Umesh Charantimath

TL;DR: Rural south Indian communities reported regular use of health care services during pregnancy and for delivery, and factors that influenced women’s care-seeking included their limited autonomy, poor access to and funding for transport for non-emergent conditions, perceived poor quality of health Care facilities, and the costs of care.

TL;DR: Feasibility assessments for community level interventions, particularly those involving task-shifting across diverse regions, require an appropriate theoretical framework and careful selection of research methods.

TL;DR: Task-sharing activities to detect and manage pregnancy hypertension can be achieved by CHWs and community engagement activities can achieve a community-driven transport plan.

TL;DR: Modelling access successfully predict potential vulnerability in populations by comparing travel times to care as modelled in a GIS environment with self-reported travel times by women seeking maternal care in Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia: Mozambique, India and Pakistan.

TL;DR: The CLIP intervention did not reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes and future community-level interventions should expand the community health worker workforce, assess general (rather than condition-specific) messaging, and include health system strengthening.