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The effect of Kenya’s free maternal health care policy on the utilization of health facility delivery services and maternal and neonatal mortality in public health facilities

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, March 2018
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Title
The effect of Kenya’s free maternal health care policy on the utilization of health facility delivery services and maternal and neonatal mortality in public health facilities
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12884-018-1708-2
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Authors

C. M. Gitobu, P. B. Gichangi, W. O. Mwanda

Abstract

Kenya abolished delivery fees in all public health facilities through a presidential directive effective on June 1, 2013 with an aim of promoting health facility delivery service utilization and reducing pregnancy-related mortality in the country. This paper aims to provide a brief overview of this policy's effect on health facility delivery service utilization and maternal mortality ratio and neonatal mortality rate in Kenyan public health facilities. A time series analysis was conducted on health facility delivery services utilization, maternal and neonatal mortality 2 years before and after the policy intervention in 77 health facilities across 14 counties in Kenya. A statistically significant increase in the number of facility-based deliveries was identified with no significant changes in the ratio of maternal mortality and the rate of neonatal mortality. The findings suggest that cost is a deterrent to health facility delivery service utilization in Kenya and thus free delivery services are an important strategy to promote utilization of health facility delivery services; however, there is a need to simultaneously address other factors that contribute to pregnancy-related and neonatal deaths.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 347 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 94 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 11%
Researcher 33 10%
Student > Postgraduate 17 5%
Student > Bachelor 17 5%
Other 54 16%
Unknown 95 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 72 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 69 20%
Social Sciences 26 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 3%
Other 58 17%
Unknown 101 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 03 April 2018.
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#2,215,959
of 25,292,378 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#578
of 4,738 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#45,633
of 336,163 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#13
of 98 outputs
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