Table 1.
Country context.
Table 2.
Community worker characteristics and home visit schedule, content, and incentives.
Table 3.
Distribution of independent variables1.
Figure 1.
Proportion of mothers1 and newborns receiving CHW home visits in the first week after birth.
This figure shows the percent of mothers and newborns that received a home visit from a community health worker within 0–3 days after birth and 4–7 days after birth in each of the 3 countries included in the analysis – Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal. 1In Nepal, separate questions were asked about postnatal care for the mother and newborn. The woman was asked about only the first two post-discharge checks on her health, but was asked about the first three post-discharge checks for her newborn. Thus the percentage of women visited at home within three days after the birth appears lower than the percentage of newborns visited (41.3% versus 49.6%). Therefore, questions on post-discharge care for the baby were used to calculate the dependent variable in Nepal.
Table 4.
Newborn care content of postnatal home visits within 3 days after delivery.
Table 5.
Relative risk for receiving a postnatal home visit within 3 days after birth.