Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, a PLOS Collection, presents innovative assessments of the validity of measuring population coverage for interventions in this field. Coverage indicators are widely used to assess whether interventions are reaching women and children in low- and middle-income countries, particularly through population-based household surveys. This collection of original research articles and reviews shows that while some indicators can be measured accurately, others may not provide valid results and therefore need further investigation and development.
The collection explores issues around measurement using household surveys, assessment of health inequalities, consideration of survey error, and the generation of indicators for global monitoring, and presents recommendations for transforming the findings of these and previous studies into better measurement, reporting and interpretation of coverage estimates.
This collection was produced with support from the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG). Financial support for CHERG is provided by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through their grant to the US Fund for UNICEF.
The Collection Editor is Dr Lucy Chappell. The PLOS Medicine Editors have sole editorial responsibility for the content of this Collection.
Newborn and Maternal Related Articles in the Collection:
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Population HIV-free survival among children under 2 years of age in 4 African countries – the PEARL community survey. Stringer J, Stinson K, Tih PM, Giganti M, Ekouevi D, Creek TL, Welty TK, Chi BH, Wilfert C, Shaffer N, Stringer EM, Dabis F, Coetzee D
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A validation study linking population survey derived coverage to maternal, newborn and child health care records in rural China. Liu L, Li M, Yang L, Ju L, Tan B, Walker N, Bryce J, Campbell H, Black RE, Guo Y
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Testing the validity of women’s self-report of key maternal and newborn health Interventions during the peripartum period in Mozambique. Stanton CK, Rawlins B, Drake M, Anjos M, Cantor D, Chongo L, Chavane L, Vaz ML, Ricca J
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Validating women’s self-report of emergency Cesarean sections in Ghana and the Dominican Republic. Tunçalp Ö, Stanton C, Castro A, Adanu RK, Heymann M, Adu-Bonsaffoh K, Lattof SR, Blanc A, Langer A
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Indicators for Global Tracking of Newborn Care. Moran A, Kerber K, Sitrin D, Guenther T, Morrissey CS, Newby H, Fishel J, Yoder PS, Hill Z, Lawn JE
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Determining and interpreting inequalities in coverage of maternal, newborn and child health interventions. Barros AJD, Victora CG
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