Home visits

The primary objective of home visits is to bring RMNCH education, information and counselling directly to the home via a health professional or trained volunteer/ peer. Contact with the household may be provided face-to-face or indirectly by phone. Those delivering the household outreach may be physicians, nurses, midwives, paraprofessionals, traditional providers, cadres, trained peer-educators, other health workers and volunteers.

These types of interventions may include the provision of print or electronic materials as part of the home visit. They also often include an element of training for the provider undertaking the household outreach / home visits.