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Public Health Impact

Ntcheu health centreTheme: Public Health Impact
This theme consists of a series of multi disciplinary studies involving anthropology, economics and health systems research to examine what currently determines women’s access to care packages associated with malaria in pregnancy in differing contexts so that policy changes and other enablers can be employed to improve access within the context of antenatal care programmes. 

Economic studies examine the economic consequences of malaria in pregnancy and use this information to test the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefits of the Consortium’s treatment and prevention interventions and to predict the cost and affordability of scaling up prevention and treatment under differing regional conditions.

 

Anthropological studies look at the factors that affect the behaviour and practices of both service providers and users of malaria in pregnancy interventions.

Health systems research focuses on the factors from the user and provider perspective that impact upon access to preventative services for malaria in pregnancy.