Measuring the strength of maternal, newborn and child health care implementation and its association with childhood mortality risk in three rural districts of Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: This observational cohort study explores the association between maternal, newborn and child health care (MNCH) implementation strength and child survival in rural Tanzania from 2011-2015. Measuring this relationship is crucial to improve health outcomes and inform decision-making by identifying which interventions are most effective, where gaps exist, and how to strengthen primary health care systems. We used data from a 2011 service availability and readiness assessment that quantified health facilities' ability to implement MNCH services and a household survey that measured MNCH service utilization to develop domain-specific summary measures of the effective coverage of MNCH. We reduced domain-specific effective coverage scores into fewer, independent scales of implementation strength o

SUBMITTER: Baynes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12614556 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature