Table 2.
Description of interventions of included studies, grouped according to supply-side and non-financial and financial (P = positive; MP = mixed positive; N = negative; U = unclear)
| Non-financial | Effectiveness | Reference | Financial | Effectiveness | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply | Delivery of services close to home | Service level improvements | ||||
| Home visits by nurse or other health worker | Pay for performance for health care workers | MP | ||||
| Home visits by nurse to provide immunisation to those who did not attend appointments | P | [41] | Contractor delivery of primary health services (contracting-out vs contracting-in) | U | [52] | |
| Home visits by weighing agent who flagged abnormalities with GP and those in need provided with free consultations | P | [42] | ||||
| CHW | ||||||
| Diarrhoea (ORS) | P | [43] | ||||
| Malaria (IPTc) | P | |||||
| MP | [32] | |||||
| N | ||||||
| Immunisation camps | ||||||
| Well publicised immunisation camps and food incentives | P | |||||
| Service level improvements | ||||||
| Health worker training | ||||||
| Health worker training | P | [46] | ||||
| MP | [30] | |||||
| Scaling up of services | ||||||
| Strengthening of routine vaccination programme function | N | [47] | ||||
| Integration of services | ||||||
| Integration of intermittent preventive treatment for children alongside EPI vaccines | P | [45] | ||||
| Integration of HIV services with immunisation/ANC | P | [34] | ||||
| N | [48, 50] | |||||
| Combined interventions (Primary component service level improvement) | ||||||
| Health worker training, health systems improvements, family and community activities (eg. formation of village health workers) | MP | [44] | ||||
| Integration of HIV and immunisation services, operational support, training for staff, counselling of caregivers, community awareness campaigns | N | [91] | ||||