Authors: Andrea Katryn Blanchard , Tim Colbourn, Audrey Prost, Banadakoppa Manjappa Ramesh, Shajy Isac, John Anthony, Bidyadhar Dehury, Tanja A J Houweling
India’s National Health Mission has trained community health workers called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to visit and counsel women before and after birth. This study aimed to examine whether ASHAs’ third trimester home visits may have contributed to improvements in institutional delivery and reductions in perinatal mortality rates (PMRs) between women with varying education levels. Results showed ASHA home visits during the third trimester of pregnancy were associated with giving birth in public facilities and lower PMR. These outcomes reinforce the role of ASHAs’ home visits in reaching the sustainable development goals of improving maternal and newborn health.
Link: Associations between community health workers’ home visits and education based inequalities in institutional delivery and perinatal mortality in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study
Resource Topic: ASHA, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2021
Region: Asia
Country: India
Publisher May Restrict Access: No