Journal ArticleDOI
Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Countdown to 2015: a retrospective review of survey data from 54 countries.
Aluísio J D Barros,Carine Ronsmans,Henrik Axelson,Edilberto Loaiza,Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi,Giovanny Vinícius Araújo de França,Jennifer Bryce,J. Ties Boerma,Cesar G. Victora +8 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Skilled birth attendant coverage was the least equitable intervention, according to all four summary indices, followed by four or more antenatal care visits, and the most equitable intervention was early initation of breastfeeding.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2012-03-31. It has received 498 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Psychological intervention & Birth attendant.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Midwifery and quality care: findings from a new evidence-informed framework for maternal and newborn care
Mary J. Renfrew,Alison McFadden,Maria Helena Bastos,James Campbell,Andrew Amos Channon,Ngai Fen Cheung,Deborah Rachel Audebert Delage Silva,Soo Downe,Holly Powell Kennedy,Address Malata,Felicia McCormick,Laura Wick,Eugene Declercq +12 more
TL;DR: A system-level shift from maternal and newborn care focused on identification and treatment of pathology for the minority to skilled care for all is supported, which includes preventive and supportive care that works to strengthen women's capabilities in the context of respectful relationships.
Journal ArticleDOI
Demographic and health surveys: a profile
TL;DR: An overview of the DHS is presented along with an introduction to the potential scope for these data in contributing to the field of micro- and macro-epidemiology, allowing comparability across populations cross-sectionally and over time.
Countdown to 2015: A decade of tracking progress for maternal newborn and child survival. The 2015 Report.
TL;DR: The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival has reached its originally proposed lifespan and was successful in monitoring progress and raising the visibility of the health of mothers, newborns, and children.
Journal ArticleDOI
Countdown to 2015: a decade of tracking progress for maternal, newborn, and child survival.
Cesar G. Victora,Jennifer Harris Requejo,Aluísio J D Barros,Peter Berman,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Ties Boerma,Mickey Chopra,Andres de Francisco,Bernadette Daelmans,Elizabeth Hazel,Joy E Lawn,Blerta Maliqi,Holly Newby,Jennifer Bryce +13 more
TL;DR: The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival (Countdown) initiative as mentioned in this paper was a multistakeholder initiative of more than 40 academic, international, bilateral, and civil society institutions to monitor progress and raise the visibility of the health of mothers, newborns, and children.
Journal ArticleDOI
Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Determining and Interpreting Inequalities in Coverage of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Interventions
TL;DR: In a PLOS Medicine Review, Aluísio Barros and Cesar Victora provide a practical guide to measuring and interpreting inequalities in the coverage of maternal, newborn, and child interventions in low- and middle-income countries using data collected by large household surveys.
References
More filters
Posted Content
Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data or Tears: With an Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
TL;DR: This work estimates the relationship between household wealth and children’s school enrollment in India by constructing a linear index from asset ownership indicators, using principal-components analysis to derive weights, and shows that this index is robust to the assets included, and produces internally coherent results.
Journal ArticleDOI
Estimating Wealth Effects Without Expenditure Data—Or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
Deon Filmer,Lant Pritchett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for estimating the effect of household economic status on educational outcomes without direct survey information on income or expenditures is proposed and defended, which uses an index based on household asset ownership indicators.
Journal ArticleDOI
The concepts and principles of equity and health.
TL;DR: Seven principles for action are outlined, stemming from these concepts, to be borne in mind when designing or implementing policies, so that greater equity in health and health care can be promoted.
Journal ArticleDOI
The concepts and principles of equity and health
TL;DR: Seven principles for action are outlined, stemming from these concepts, to be borne in mind when designing or implementing policies, so that greater equity in health and health care can be promoted.
Journal ArticleDOI
Socioeconomic inequalities in health: Measurement, computation, and statistical inference
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between two widely used indices of health inequality and explain why these are superior to others indices used in the literature is explained and the role that demographic standardization plays in the analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in health.
Related Papers (5)
Estimating Wealth Effects Without Expenditure Data—Or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
Deon Filmer,Lant Pritchett +1 more