Measuring coverage of maternal and child health services using routine health facility data: a Sierra Leone case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are limited existing approaches to generate estimates from Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) data, despite the growing interest to these data. We calculated and assessed the consistency of maternal and child health service coverage estimates from RHIS data, using census-based and health service-based denominators in Sierra Leone.

Methods

We used Sierra Leone 2016 RHIS data to calculate coverage of first antenatal care contact (ANC1), institutional delivery and diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus 3 (DPT3) immunization service provision. For each indicator, national and district level coverages were calculated using denominators derived from two census-based and three health service-based methods. We compared the coverage estimates from RHIS data to estimates

SUBMITTER: Maiga A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8435364 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature