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Monitoring maternal, newborn, and child health interventions using lot quality assurance sampling in Sokoto State of northern Nigeria.
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- Integrated maternal, newborn and child-health strategies and interventions for reducing maternal and child mortality in Nigeria: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Quality Assessment Indicators for Well-Child Care in Primary Health Care: A Scoping Review of Global Trends, Standardization, and Dimensions of Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Scoping review of maternal and newborn health interventions and programmes in Nigeria.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Assessing cardiovascular disease risk factor screening inequalities in India using Lot Quality Assurance Sampling.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Quantifying risks and interventions that have affected the burden of lower respiratory infections among children younger than 5 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Review of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling, Methodology and its Application in Public Health.Nepal journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Measurement approaches in continuum of care for maternal health: a critical interpretive synthesis of evidence from LMICs and its implications for the South African context.BMC health services research · 2018Review
- Married women's decision making power on family planning use and associated factors in Mizan-Aman, South Ethiopia: a cross sectional study.BMC women's health · 2016Article
- Challenges of Empirical Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children.Current therapeutic research, clinical and experimentalReview
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Abstract
backgroundMaternal mortality ratio and infant mortality rate are as high as 1,576 per 100,000 live births and 78 per 1,000 live births, respectively, in Nigeria's northwestern region, where Sokoto State is located. Using applicable monitoring indicators for tracking progress in the UN/WHO framework on continuum of maternal, newborn, and child health care, this study evaluated the progress of Sokoto toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 by December 2015. The changes in outcomes in 2012-2013 associated with maternal and child health interventions were assessed.
designWe used baseline and follow-up lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) data obtained in 2012 and 2013, respectively. In each of the surveys, data were obtained from 437 households sampled from 19 LQAS locations in each of the 23 local government areas (LGAs). The composite state-level coverage estimates of the respective indicators were aggregated from estimated LGA coverage estimates.
resultsNone of the nine indicators associated with the continuum of maternal, neonatal, and child care satisfied the recommended 90% coverage target for achieving MDGs 4 and 5. Similarly, the average state coverage estimates were lower than national coverage estimates. Marginal improvements in coverage were obtained in the demand for family planning satisfied, antenatal care visits, postnatal care for mothers, and exclusive breast-feeding. Antibiotic treatment for acute pneumonia increased significantly by 12.8 percentage points. The majority of the LGAs were classifiable as low-performing, high-priority areas for intensified program intervention.
conclusionsDespite the limited time left in the countdown to December 2015, Sokoto State, Nigeria, is not on track to achieving the MDG 90% coverage of indicators tied to the continuum of maternal and child care, to reduce maternal and childhood mortality by a third by 2015. Targeted health system investments at the primary care level remain a priority, for intensive program scale-up to accelerate impact.
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