TELE-ANC model in public sector in India: a feasible option to sustain quality antenatal care
- International Journal of Pregnancy & Child Birth
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Radhika Aggarwal, Kiran Guleria, Arun Kr Sharma, Himsweta Srivastava, Richa Aggarwal
Abstract
Prenatal care is one of the most widely used preventive strategies in healthcare. Despite rapid advances in medical practice over a century, obstetric care remains ‘traditional’. It is resource intensive with heavy footfall in public sector antenatal OPD leading to compromise in quality of care. Therefore, hybrid ‘TELE-ANC model’ is a feasible option to sustain quality care in limited resource setting. We assessed feasibility of this model in reducing ‘in-person visits’ in terms of provider, process and recipient and determined barriers and facilitators to implementation and robustness of process in delivering the model.
Keywords
prenatal care, fetal intervention, maternal substance, hypertension