Building the Evidence Base for Health System Transformation Through Designing and Testing of Future Health System Models and Measure: PNC Data

Quality postnatal care (PNC) is crucial for safeguarding the health of both the mother and her newborn through effective screening, timely identification of complications, and adequate education on self-care and infant care. Timely interventions during this period have been shown to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. However, evidence indicates that PNC services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are underutilized and often of low quality, particularly for mothers. This is primarily attributed to barriers such as limited access, lack of awareness about available services and their importance, negative antenatal care experiences, and women’s limited decision-making power. This study aims to address these gaps by examining the utilization and content of PNC services for mothers throughout the postpartum period. This data set is quality of care mothers receive when they visit the health facility with a focus on follow up postnatal care. The quality-of-care entails not just the utilization patterns of these mothers for these services but also the content of care they receive when they actually access these health facilities as well as what factors are associated with them receiving quality care based on eight service components identified per the Kenyan postnatal care guidelines.