Table 2 Study findings
Author & Date | Study Pop. | Type of healthcare financing policy | Significant study findings | Perception of the quality of care |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amo-Adjei et al., 2016 [56] | Pregnant women | Free maternal healthcare | The quality of care rendered to card bearers of the National Health Insurance Scheme was worse and some form of illegal out-of-pocket payment was found. | Poor |
Dalinjong et al., 2012 [4] | Pregnant women | Free maternal healthcare | Clients experienced long waiting times, verbal abuse, and discriminated by providers. | Poor |
Koroma et al., 2017 [17] | Pregnant women and health providers | Free maternal healthcare | Inadequate beds, drug supplies, no potable water, and poor reception of providers and low skilled birth attendants. | Poor |
Kuwawenaruwa et al., 2019 [55] | Pregnant women | Free maternal healthcare | Reduction of the financial burden for women, poor attitude of providers, ignorance of clients about the policy | Poor |
Dennis et al., 2019 [11] | Pregnant women | Free maternal healthcare | Early initiation of ANC visit | Good |
Mahamoud, 2017 [54] | Pregnant women | Free maternal healthcare | Available essential drugs, friendly provider-client relationship, clean environment High satisfaction rate | Good |
Ogbuabor and Onwujekwe 2018 [58] | Pregnant women, managers, providers | Free maternal healthcare | Distrustful relationships with policymakers and providers, weak patient complaint system (No suggestions box to put it their grievances) | Poor |
Owiti et al., 2018 [51] | Pregnant women | Free maternal healthcare | Low utilization of service due to perceived poor quality of care, ill-attitude of provider, fear of being charged for delivery. | Poor |
Philibert et al., 2014 [52] | Pregnant women | Free maternal healthcare | High satisfactory rate of service and quality of care, providers give assurance, good nursing care and interaction, and clean environment | Good |
Belaid and Ridde, 2015 [57] | Pregnant women, frontline managers, & Providers | Partially free obstetric care | Clients were charged for some drugs meant to be free, providers ill-attitudes and charging of illegal fees coupled with poor quality of care put clients off | Poor |
Ridde and Diarra 2009 [53] | Pregnant women, and healthcare providers | Free maternal healthcare | Clients support user-fees abolition | Good |
Gitobu et al., 2018 [5] | Pregnant women | free maternal health policy | More than half (54.5%) of the respondents were satisfied with all indicators, but the majority were unsatisfied with privacy, cleanliness and waiting time. | Mixed perception |
Ganle et al., 2014 [50] | Pregnant women & health providers | Free maternal healthcare | Poor quality of care due to long lower staff strength, limited and unequal distribution of skilled workers | Poor |