Linking household and facility data for better coverage measures in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health care: systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Currently many measures of intervention coverage obtained from household surveys do not measure actual health intervention/service delivery, resulting in a need for linking reports of care-seeking with assessments of the service environment in order to improve measurements. This systematic review aims to identify evidence of different methods used to link household surveys and service provision assessments, with a focus on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care, in low- and middle-income countries.

Methods

Using pre-defined search terms, articles published in peer-reviewed journals and the grey literature after 1990 were identified, their reference lists scanned and linking methods synthesized.

Findings

A total of 59 articles and conference p

SUBMITTER: Do M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5012234 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature