Effective coverage as a new approach to health system performance assessment: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delivering interventions is the main task of health systems whose accurate measurement is an essential input into tracking performance. Recently, the concept of effective coverage was introduced by World Health Organization to incorporate into health system performance assessment. The aim of present scoping review was mapping the key elements and steps of effective coverage assessment in practical efforts including kinds of interventions, criteria for selecting them and the need, use and quality estimation approaches and strategies of each intervention.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review of health system/program assessments which assessed effective coverage till May 2017. Seven databases were systematically searched with no time and language restriction through

SUBMITTER: Jannati A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6251131 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature