Measuring coverage of essential maternal and newborn care interventions: An unfinished agenda

[...]the supplement assesses gaps and quality of available data on newborn health and measurement approaches across measurement platforms. [...]nearly 75% of the countries have data available for these indicators [8,15]. Skilled attendant at birth Skilled attendants even in health facilities may not be equipped to save newborns Need to supplement and link coverage data with health facility level data and quality of care indicators. Data from HMIS will be crucial for monitoring progress toward national and global targets. 1 Data and Analytics, Division of Data, Research and Policy, UNICEF, New York, New York, USA 2 Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children, Washington, D.C., USA 3 MEASURE Evaluation/Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 4 Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 5 Jhpiego, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 6 Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva Switzerland 7 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA