Linking data sources for measurement of effective coverage in maternal and newborn health: What do we learn from individual- vs ecological-linking methods?

Journal of Global Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Willey, Barbara ^a   Waiswa, Peter ^b,c   Kajjo, Darious ^b   Munos, Melinda ^d   Akuze, Joseph ^b   Allen, Elizabeth ^a   Marchant, Tanya ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN CARE; RESIDENT; UGANDA; ADOLESCENT; ECOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85045358215     PISSN: 20472978     EISSN: 20472986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.08.010601     Document Type: Article

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