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

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

Indicators	Intervention Districts	Comparison districts	Source
Socio-Demographic indicators			Census 2011
Population (total)	2,148,061	2,507,706
Literacy rate (%)	63	70
Proportion Households having Monthly income Less than Rs. 5000)	67	63
Maternal & child health indicators			Annual Survey, 2012–2013
Institutional deliveries (%) Rural	77	79
Mothers who received any Antenatal check-up (%)	49	52
Children breastfed within one hour of birth (%)	55	63
NMR Rural (per 1000 live births)	39∙67	40.71∙
Pregnancy and Child Tracking System (PCTS,)			PCTS 2011–2012
Delivery load (Annual)	120,480	108,887
SBR per 1000 births (for 34 study facilities)^a	23∙45	24∙10
Rapid assessment survey by Jhpiego (district data)			2012
Infrastructure (%)
Electricity backup	88	89
Running water for hand-washing	87	89
Availability of blood bank and blood storage	15	21
Human Resource (compared against Indian Public Health Standard %)
At District Hospitals
Specialists (Obstetrician/Gynecologist)	100	93
Pediatrician	112	93
Staff nurses	30	43
At Community Health Centres
Specialists (Obstetrician/Gynecologist)	15	31
Pediatrician	30	33
Staff nurses	59	52
Staff nurses and ANMs trained in skill birth attendant (SBA)	19	20
Availability of Oxytocin	97	95
Magnesium sulphate	18	20

^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

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