The phrase "availability of skilled care" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the accessibility or presence of qualified healthcare services or professionals.
Example: "The availability of skilled care in rural areas is a significant concern for local residents seeking medical attention."
Alternatives: "access to qualified care" or "presence of expert care".
The safe motherhood initiative also strongly emphasizes ensuring the availability and accessibility of skilled care at the time of childbirth, of which institutional delivery is one element where emergency obstetric care could be found to handle complicated cases.
Community help for mother and child UNICEF has been supporting the Ministry of Health with supplies and technical assistance to improve the availability and quality of skilled care for mothers and their newborns.
In 2006, the Government introduced the National Policy on SBAs, which generally aimed to reduce maternal/neonatal morbidity and mortality by ensuring availability, access, and utilization of skilled care at every birth (9).
Prior to the intervention, the coverage of CSBAs revealed the shortage and also lack of availability of facility care in the low performing areas which presumably influenced the low use of skilled care by the mothers of low SES of these areas.
bVacancy duration for search of skilled care: time taken for an employer to find a skilled elderly care nurse.
dVacancy duration for search of skilled care nurse: time taken for an employer to find a skilled elderly care nurse.
Similarly, the coverage of skilled care at birth (conducted at health facility attended by skilled attendant) was very low (17.5 %).
The aim was to increase the use of skilled attendants at delivery, and skilled care during ANC and PNC, thereby decreasing the rich/poor gap in the use of skilled care at a selected sub district.
In this context it is important that efforts to improve access and availability of skilled delivery care to women in developing countries focus equally on sensitizing providers on respectful care.
Thoughtfully structured programs that increase the availability of skilled midwifery care at the local level can be particularly effective in raising awareness of these issues, especially if such programs are combined with a vigorous, ongoing social marketing and community education campaign.
