ArticleBMC health services research2021
Quality of maternal and newborn health care in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.
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- Systematic review of the quality of care provided to sick children in Ethiopian health facilities.Journal of global health · 2024Pooled it
- Improving the quality of neonatal health care in Ethiopia: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Quality of comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care services and associated factors among mothers with obstetric emergencies in public hospitals of west shoa zone, central Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study design.SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
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- Assessment of antenatal care quality in Ethiopia: Facility-based study using service provision assessment data.PloS one · 2025Article
- Quality of intrapartum and newborn care in public healthcare facilities of Wolkite town, Central Ethiopia: facility-based cross-sectional study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Adverse maternal outcomes among women who gave birth at public hospitals in eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Newborn morbidities and care procedures at the special newborn care units of Gandaki Province, Nepal: a retrospective study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Perceived quality of maternal care and its barriers based on women's perspective in hospitals of Northwest Ethiopia: a qualitative study.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Interventions to improve the quality of maternal care in Ethiopia: a scoping review.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Magnitude, disparity, and predictors of poor-quality antenatal care service: A systematic review and meta-analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2024Review
- Person-centered abortion care in public health facilities across four regions of Ethiopia: a cross-sectional quantitative study of client experiences.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite reports of universal access to and modest utilization of maternal and newborn health services in Ethiopia, mothers and newborns continue to die from preventable causes. Studies indicate this could be due to poor quality of care provided in health systems. Evidences show that high quality health care prevents more than half of all maternal deaths. In Ethiopia, there is limited knowledge surrounding the status of the quality of maternal and newborn health care in health facilities. This study aims to assess the quality of maternal and neonatal health care provision at the health facility level in four regions in Ethiopia. METHODOLOGY: This study employed a facility-based cross-sectional study design. It included 32 health facilities which were part of the facilities for prototyping maternal and neonatal health quality improvement interventions. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire, key informant interviews and record reviews. Data was entered in Microsoft Excel and exported to STATA for analysis. Descriptive analysis results are presented in texts, tables and graphs. Quality of maternal and neonatal health care was measured by input, process and outputs components. The components were developed by computing scores using standards used to measure the three components of the quality of maternal and neonatal health care.
resultThe study was done in a total of 32 health facilities: 5 hospitals and 27 health centers in four regions. The study revealed that the average value of the quality of the maternal and neonatal health care input component among health facilities was 62%, while the quality of the process component was 43%. The quality of the maternal and neonatal health output component was 48%. According to the standard cut-off point for MNH quality of care, only 5 (15.6%), 3 (9.3%) and 3 (10.7%) of health facilities met the expected input, process and output maternal and neonatal health care quality standards, respectively.
conclusionThis study revealed that the majority of health facilities did not meet the national MNH quality of care standards. Focus should be directed towards improving the input, process and output standards of the maternal and neonatal health care quality, with the strongest focus on process improvement.
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