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Education for Empowerment and Change - Perinatal Mortality 50% lower

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Strategy researched
 
Information and education for empowerment and change (IEEC) for women and their husbands, training of birth attendants, and provision of telecommunication and transportation services for women
 
Impact achieved
 
Country of study
 
Pakistan
 
Research methodology
 
Community randomized trial; 32 village clusters, 900 households, 2,561 pregnant women
 
Journal
 
Reproductive Health; 2010
 
Journal paper title and link
 
Impact of community-based interventions on maternal and neonatal health indicators: Results from a community randomized trial in rural Balochistan, Pakistan
 
Excerpt from Abstract
 
"Pregnant women in intervention clusters received prenatal care and prophylactic iron therapy more frequently than pregnant women in control clusters. Providing safe motherhood education to husbands resulted in further improvement of some indicators. There was a small but significant increase in percent of hospital deliveries but no impact on the use of skilled birth attendants. Perinatal mortality reduced significantly in clusters where only wives received information and education in safe motherhood. The survey to assess residual impact showed similar results."
 
Abstract at this link

 

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