Skip to main content

Table 1 Overview of core indicators for impact evaluation

From: Protocol for the evaluation of a free health insurance card scheme for poor pregnant women in Mbeya region in Tanzania: a controlled-before and after study

Survey type

Indicators

Data source

Service Utilisation

Average utilisation rates for outpatient care Average utilisation rates for inpatient care

Household survey

% women delivering in a health facility

% of women who had any ANC

% of women who had 4 or more ANC visits

Average months pregnant at first ANC visit

% c-section rate

% newborn immunised before going home

% women who received postnatal care within 3 months of birth in a health facility

Number of PNC visits in a health facility within 3 months of birth

Average number of days after birth for first PNC visit

% of children fully immunised for polio (among appropriate age group)

% of children fully immunised for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT). (among appropriate age group)

% measles fully immunised for measles (among appropriate age group)

% women currently using a family planning method

Mean annual outpatient visits under 5

Health facility survey

Mean annual outpatient visits all age groups

Mean annual inpatient admissions under 5

Mean annual inpatient admissions all age groups

 

Mean annual ANC service utilisation (all ANC and first ANC)

Mean annual delivery service utilisation (normal delivery)

Mean annual family planning visits

Mean number of under 1 year olds receiving DPT vaccine

Mean number of under 1 year olds receiving polio vaccine

Mean number of under 1 year olds receiving measles vaccine

Mean annual number of low birth weight babies

Mean annual c-sections

Mean annual number of stillbirths

Quality of care

% patients prescribed drugs outside the facility

Household survey

% babies weighed at birth

 

Average waiting time in minutes

Exit interview/observations

Average consultation time in mins

 

% reporting overall satisfaction with quality

 

% did blood test during ANC

 

% took blood pressure during ANC

% prescribed iron tablets during ANC

% prescribed drugs for malaria during ANC

% counselling for HIV

% tested for HIV

% women examined during PNC

% babies weighed during PNC

Mean no. of clinical cadre

Health facility survey

Mean no. of nursing cadre

 

Mean no. of paramedical cadre

% facilities offering 24 h delivery services

% facilities where skilled providers attend home deliveries

 

Average no of beds in the maternity ward for health centres/hospitals

% facilities with stock out of DPT vaccine type in past 90 days

% facilities with stock out of measles vaccine in past 90 days

% facilities with oxytocin stock outs in past 90 days

% facilities with oral rehydration salts stock outs in past 90 days

% facilities with stock outs of all anti-retrovirals in past 90 days

% facilities with partograph stock outs in past 90 days

% facilities reporting all contraceptive pill types stock out in past 90 days

% facilities reporting delivery kits stock out in past 90 days

% facilities reporting broken equipment disrupted the provision of services in past 90 days

Financial protection

% patients paying for services

Household survey/observations

% individuals who are members of CHF

Household survey

% facilities with CHF

Facility survey

% eligible women with NHIF card (intervention only)

Household survey

Average out of pocket payments for outpatient care

Average out of pocket payments for inpatient care

% paying for delivery at public facility

Equity

Average out of pocket payments for outpatient care (ratio of poor to least poor)

Household survey/observations

Average out of pocket payments for inpatient care (ratio of poor to least poor)

 

Average utilisation rates for outpatient care (ratio of poor to least poor)

Average utilisation rates for inpatient care (ratio of poor to least poor)

Health

Average weight of baby in kg

Household survey

% breastfeeding within 1 h of birth