Operationalising effective coverage measurement of facility based childbirth in Gombe State; a comparison of data sources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19593936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josephine Exley (0000-0002-6501-0854, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, corresponding author), Antoinette Bhattacharya (0000-0001-5400-9383, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Claudia Hanson (0000-0001-8066-7873, Karolinska Institutet), Abdulrahman Shuaibu (Gombe State University), Nasir Umar (0000-0001-5119-0092, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Tanya Marchant (0000-0002-4228-4334, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) |
| Editors | Victor Adagi Alegana |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | e0000359 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PLOS Global Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2767-3375 • E-ISSN: 2767-3375 |
| Publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000359 |
| PMID | 36962182 |
| OpenAlex | W4224260389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Estimating effective coverage of childbirth care requires linking population based data sources to health facility data. For effective coverage to gain widespread adoption there is a need to focus on the feasibility of constructing these measures using data typically available to decision makers in low resource settings. We estimated effective coverage of childbirth care in Gombe State, northeast Nigeria, using two different combinations of facility data sources and examined their strengths and limitations for decision makers. Effective coverage captures information on four steps: access, facility inputs, receipt of interventions and process quality. We linked data from the 2018 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) to two sources of health facility data: (1) comprehensive health facility survey data generated by a research project; and (2) District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2). For each combination of data sources, we examined which steps were feasible to calculate, the size of the drop in coverage between steps and the resulting estimate of effective coverage. Analysis included 822 women with a recent live birth, 30% of whom attended a facility for childbirth. Effective coverage was low: 2% based on the project data and less than 1% using the DHIS2. Linking project data with NDHS, it was feasible to measure all four steps; using DHIS2 it was possible to estimate three steps: no data was available to measure process quality. The provision of high quality care is suboptimal in this high mortality setting where access and facility readiness to provide care, crucial foundations to the provision of high quality of care, have not yet been met. This study demonstrates that partial effective coverage measures can be constructed from routine data combined with nationally representative surveys. Advocacy to include process of care indicators in facility summary reports could optimise this data source for decision making
Childbirth · Data collection · Data quality · Environmental health · Health care · Health facility · Operations management · Population · Psychological intervention · Public health · Receipt · Statistics · Computer Science · Engineering · Global Maternal and Child Health · Healthcare Policy and Management · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Mathematics · Medicine · Nursing · Health Informatics
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |