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Citation

Mehta KM, Rerolle F, Rammohan SV, Albohm DC, Muwowo G, Moseson H, Sept L, Lee HL, Bendavid E. Am. J. Public Health 2015; 106(1): 87-94.

Affiliation

Kala M. Mehta, Sonali V. Rammohan, and Hau L. Lee are with the Value Chain Innovation Initiative, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Francois Rerolle was with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. Davis C. Albohm and Lesley Sept are with the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, Stanford University. George Muwowo was with the Stanford Graduate School of Business Field Office, Riders for Health Evaluation Program, Livingstone, Zambia. Kala M. Mehta and Heidi Moseson are with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Eran Bendavid is with the Department of General Medical Disciplines, Stanford University School, of Medicine Stanford.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2015.302891

PMID

26562131

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We investigated whether managed transportation improves outreach-based health service delivery to rural village populations.

METHODS: We examined systematic transportation management in a small-cluster interrupted time series field trial. In 8 districts in Southern Zambia, we followed health workers at 116 health facilities from September 2011 to March 2014. The primary outcome was the average number of outreach trips per health worker per week. Secondary outcomes were health worker productivity, motorcycle performance, and geographical coverage.

RESULTS: Systematic fleet management resulted in an increase of 0.9 (SD = 1.0) trips to rural villages per health worker per week (P < .001), village-level health worker productivity by 20.5 (SD = 5.9) patient visits, 10.2 (SD = 1.5) measles immunizations, and 5.2 (SD = 5.4) child growth assessments per health worker per week. Motorcycle uptime increased by 3.5 days per week (P < .001), use by 1.5 days per week (P < .001), and mean distance by 9.3 kilometers per trip (P < .001). Geographical coverage of health outreach increased in experimental (P < .001) but not control districts.

CONCLUSIONS: Systematic motorcycle management improves basic health care delivery to rural villages in resource-poor environments through increased health worker productivity and greater geographical coverage. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print November 12, 2015: e1-e8. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302891).


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