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Maternal and Neonatal Health
Opportunities and Challenges for mHealth in resource-limited settings
Alain B. Labrique, PhD, MHS, MS, MACEmHealth Research Group
Center for Human Nutrition / Center for Global Health Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimore, Maryland (USA)
Maternal Health Policy Series, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC. October 27, 2010
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MDG 4/5 – Defining the burden
Global Burden of Maternal Mortality
Global Burden of Neonatal Mortality
Source: http://www.worldmapper.org, 2010
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When do maternal deaths occur?
Source: Ronsmans et al. Lancet 2006; 368:1189-1200
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When do neonatal deaths occur?
Source: Lawn JE et al Lancet 2005, Based on analysis of 47 DHS datasets (1995-2003), 10,048 neonatal deaths)
•1st Day – 50% of deaths•1st Week – 75% of deaths
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Neonatal Mortality by Maternal Age at Pregnancy (n=12,023 live births)
Overall Neonatal MR: ~60 per 1000Overall Neonatal MR: ~60 per 1000
Maternal Age
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Overall NMR: 57/1000 LB
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Complex pathways to mortality…
Sikder et al., 2010, M/S in preparation
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Unskilled first-line responders
A 20-year-old woman who experienced obstructed labor explained:
“ When I tried to give birth, the umbilical cord came out first. The dai who was helping me called 2 other trained dais. They were afraid to touch me because they said they had never seen anything like this before. Two hours later, my family called an ambulance, but the baby was already dead, probably from the cord being wrapped around its neck for a long time. ”
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Compounded Delays…
“During the home delivery, the child’s head became stuck. An untrained dai used her fingers to pull the child’s head to deliver the baby. The placenta would not come out even after much pulling. The woman had so much bleeding that it flowed over the floor. The family hurriedly took her to the government hospital, where attendants inserted their hands … to remove the placenta. The bleeding stopped immediately. The woman became very weak, and doctors were unable to get saline to enter her body. They suggested the woman be transferred to the district hospital. Before the family was able to arrange transportation, the woman died.”
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A Continuum of OpportunityA
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Mar
riage
Preg
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Del
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Early
Infa
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Health Education / Improved Nutrition
Delayed Marriage
ANC
ENC
emNOC
Vaccination IMCI
Improve Care-seeking / Service delivery
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“Simple” Strategies• Increase access to information
– Improve decision-making• Improve routine preventive care
– ANC– ENC
• Compress the time between crisis and care– Expedite appropriate decisions– Accelerate treatment-seeking– Accelerate care provision
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mHealth “Opportunities” in MNCH Immediate access to information rapid, targeted response
Preg
nanc
y
Identification of Pregnancy
Delivery
Post
part
um
Perio
dWindows of Opportunity
ANC / ENC counseling
Immediate, exclusive BF
Late pregnancy ANC
Registration of outcome
Pregnancy registration
Windows of Windows of VulnerabilityVulnerability
mHealth solutions ?
Prolonged Prolonged laborlabor
High High ““riskrisk”” pregnancy pregnancy
identificationidentification
Obstructed Obstructed deliverydelivery
Intrapartum Intrapartum crisis eventscrisis events
Early neonatal Early neonatal illnessillness
Neonatal Neonatal illnessillness
e-registration
Risk profile algorithm use
Push ENC/ ANC messages
e-Labor Notification
Dispatch of Emergency Team
or Facilitated Referral Systems
Facilitate recognition of
illness, improve referral behavior
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Example: The Johns Hopkins Example: The Johns Hopkins ““JiVitAJiVitA”” Maternal and Child Health Research Site (Maternal and Child Health Research Site (www.jivita.orgwww.jivita.org))
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The Johns Hopkins “JiVitA” Maternal and Child Health Research Site
• ~500 sq. km. of rural NW Bangladesh• ~600 “villages”• Population: 650,000• 600 Community Health Workers• Women of reproductive age listed:
~150,000• Pregnancies enrolled and followed since 2001:
~ 98,000• Newborns enrolled and followed since 2001:
> 80,000
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Enrolled mothers are periodically interviewed for diet, morbidity, other exposures, pregnancy outcomes,
and infant health
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Pregnancies are monitored weekly, and vital events reporting is ongoing using paper and digital systems.
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Field-based study workers, on bicycles, reach newborns within 18 hrs of birth.
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Data Entry, Processing
and Management
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Over 260,000 homes are GIS-mapped…
Sugimoto J et al. JHPN 2008
- Over 260,000 GPS Points- Households updated- Rural road network- Health Center locations
- “Distance” to facility capable
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Girls are married, on average, at age 16½“Survival Curve” of Time to Pregnancy after Marriage
(Among Cohort of Newly Married Women 2001-2005)
Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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~50% of infants are low birth weight
N=12,342 Newborns
Mean wt= 2442 grams
Low birth weight
Source: Klemm et al., Pediatrics 2007
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~ 22% of neonates are preterm…
N = 12,342
Median: 39 weeks
22.3% Preterm
Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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Most pregnant women in this population experienced NO routine antenatal care
(2001-2007, n=41,285)
Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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Mobiles ?
Source: © Photographersdirect.com
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Cellular Coverage and Household Ownership seems High
N=32,528 (2007-2010)
• 3G / EVDO networks
• High bandwidth capacity
• Wide network of traditional market phone support and charging systems
Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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Number of “Near Miss” events 611 (5%)Mobile phone use during crisis 337 (55%)
Mobile phone used to call provider 241 (72%)Mobile phone used for medical advice 193 (57%) Mobile phone used to arrange transport 110 (33%)Mobile phone used to ask for financial aid 70 (21%)
Families who have phones use them during pregnancy Crises
N=11,451 (2007-2010)
Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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Some examples…• A 23-year-old woman who experienced obstructed labor:
“When the traditional birth attendants realized they could not handle the delivery, they phoned the family welfare assistant for advice. She told us to go straight to the government hospital, where I received an emergency C-section that saved me.”
• A 17-year-old girl who experienced postpartum hemorrhage:
“After delivery, I lost so much blood that the village doctor could not make it stop. He used his mobile phone to call an ambulance to immediately take me to the maternal and child welfare center.”
Source: Sikder, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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What about the gap ?
Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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Phone Ownership – Associations with SES N=32,528 (2007-2010)
Overall
(%)
Low SES
(%)
High SES
(%)
2007 20.4 8.6 27.92008 22.2 8.0 29.72009 34.6 15.2 42.92010 45.1 26.6 51.4
*SES proxied by household construction index. Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
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Neonatal Mortality – Associations with Socioeconomic Status
*SES proxied by household construction index. Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
2009 NMR: 53.2/1000 LB2009 NMR: 44.3/1000 LB
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Average Birth Notification Speed did not differ by Family Phone Ownership
(2007-2010)
HOURS from Birth to Study Worker Visit
Freq
uenc
y
Mean(+SD): 15.5+12.9
Mean(+SD): 15.5+13.1
Source: Labrique, JiVitA Data (Unpublished)
DAY 2DAY 1
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So…
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Potential Priorities
Test mHealth for what “we know works”:– Antenatal and Infant Vaccines– Improve safe / clean deliveries– Emergency, facilitated referrals– Provide essential newborn care– Assure postpartum mother / newborn visit– Improve immediate / exclusive breastfeeding– Generate robust data streams (vital registries)
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Potential Priorities
• Leverage mHealth / ICT opportunities to:– Track / monitor progress of pregnant women– Immediately notify / record births– Immediately recognize pre-term births– Provide location information to CHW / Provider– Standardize delivery of ENC/EOC– Automate algorithms for classifying severely ill
newborns
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Moving Forward…
• Common “mHealth” vocabulary• Defined research agenda
– Testing ideas– Demonstrating feasibility– Establishing cost-effectiveness– Measuring EFFICACY
• Defining mHealth “Success”– Standardized, defined process indicators– Standardized, defined outcome indicators
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How to prioritize ?Identify, test and advocate for interventions that:
– Have measured public health impact– Are cost-effective and sustainable– Are locally appropriate and scalable– Target MDG / MNCH Priorities– Strengthen health systems
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Selecting mHealth Strategies for MNCH: What is the target “space” ?
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Other axes: health system infrastructure, burden of disease / mortality, etc…
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Summary
• Continuum of opportunity• Bridge the “Gap” between Problems
and Solutions• Develop and use robust measures of
impact
• Future thoughts: Protection of patient confidentiality
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Thank youThank you
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