Table 2 Description of peer -reviewed publications
Authors & Date | Study design & data collection | Settings | Population & Sample size | RMNCAH | Health system ‘s building blocks assessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berendes and al (2014) [26] | health facility assessment Cross sectional survey Infrastructure Material and supplies Health workers Patient records | Nationwide | 14-16 Health facilities in each 10 States (n=156 randomly selected facilities) | Children consultation Antenatal care | - Service delivery (quality of care, accessibility) - Medicines and supplies - Information system - Health workforce (performance) |
Bayo and al. (2018) [27] | Retrospective -cross sectional study | Torit County | 2466 patient’s admission files | Obstetric care (emergency obstetric complications) | Service delivery |
Elmusharaf and al. (2017) [28] | Participatory Ethnographic evaluation and research In depth interview Workshop | Renk County, Northern Upper Nile State | 14 women selected from villages of Renk County | Family planning (family size) | Community level |
Kane and al. (2016) [29] | Qualitative exploratory study FGD (n=5) Individual interviews (n=44) | Wau County, State of Western Bahr el Ghazal (Fertit community: rural and urban) | Community members (male and female) Traditional healers Traditional birth attendants Health facility personnel State SRH managers NGO representation | Family planning (social norms shaping birth spacings, childbearing Marriage) | Community level |
Kane and al. (2018) [30] | Qualitative exploratory study FGD (n=5) Interviews (n=44) | Same as Kane and al. (2016) | Same as Kane and al. (2016) | Maternal health (perception on the use of services for childbirth) | Service delivery (facility-based services) |
Lawry and al. (2017) [31] | Cross sectional study Randomized household survey quantitative qualitative interviews (n=72) | Gogrial West,Warrap State | Pregnant women or had children less than 5 years of age (n=860) Men (=144) Qualitative interviews (n=72) | RMNCH Contraception Facility based-deliveries Antenatal care Malaria (mosquito nets) DPT3 immunization Gender based violence | Service delivery Community level (knowledge on danger signs of maternal newborn and child health, perceptions of gender norms related to RMNCH health) |
Mugo and al. (2016) [32] | Cross sectional 2010 South Sudan household survey | National | 2767 of mothers who gave birth within 2 years prior the survey and delivered their babies at home | Maternal health (deliveries) | Service delivery |
Mugo and al. (2015) (ANC) [33] | Analysis of 2010 South Sudan household survey (a nationally representative, stratified, cluster sample survey) | National | 3504 women aged 15-49 years who had given birth with 2 years preceding the survey | Antenatal care | Service delivery |
Mugo and al. (2015) [34] | Literature review on South Sudan | National | NA | MNCH | Health workforce Governance/ Leadership Service delivery Medicines/ supplies |
Mugo and al. (2018) [35] | Qualitative study (in depth interviews) | Juba County (central Equatoria state) | Women with children aged less than 3 months, 10 in each type of health care facility who had given birth either at home or in a health facility(n=30), husbands (n=15) | Maternal and child health | Service delivery |
Mugo and al. (2018) [36] | Analysis of 2010 South Sudan household survey | National | 8125 singleton, live birth, under-five children born in South Sudan within 5 years prior to the 2010 South Sudan Household Survey | Child health | Service delivery |
Palmer and al. (2016) [38] | Ethnographic analysis of public health interventions (document analysis, observation) key informant interviews (n=54) | Juba | Health managers from the MOH, Ministry of Gender, Local and international NGO’s staff and UN agencies nurse and local women’s organization Journalists | Family planning Abortion | NA |
Sami and al. (2018) [39] | Cross sectional descriptive study of facility -based deliveries (clinical observation, exit interviews, health facility assessment, direct observation of midwife time use) | displacement camps: Maban Gendrassa Kaya, Juba, and Malakal | Mother-newborn pairs who sought services and birth attendants who provided delivery services between April and June 2016 in 5 health facilities | Maternal health Newborn health | Service delivery: Quality of care for mothers and newborns |
Scott and al. (2013) [40] | Community-based participatory research Using quote sampling | Aweil (Northern Bahr El Ghazal) Wau (Westen Bahr El Ghazal) Lainya, Morobo, Ronyi (Central Equatoria) Malakal (Upper Nile State) | N= 680 respondents, n=352 female, n= 326 male | Gender norms regarding sexuality and reproductive health | Community level |
Izudi and al (2017) [41] | cross sectional study (survey with random sampling) | Mundri East County (Westen Bahr El Ghazal) | 13 (one regional referral hospital, 2 county hospitals, 10 PHCC) postpartum mothers that had live births, were 15–49 years old, 8–14 days post-delivery and that attended PNC clinics (to receive immunization, contraception and growth monitoring services) | Postnatal care | Service delivery |
Kane and al. (2016) [29] | Qualitative descriptive study FGD (n=5) Interviews (n=44) | Wau County, State of Western Bahr el Ghazal | Same as kane and al. 2016, Kane and al. 2018 | Gender norms related to reproductive health | Community level |
Sami and al. (2017) [42] | Cross sectional study based on self -administered questionnaires and in-depth interviews | IDP (Sami and col. 2018) | Health providers Community health workers Traditional Birth Attendants | Maternal health (childbirth, post -partum) newborn’s health | Quality of care (knowledge and practice of care for mothers and newborns) |
Wilunda and al. (2016) [43] | Qualitative study FGD (n=14) Key informant interviews (n=12) | Rumbek North County | Women (n=169), men (n=45) community leaders, health providers, and the staff of the County Health Department | ANC | Service delivery |
Jones and al. (2015) [44] | Qualitative study | Nationwide | International health staff (technical advisor, consultant, senior managers, supervisors) from international, local organizations, health providers (n=20) | Primary health care (MNCH) | Six building’s blocks |
Myake and al. (2017) [45] | Scoping review | South Sudan | N=2 papers on South Sudan | RMNCH | Human resources (community midwifery) |
Sami and al. (2018) [39] | Case study using mixed methods (FGD (n=19), in-depth interviews (n=7) observation of health facility readiness, documents) | IDPs, Hospital (n=1) PHCC (n=4) CH programs (n=4) | Health workers (n=43) CHW (n=61) Program managers (n=7) | Newborn care | All 6 building blocks |
Kane and al. (2018) [30] | Exploratory qualitative study (FGD (n=4), in-depth interviews (n=44) | Wau county | Married women, 18- 35 years of old; unmarried women, 18- 35 years of old; men older than 35 years; men younger than 35 years health workers | Gender norms related to reproductive health | Community level |
Kane and al. (2019) [46] | Exploratory qualitative study (individual interviews) | Wau county | Teenage females and males (in school, out school, with child, no child) Parents | Reproductive health (teenage pregnancy, views of childbearing) | Community level |