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Table 1 Core Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Impact Indicators

From: The Ghana essential health interventions program: a plausibility trial of the impact of health systems strengthening on maternal & child survival

Category

Indicator

Mortality rates (by gender of child)

• Neonatal mortality rate

• Infant mortality rate

• Under-5 cumulative mortality rate (q5 )

• Estimated under-5cause specific mortality rate for malaria, acute respiratory infections

Maternal Health Behavior (last live birth)

• Percent of women who made their first ANC visit before the fourth month

• Percent of pregnant women who attended four or more ANC visits

• Percent of pregnant women who attended postnatal care visit

• Percent of women who deliver in a health facility

• Proportion of C-sections among last born.

Newborn Health

• Percent of newborns attending postnatal care visits

• Percent of newborns breastfed within 1 hour of birth

• Percent of women that report having practiced at least three ENC behaviors

Under-5 child health

• Percent episodes of diarrhea in children under 5 treated with ORS + zinc

• Percent episodes of cough/pneumonia in children under 5treated with antibiotics

• Percent of febrile malaria episodes among children under five treated within 24 hours of onset

Family planning and fertility

• Contraceptive prevalence rate

• Unmet need for family planning

• Age specific and total fertility rates