Journal of Global Health Collection: Improving Coverage Measurement

The Improving Coverage Measurement (ICM) project, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, brought together experts from academic and non-governmental institutions and survey programmes to generate evidence about the validity of MNCH coverage indicators and about approaches to improve coverage measurement. This Collection describes the research conducted by ICM, and also includes contributions from other initiatives addressing these questions. The studies included in this Collection include validation studies for antibiotic treatment for pneumonia, care-seeking for childhood illness, and interventions delivered in the intrapartum and postnatal period, as well as studies applying and comparing approaches for generating measures of effective coverage using population and health facility data.

Newborn health related articles in this Journal of Global Health collection include:

• Can surveys of women accurately track indicators of maternal and newborn care? A validity and reliability study in Kenya. Katharine J McCarthy, Ann K Blanc, Charlotte E Warren, James Kimani, Brian Mdawida, and Charity Ndwidga. JOGH 2016; 6: 020502
• Women’s recall of maternal and newborn interventions received in the postnatal period: a validity study in Kenya and Swaziland. Katharine J McCarthy, Ann K Blanc, Charlotte E Warren, Brian Mdawida. JOGH 2018; 8: 010605
• Validation of maternal reports for low birthweight and preterm birth indicators in rural Nepal. Karen T Chang, Luke C Mullany, Subarna K Khatry, Steven C LeClerq, Melinda K Munos, Joanne Katz. JOGH 2018; 8: 010604
• Why some mothers overestimate birth size and length of pregnancy in rural Nepal. Karen T Chang, Luke C Mullany, Subarna K Khatry,Steven C LeClerq, Melinda K Munos, Joanne Katz. JOGH 2018; 8: 020801
• Improving coverage measurement for reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health: gaps and opportunities. Melinda K Munos, Cynthia K Stanton, Jennifer Bryce; the Core Group for Improving Coverage Measurement for MNCH. JOGH 2017; 7: 010801
• Linking household and facility data for better coverage measures in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health care: systematic review. Mai Do, Angela Micah, Luciana Brondi, Harry Campbell, Tanya Marchant, Thomas Eisele, Melinda Munos. JOGH 2016; 6: 020501
• Quality of antenatal care service provision in health facilities across sub–Saharan Africa: Evidence from nationally representative health facility assessments. Mufaro Kanyangarara, Melinda K Munos, Neff Walker. JOGH 2017; 7: 021101
• Linking data sources for measurement of effective coverage in maternal and newborn health: what do we learn from individual- vs ecological-linking methods? Barbara Willey, Peter Waiswa, Darious Kajjo, Melinda Munos, Joseph Akuze, Elizabeth Allen, Tanya Marchant. JOGH 2018; 8: 010601

Find the full collection here.

The videos and slides from the Improving Coverage Measurement (ICM) November 2018 Launch of a Journal of Global Health Special Issue can be found here.