Evidence · Systematic review or meta-analysis
Cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the utilization and provision of maternal and newborn health care in low-income and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review.
- Breast milk and breastfeeding
- Families and professional practice
- Medical
- Nursing
- Postnatal and transitional care
- Quality improvement
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Summary
This systematic review examines the cost-effectiveness of behavioural and health systems strategies to improve the utilisation and provision of maternal and newborn care in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. It included 48 publications reporting 43 studies, assessed using the CHEERS statement, and compared incremental costs per life-year saved or DALY averted with GDP per capita. Reasonably strong evidence supported women's groups, home-based newborn care by community health workers and traditional birth attendants, enhanced antenatal care, facility-based quality improvement, and breastfeeding promotion in maternity hospitals. The evidence base was limited by few high-quality studies and disparate outcome measures.
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