[Quality assessment of prenatal care using lqas in urban health centers and health houses of astara, 2004]

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Prenatal care is very important in community health promotion, and inadequate prenatal care can result preterm labor, low birth weight neonate and maternal and neonatal mortality. LQAS is a cheap and also fast approach to assess the quality of care given in prenatal phase. This method helps us to compare all care providers with standards and also with each other and therefore work on their problems