Institutionalizing Operation Research to Strengthen Peru Ministry of Healths Reproductive Health Services in Priority Regions. Final report. August 15 1997 - September 30 1998.

This final report summarizes the individual studies and discusses the potentials and limitations of the model of operational research (OR) institutionalization implemented in Peru. Designed into four sections the first section presents the executive summary of the report. The second section provides the background of the concept and process of institutionalizing OR to strengthen Peru Ministry of Healths Reproductive Health Services in priority regions. The third section presents the results of subawards and the final section cites several conclusions and recommendations. A total of 10 OR projects were designed by multidisciplinary teams formed by the participants in the OR workshops. All were designed as interventions but only three quasi-experiments were completed the pre-tests of the other two becoming diagnostic studies. The topics included improvements in birthing services preferred elements in institutional delivery community knowledge of alarm signs improving the quality of prenatal care and imparting family planning and reproductive health knowledge via information education and communication in Quechua. The studies were implemented in the departments of Puno Huancavelica Ayacucho and Ica.