[Monitoring of maternal and infantile care activities: experience of Tunisia basic health care services].

In the feamework of quality assessment, the basic service for health care of Tunis introduced in 1997 a service managing tool for prenatal activity monitoring. This paper aims to present the way this tool should be used its setting up within the basic health structures and its principal effects on the quality process. Prenatal activity monitoring is a process that allows evaluation, control and dysfunction level identification of a health program: it also permits a microplanification in order to compensate for its failings.