknown 42 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 October 2017.
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#4,534,538
of 22,982,639 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,138
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#80,292
of 316,862 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#55
of 136 outputs
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