Methods | Sources of Data | Sample size | Variables examined |
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In Depth interviews | Perceptions of the policy (content, implementation, effects) | Â | History of the implementation; challenges and difficulties information communication, process of funding, relation between stakeholders, quality of care |
District Health Managers | 10 | ||
Health workers | 16 | ||
COGES | 11 | ||
 | TBAs | 7 |  |
Focus Groups | Patients, Communities (men; CHW, TBA) | 62 (8 to 10 persons for each focus group) | Partograph, audits of maternal deaths, costs associated with childbirth (formal and informal payments) barriers to access to health care, quality of care |
Documents | Maternal deaths audits, guidelines, register of birth, sheet management, ethnography of the locality | 21 audits of maternal deaths 1 guideline registers of birth from 6 health center from 2007 to 2010 | Causes of maternal deaths, delays, distance between health centres and district hospital, timing of the ambulance, components of the health policy, process of funding, tasks and responsibilities of each actor, number of births in health centres |
2 ethnography of the locality | |||
Observations | Curative and prenatal consultations, assisted deliveries, vaccinations, distribution of nets | Observations were carried out in 6 health centres (from 7 to 10 days were spent in each health centre) | Interaction between health workers and communities (patients, communities, CHWs, TBAs) |