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Table 2 Summary of barriers and facilitators for the successful implementation of community-based newborn possible serious bacterial infection management in Debre Libanos District, North Shoa zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia, 2019

From: Exploration of facilitators of and barriers to the community-based service utilization for newborn possible serious bacterial infection management in Debre Libanos District, Ethiopia: descriptive qualitative study

Major themes

Categories

Community-related facilitators and barriers

Communities’ perception towards newborn illness: Perception of no treatment

Communities’ perception towards newborn illness: Perception of non-severity and self-resolution

Belief on the healing power of traditional medicines

Awareness about the availability of the service at the health post

Socio-cultural and religious beliefs.

Health system-related facilitators and barriers

Equipped human resource

Shortage of Health extension workers

Supervision, monitoring, and evaluation of activities

The functionality of health developmental army

Residence of health extension workers

Health workers commitment

Availability of logistics [medical supplies and job aids]

Budget constraint