Table 2 Guide for extracting data and emergent themes
Content of interest | Themes which emerged |
|---|---|
 • Demographic, socio-cultural, economic, country context  • Health indicators  • Health system characteristics  • Policy  • Community characteristics | General characteristics of context and MWH |
 • Timeline | |
 • General equity considerations (e.g. gender, ethnic, racial, marginalized and vulnerable populations) | |
 • Assumptions, theory of change, models or frameworks used to guide program design and implementation | Definition or description of MWH, and hypothesis or reasoning for establishment of MWH |
 • Program context (key actors, organizations, participants, implementing partners, & who did what, who initiated the program) | Administrative set-up and maintenance of MWH |
 • Monitoring and evaluation system characteristics | |
 • Cost of intervention, financial considerations (e.g. incentives, compensation), source of funding | |
 • Structural and financial support and considerations (organizational systems, training/education and support for implementers/actors/participants) | |
 • Description of approach/intervention (process used) | Description of physical facilities, utilities provided and infrastructure of MWH (e.g. bed size, number of rooms, cooking, sanitation facilities) |
Health related activities at the MWH (e.g. health education, training, antenatal care, income generation) | |
 • Inhibiting factors, challenges and enhancing factors | Barriers and enabling factors related to MWH based on perceptions of (a) community (b) health workers (c) authors of articles |
 • Sustainability |