No woman Should Die While Giving Life Does the Health Extension Program Improve Access to Maternal Health Services in Tigray, Ethiopia?

Gebrehiwet, Tesfay Gebregzabher (2015) No woman Should Die While Giving Life Does the Health Extension Program Improve Access to Maternal Health Services in Tigray, Ethiopia? PhD thesis, Umeå University.

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Abstract

Ensuring access to universal primary health care is essential to secure a safe and pleasant motherhood and to provide compassionate care for mothers and newborns. However, inequalities in the access to maternal health services still remain a prominent problem in many countries. As part of reducing inequalities, Ethiopia launched the Health Extension Program (HEP) in 2003. The HEP is a community based program designed with a defined package of essential promotive, preventive and basic curative services targeting households, particularly mothers and children. Despite the construction of over 600 health posts and deploying more than 1200 Health Extension Workers (HEWs), preliminary data suggests a low utilization of maternal health care services. This thesis explores the HEP contribution in improving women’s access to maternal health care, and the reasons for the low use of maternal health care services from the perspectives of the involved actors in the Tigray region in Ethiopia. The five dimensions of access were used as a framework to explore the access to maternal health care utilization in this setting.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	NLANDU Ephraim DIKUIZA
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2016 13:40
Last Modified:	08 Jul 2016 13:40
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/675

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