On the supply side, facilities that provide subsidized family planning products and services regularly experience both stock outs and a dearth of qualified providers [ 18], while on the demand side, stigma, inadequate sexuality information, and cultural pressure inhibit the utilization of family planning services among women and girls in Kenya [ 19, 20].
However, despite strengthening of the supply side (facilities), poor women are still at risk as they face a number of barriers, particularly financial, to access EmOC in the absence of social safety nets and widely prevalent out-of-pocket payment mechanisms [ 7].
This is partly due to a lack of variation in health care quality in small-scale studies covering few facilities and partly due to a lack of such supply-side facility data in large household surveys like the DHS.
This paper addresses a major evidence gap regarding facility care of newborns in low-and-middle income countries and identifies the supply side components of facility newborn care that need to be strengthened in order to match the demand for services and to increase newborn survival.
Similarly, lack of information could be occurring on the supply side where health facility staff are unaware of the fee-for-service guidelines.
Another shortcoming of the study was its limitation to explore only supply side factors concerning facility-based IMCI implementation and hence user's (community) perspective was beyond the scope of this study.
In these regressions we consider the most complete specification which includes also proxies of the supply side (population per health facility and population per doctor).
Additionally, on the supply side, all SP-sponsored health facilities from public health providers had to offer a minimum level of health-services quality in order to belong to the SP-sponsored health facilities network.
CHAG facilities also receive supply side subsidies since a large proportion of staff salaries are paid from Government of Ghana Consolidated Funds.
A combined demand and supply side based system of financing, where facilities are partly funded based upon their ability to provide services to targeted populations, may result in improved benefits for the poor and vulnerable.
These supply side activities covered two-thirds of health facilities within the district as another financial and technical partner (UNFPA) had selected the remaining one-third for similar health facility strengthening.
