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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1332612
"Private Sector Quality Interventions to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review"
Provisionally accepted- 1 School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- 2 Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization (Switzerland), Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
The private health sector accounts for delivering a significant volume of maternal and newborn health (MNH) services in mixed health systems in many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). As such, the private sector is an essential partner in delivering health care and could play an important role in achieving universal health coverage (UHC). While some studies have begun mapping the activities and contributions of the private health sector in MNH care in LMICs, less is known about the specific health service interventions implemented by the private sector providers to improve quality of care. This scoping review aims to fill this gap by mapping service delivery interventions that were explicitly designed and implemented by private health providers to deliver MNH care in LMICs.
Keywords: BM, NY, SRL, ASJ. Conducted the searches: SRL, js
Received: 03 Nov 2023; Accepted: 07 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Jung, Lattof, Maliqi and Yaqub. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Blerta Maliqi, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization (Switzerland), Geneva, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
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