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Table 3 Maternal, newborn, and child health continuum of care card contents

From: Ghana’s Ensure Mothers and Babies Regular Access to Care (EMBRACE) program: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Contents

Main components

CoC services

Four ANC visits

 

Delivery with skilled birth attendant

 

Three PNC visits

Essential services

Hemoglobin test

 

Malaria drug (IPT)

 

Tetanus toxoid immunization

Blood group and Rhesus factor

Health education

Items for delivery and baby

 

Caregiver

 

Transportation for delivery

Call a health service provider after delivery

 

Early initiate and exclusive breast feeding

 

Family planning counselling

Danger signs

Identification of danger signs during pregnancy

 

Identification of danger signs at delivery and after delivery for mother

 

Identification of danger signs at birth and after birth for newborn

  1. ANC, antenatal care; CoC, Continuum of Care; IPT, Intermittent Preventive Treatment; PNC, postnatal care.