Table 1.

Geographic and health facility characteristics of PRIME implementation areas, 2013–2014

Country	Ethiopia	India	Nepal	South Africa	Uganda
Implementation area	Sodo District	Sehore and Shyampur subdistricts of Sehore District, Madhya Pradesh	Chitwan District*	Orkney catchment area of Matlosana subdistrict of Dr Kenneth Kaunda District, Northwest Province	Kamuli District
Population	161 952	212 192	108 368	90 000	518 200
Area, km2	867	1039	342	31	4278
# and type of health facility	8 public and 1 private health clinics	3 CHC	9 health posts and 1 PHC†	1 CHC and 3 PHC clinics‡	12 health centres (levels III and IV) 1 primary care department in the district hospital
Primary provider types	Health officer	Medical officer	Medical officers, health assistants, auxiliary health workers	Nurse, PHC doctor	Medical officer
Primary care services provided in the facilities	Primary care, emergency; delivery care, mother and baby care, family planning and immunisation	Primary, acute, reproductive and child health	Outpatient; immunisation; family planning; safe motherhood and new born care; antinatal and postnatal care; delivery of babies	Chronic care	Outpatient; emergency; immunisation; maternal and child health; family planning, health education and primary care in general including mental health

*Implementation area consists of 10 of the 38 Village Development Committees/Municipalities of Chitwan District.

†222 study participants from 2 of the 10 health facilities are excluded from analysis.

‡One of the three PHC clinics was an implementation pilot site and was excluded from study data collection.

CHC, community health centre; PHC, primary health care centre.