Improving access to birth attention of marginalized populations in Peru

It was distributed among the Ministry of Health (34 per cent), the SIS (23 per cent) and the regional authorities (43 per cent) to perform specific activities: broadening the attention of deliveries in institutional establishments, improving hemotherapy, increasing of number of childbearing women affiliated to SIS and elaborating technical guides in maternal and neonatal attention.8 Recent governm [...] The Costa forms the west margin of the country and is home to roughly 23 per cent of the population. [...] The Sierra region is composed of the cities and villages of the Andes and is home to 35 per cent of Peruvians. [...] To further analyze the differences in ID by area of residence, it is useful to include two variables to proxy the quality of ID: caregiver capability to lead the delivery as well as the type of health establishment. [...] Nurses, traditional health attendants and those in the “other” category are more common in rural areas, even though there is nothing certain about the level of skills in the “other” category.10 When one looks at the health establishment by area of residence, the right panel of Table 2 shows that roughly one out of two women delivers her baby in MINSA hospitals in urban areas, while roughly one out