Table 2.
Background characteristics of clusters (districts) in the Eastern Region of Ghana at intervention baseline
| District (cluster) | Health facilities, n | Demographic distribution of health facilities | Midwives, n | Doctors, n* | Deliveries per midwife, n | Phones received, n† | ||||
| Hospital‡ | Health centres |
CHPS | Maternity home§ | Remote (n, %) |
Non-remote (n, %) |
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| Afram Plains North | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 (77.8) | 2 (22.2) | 14 | 1 | 80.0 | 21 |
| Asuogyaman | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 6 (54.5) | 5 (45.5) | 18 | 3 | 130.4 | 29 |
| Birim Central | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 6 (40.0) | 9 (60.0) | 42 | 9 | 99.0 | 57 |
| Denkyembour | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 (62.5) | 3 (37.5) | 33 | – | 94.8 | 41 |
| Kwaebibiraem | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 (50.0) | 3 (50.0) | 19 | 2 | 107.6 | 25 |
| Kwahu West | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 (36.4) | 7 (63.6) | 38 | 9 | 101.6 | 49 |
| Lower Manya Krobo | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 (16.7) | 5 (83.3) | 47 | 10 | 75.0 | 54 |
| West Akim | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 (50.0) | 4 (50.0) | 25 | 3 | 96.4 | 31 |
*Number of doctors from main district hospital not provided by hospital management in the case of Denkyembour district.
†This may differ slightly from the sum of the number of midwives and the number of health facilities in the cluster as some individual-use phone could not be traced as in the case of Afram Plains North and West Akim districts.
‡Includes both private and public hospitals.
§Includes only private maternity homes.