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Table 1 Comparison of Intervention and Comparison Districts for Safe Childbirth Checklist Intervention, at Baseline (2011–12)

From: Does the safe childbirth checklist (SCC) program save newborn lives? Evidence from a realistic quasi-experimental study, Rajasthan, India

Indicators

Intervention Districts

Comparison districts

Source

Socio-Demographic indicators

Ā Ā 

Census 2011

Population (total)

2,148,061

2,507,706

Ā 

Literacy rate (%)

63

70

Ā 

Proportion Households having Monthly income Less than Rs. 5000)

67

63

Ā 

Maternal & child health indicators

Ā Ā 

Annual Survey, 2012–2013

Institutional deliveries (%) Rural

77

79

Ā 

Mothers who received any Antenatal check-up (%)

49

52

Ā 

Children breastfed within one hour of birth (%)

55

63

Ā 

NMR Rural (per 1000 live births)

39āˆ™67

40.71āˆ™

Ā 

Pregnancy and Child Tracking System (PCTS,)

Ā Ā 

PCTS 2011–2012

Delivery load (Annual)

120,480

108,887

Ā 

SBR per 1000 births (for 34 study facilities)a

23āˆ™45

24āˆ™10

Ā 

Rapid assessment survey by Jhpiego (district data)

2012

Infrastructure (%)

ā€ƒElectricity backup

88

89

Ā 

ā€ƒRunning water for hand-washing

87

89

Ā 

ā€ƒAvailability of blood bank and blood storage

15

21

Ā 

Human Resource (compared against Indian Public Health Standard %)

ā€ƒAt District Hospitals

ā€ƒā€ƒSpecialists (Obstetrician/Gynecologist)

100

93

Ā 

ā€ƒā€ƒPediatrician

112

93

ā€ƒā€ƒStaff nurses

30

43

ā€ƒAt Community Health Centres

ā€ƒā€ƒSpecialists (Obstetrician/Gynecologist)

15

31

Ā 

ā€ƒā€ƒPediatrician

30

33

ā€ƒā€ƒStaff nurses

59

52

Staff nurses and ANMs trained in skill birth attendant (SBA)

19

20

Ā 

Availability of Oxytocin

97

95

Ā 

Magnesium sulphate

18

20

  1. aStillbirths for one sub-district facility is not recorded in system due to some acknowledged technical issues, thus was extrapolated using stillbirth rates for that facility from our data