ReviewThe Lancet. Global health2020
Effective coverage measurement in maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition: progress, future prospects, and implications for quality health systems.
Review in The Lancet. Global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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117 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effective treatment coverage for sick young infants with possible serious bacterial infection when referral not feasible in low-and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Effective coverage measurements and cascade for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in high-income countries: systematic review.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- A rapid systematic review and evidence synthesis of effective coverage measures and cascades for childbirth, newborn and child health in low- and middle-income countries.Journal of global health · 2022Pooled it
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- "If they were telling us to go, we will go": factors associated with effective postnatal care coverage before and after discharge - a mixed-methods study in rural western Kenya.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Effective coverage practice in Ethiopia.BMJ global health · 2026Review
- Unmet needs for hypertension care cascade in older adults and socioeconomic disparities: evidence from five national cohorts.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Fragmented healthcare and effective maternal coverage in Mexico, 2009-2023.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Redefining ANC Coverage: Tracking Trends and Inequities With a Complete Contact-And-Content Index from MICS Data, Vietnam 2011, 2014, and 2021.Health services insights · 2026Article
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- How effective coverage has been used to measure quality in maternal and child health services in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.BMJ public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Intervention coverage-the proportion of the population with a health-care need who receive care-does not account for intervention quality and potentially overestimates health benefits of services provided to populations. Effective coverage introduces the dimension of quality of care to the measurement of intervention coverage. Many definitions and methodological approaches to measuring effective coverage have been developed, resulting in confusion over definition, calculation, interpretation, and monitoring of these measures. To develop a consensus on the definition and measurement of effective coverage for maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (MNCAHN), WHO and UNICEF convened a group of experts, the Effective Coverage Think Tank Group, to make recommendations for standardising the definition of effective coverage, measurement approaches for effective coverage, indicators of effective coverage in MNCAHN, and to develop future effective coverage research priorities. Via a series of consultations, the group recommended that effective coverage be defined as the proportion of a population in need of a service that resulted in a positive health outcome from the service. The proposed effective coverage measures and care cascade steps can be applied to further develop effective coverage measures across a broad range of MNCAHN services. Furthermore, advances in measurement of effective coverage could improve monitoring efforts towards the achievement of universal health coverage.
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