Highlights
- Community-based healthcare programs can reduce adverse pregnancy
outcomes (miscarriage and stillbirth) in rural poor settings
- Community-based health care programs have the potential to improve
equity in adverse pregnancy outcomes in remote rural settings
- Community-based healthcare programs can play an important role in
bringing socio-economic and cultural factors that impact on adverse
pregnancy outcomes in rural poor settings
- Community-based healthcare program planners and implementers should
factor in modalities for measuring and ensuring interventions do not
widen equity gaps.