Operationalising effective coverage measurement of facility based childbirth in Gombe State; a comparison of data sources.

ABSTRACT: Estimating effective coverage of childbirth care requires linking population based data sources to health facility data. For effective coverage to gain widespread adoption there is a need to focus on the feasibility of constructing these measures using data typically available to decision makers in low resource settings. We estimated effective coverage of childbirth care in Gombe State, northeast Nigeria, using two different combinations of facility data sources and examined their strengths and limitations for decision makers. Effective coverage captures information on four steps: access, facility inputs, receipt of interventions and process quality. We linked data from the 2018 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) to two sources of health facility data: (1) comprehensive health f

SUBMITTER: Exley J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021305 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature