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Table 2 Maternal health services and outpatients’ department users before and during the interventions, Oyam District, 2013–2014

From: Effects of demand-side incentives in improving the utilisation of delivery services in Oyam District in northern Uganda: a quasi-experimental study

Indicator

Baby kits n (%)

Transport vouchers n (%)

Control (Agulurude HC III)

Intervention (Ngai HC III)

Control (Amwa HC II)

Intervention (Atipe + Alao HC IIs)

2013

2014

2013

2014

2013

2014

2013

2014

Catchment population

21,832

29,375

24,959

33,582

8649

11,637

25,878

26,235

No. of expected deliveries

950

1263

1086

1444

376

500

1126

1128

Four ANC visits

 n (%) from catchment area

284 (77.0)

525 (72.6)

235 (78.3)

519 (90.4)

152 (70.7)

220 (75.6)

125 (92.6)

738 (89.5)

 n (%) bypassing

85 (23.0)

198 (27.4)

65 (21.7)

55 (9.6)

63 (29.3)

71 (24.4)

10 (7.4)

87 (10.5)

 Total four ANC visits

369

723

300

574

215

291

135

825

Institutional delivery

 n (%) from catchment area

675 (79.4)

646 (72.2)

407 (80.4)

734 (87.6)

130 (77.8)

249 (81.4)

224 (98.2)

811 (89.9)

 n (%) bypassing

175 (20.6)

249 (27.8)

99 (19.6)

104 (12.4)

37 (22.2)

57 (18.6)

4 (1.8)

91 (10.1)

 Total deliveries

850

895

506

838

167

306

228

902

PNC visits

 n (%) from catchment area

61 (83.6)

307 (74.7)

29 (100)

348 (94.3)

33 (68.8)

43 (69.4)

7 (100)

520 (93.4)

 n (%) bypassing

12 (16.4)

104 (25.3)

0 (0)

21 (5.7)

15 (31.2)

19 (30.6)

0 (0)

37 (6.6)

 Total PNC

73

411

29

369

48

62

7

557

Total OPD attendancea

20,751

18,607

20,809

17,976

6834

6203

17,169

14,483

  1. OPD Outpatients’ department, ANC Antenatal care, PNC Postnatal care. aOPD attendance is largely driven by malaria in the district. In 2014, there was a district-wide distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and indoors residual spraying for malaria control, which explain the drop from the 2013 figures