Transport-related interventions to improve maternal health
Greico and Turner (2005) have developed a toolkit on gender, transport and maternal mortality that provides examples of transport interventions designed to improve access to maternal health services in Senegal, Mali, Malawi, Uganda and Ghana. Most evidence linking transport interventions to successful maternal health outcomes is limited to localised examples. Evidence of sustainable good practice and the successful scaling up of these interventions to country and regional level is scarce (Babinard and Roberts, 2006).
This section presents a brief overview of interventions aimed at addressing some of the transport-related factors that prolong women or their families’ decision to seek care and create obstacles for women in reaching and receiving adequate care.
Interventions aim at doing the following:
- Maternal and child mortality development goals: what can the transport sector do?
- J. Babinard;P. Roberts / World Bank, 2006
- This report published by the World Bank focuses on the role of transport and road infrastructure in the delivery of and access to maternal and child health services, and in the effectiveness of the he...
- Report on current situation in the health sector of Ghana and possible roles of appropriate transport technology and transport related communication interventions
- J. Heyen-Perschon / Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, 2005
- This report, by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, provides data on the health sector in Ghana, with an overview of health trends and health and transport policies the country. I...
