Sasha Rozenshteyn
Pronouns: she, her, hers
Research Mentor(s): Emily Treleaven, Research Investigator
Research Mentor School/College/Department: Institute for Social Research/Population Studies Center,
Presentation Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Session: Session 5 (3pm-3:50pm)
Breakout Room: Room 4
Presenter: 7
Abstract
Mali, especially its rural communities, has one of the highest under-five mortality rates in the world. The Proactive Community Case Management to Reduce Child Mortality (ProCCM) experiment is a three-year analysis created to examine health care access and treatment among infants and young children. This project will assess whether a door-to-door health service, rather than families coming to clinics, as well as referrals provided by these trained community health workers, will present an improvement in early access to health care and decrease the numbers of deaths among children under 5. This study includes creating and conducting an annual survey of all households in the study area to collect information about members of the household, their health, and recent illness and use of health services over three years. The focus of this sub-study specifically lies in analyzing the independence of women making health care choices, and how their position in the family impacts their ability to make decisions. Furthermore, whether distance to a clinic or hospital results in better antenatal care for mothers will be considered, as well as how the time of year changes the amount of care they receive. It is necessary to create a literature review and analyzing certain data points to understand the trends of this research topic. It is expected that the results of the entire trial will inform public health practices and policies in low and middle-income countries around the world.
Authors: Sasha Rozenshteyn, Emily Treleaven
Research Method: Survey Research
