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Table 1 Proportions of expected births delivering in the health centres in intervention and control catchment populations before (2015) and after the intervention (2019)

From: Improving access to emergency obstetric care in underserved rural Tanzania: a prospective cohort study

Health Centre

2015

2019

Catchment population

Expected birthsa

Number and proportions of all births in the HC

Catchment population

Expected births

Number and proportions of all births in the HC

Intervention HCs

 St. Joseph

33,569

1125

559 (50%)

40,027

1265

2069 (164%)

 Ngerengere

14,000

469

282 (60%)

20,000

632

438 (69%)

 Kibati

8900

298

232 (78%)

10,183

322

585 (182%)

 Melela

9542

320

162 (51%)

8649

273

334 (122%)

 Gairob

35,972

1205

892 (74%)

40,017

1265

2388 (189%)

 Total

101,983

3417

2127 (62%)

118,876

3757

5814 (155%)

Control HCs

 Mkamba

7586

254

892 (351%)

8861

280

1146 (409%)

 Mlimba

45,000

1508

1899 (126%)

52,000

1643

3273 (199%)

 Total

52,586

1762

2791 (158%)

60,861

1923

4419 (230%)

  1. aNote: expected births were computed from the catchment populations using the crude birth rates of 33.5 births per 1000 population in 2015 and 31.6 births per 1000 population in 2019 in Morogoro region [17]. bGairo catchment population is based on the projections of Gairo ward from the 2012 National Census [18]