Benchmarking health system performance across districts in Zambia: A systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions from 1990 to 2010

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Colson, Katherine Ellicott ^a   Dwyer Lindgren, Laura ^b   Achoki, Tom ^b,c   Fullman, Nancy ^b   Schneider, Matthew ^d   Mulenga, Peter ^e   Hangoma, Peter ^f,g   Ng, Marie ^b   Masiye, Felix ^b,g   Gakidou, Emmanuela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

^d UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Coverage; Indicators; Inequalities; Maternal and child health; Subnational benchmarking; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MALARIA CONTROL; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEASLES VACCINATION; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCALE UP; SOCIAL STATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ZAMBIA; CHILD WELFARE; FAMILY; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BENCHMARKING; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL WELFARE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84926137605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0308-5     Document Type: Article

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