Childhood Immunization Coverage and Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multicounty Analysis Technical Report 2025
Countdown to 2030 Immunization Study Technical report 2025
Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) Strategies for Essential and Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care: Kenya Synthesis Report
Kenya CD MNH study_Report-KENYA 07062024
Kenya: Maternal and Newborn Health Care Policy Brief
Kenya MNH Policy Brief_Dec192024
Antenatal Care Readiness Profiles (2022)
Official Country Profiles – ANC Readiness_completed_aug12022_for_website
Improving Measurement of Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Rates in the Population through Health Facility Data
MMR Workshop Report_Final_30092024_formattedv2
How Low-cost Private Health Facilities are Saving Newborns with Targeted Neonatal Emergency Obstetric Care Services in Nairobi Slums: Successes and Remaining Challenges
This blog post by Godfred Adero , a Countdown researcher, summarizes key findings from the urban health study in Nairobi, Kenya. Adequate neonatal Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) services are critical to ensure that newborn lives are saved and neonatal mortality targets are met. Countless newborn lives are still lost in...
Quality of Maternal and Newborn Health Services in Selected Urban Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya – Policy Brief
https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nairobi-Urban-Health-Policy-Brief.pdf
Countdown to 2030 country analysis: Synthesis and a way forward
CAM 2023 synthesis report Feb 2024 formatted
Intimate partner violence in 46 low-income and middle-income countries: an appraisal of the most vulnerable groups of women using national health surveys
Coll CVN, Ewerling F, García-Moreno C, et al
Does women’s mobile phone ownership matter for health? Evidence from 15 countries
LeFevre AE, Shah N, Bashingwa JJH, et al
Gender bias in careseeking practices in 57 low and middle income countries
Costa JC, Wehrmeister FC, Barros AJD, Victora CG.
Contraception in adolescence: the influence of parity and marital status on contraceptive use in 73 low-and middle-income countries
Coll CVN, Ewerling F, Hellwig F, et al.
11 years of tracking aid to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: estimates and analysis for 2003-13 from the Countdown to 2015
Grollman C, Arregoces L, Mart__nez-_Ålvarez M, Pitt C, Mills A, Borghi J.
Data Resource Profile: Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival
Requejo J, Victora C, Bryce J.
Timing and number of antenatal care contacts in low and middle-income countries: Analysis in the Countdown to 2030 priority countries
Jiwani SS, Amouzou A, Carvajal L, Chou D, Keita Y, Moran AC, Requejo JYaya S, Vaz LME, and Boerma T
Generating statistics from health facility data: the state of routine health information systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
Ma_Øga A, Jiwani SS, Mutua MK, et al.
Progress and priorities for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Kenya: a Countdown to 2015 country case study
Keats EC, Ngugi A, Macharia W, Akseer N, Khaemba EN, Bhatti Z, Rizvi A, Tole J, Bhutta ZA.
Monitoring maternal, newborn and child health: understanding key progress indicators
This report has been co-produced by Countdown to 2015 and the Health Metrics Network.
Strong community-based health systems and national governance predict improvement in coverage of oral rehydration solution (ORS): a multilevel longitudinal model
Andrus A, Cohen R, Carvajal-Aguirre L, Arifeen SE, and Weiss W
Advances in the measurement of coverage for RMNCH and nutrition: from contact to effective coverage
Amouzou A, Leslie HH, Ram M On behalf of the Countdown Coverage Technical Working Group, et al
Trends in the alignment and harmonization of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health funding, 2008-13.
Martinez-Alvarez M, Acharya A, Arregoces L, Brearley L, Pitt C, Grollman C, Borghi J.
Measuring the coverage of nutrition interventions along the continuum of care: time to act at scale
Gillespie S, Menon P, Heidkamp R, et al
Health workforce metrics pre- and post-2015: a stimulus to public policy and planning
Pozo-Martin F, Nove A, Castro Lopes S, Campbell J, Buchan J, Dussault G, Kunjumen T, Cometto G, Siyam A.
Discordance in postnatal care between mothers and newborns: Measurement artifact or missed opportunity?
Amouzou A, Hazel E, Vaz L, Sanni Y, and Moran AC
Socioeconomic inequalities in skilled birth attendance and child stunting in selected low and middle income countries: Wealth quintiles or deciles?
Wong KLM, Restrepo-M_©ndez MC, Barros AJD, Victora CG.
Geospatial estimation of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health indicators: a systematic review of methodological aspects of studies based on household surveys
Ferreira LZ, Blumenberg C, Utazi CE, Nilsen K, Hartwig FP, Tatem AJ, et al
Socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among women aged 20-49 in low- and middle-income countries
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Who Delivers without Water? A Multi Country Analysis of Water and Sanitation in the Childbirth Environment
Gon G, Restrepo-M_©ndez MC, Campbell,OMR, Barros AJD, Woodd S, Benova L, (2016)
Socio-demographic and economic inequalities in modern contraception in 11 low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of the PMA2020 surveys.
Blumenberg C, Hellwig F, Ewerling F, Barros AJD
Data quality self-assessment of child health and sexual reproductive health indicators in Botswana, 2016-2017
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Inequalities in the coverage of place of delivery and skilled birth attendance: analyses of cross-sectional surveys in 80 low and middle-income countries.
Joseph G, Silva ICM, Wehrmeister FC, Barros AJD, Victora CG.
Trends and inequalities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and adult women in sub-Saharan Africa since 2000: a cross-sectional series study
Jiwani SS, Gatica-Domínguez G, Crochemore-Silva I, et al
Inequalities in full immunization coverage: trends in low- and middle-income countries
Restrepo-Mendez MC, Barros AJ, Wong KL, Johnson HL, Pariyo G, Franca GV, et al.
Wealth-related inequalities in the coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in 36 countries in the African Region
Wehrmeister FC, Fay_© CM, da Silva ICM, et al.
Socioeconomic Inequalities Persist Despite Declining Stunting Prevalence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Countdown to 2030 for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition
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Reaching all women, children, and adolescents with essential health interventions by 2030
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Donor funding for family planning: levels and trends between 2003 and 2013
Grollman C, Cavallaro FL, Duclos D, Bakare V, Mart__nez _Ålvarez M, Borghi J.
Countries’ progress for women’s and children’s health in the Millennium Development Goal era: the Countdown to 2015 experience
Berman, P., Requejo, J., Bhutta, Z.A. et al.
Are the poorest poor being left behind? Estimating global inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
Barros AJD, Wehrmeister FC, Ferreira LZ, et al.
Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what have we learned about processes and progress towards MDGs 4 and 5?
Moucheraud, C., Owen, H., Singh, N.S. et al.
Absolute income is a better predictor of coverage by skilled birth attendance than relative wealth quintiles in a multicountry analysis: comparison of 100 low- and middle-income countries
Joseph G, da Silva ICM, Fink G, Barros AJD, Victora CG.
How can we realise the full potential of health systems for nutrition?
Heidkamp RA, Wilson E, Menon P, Kuo H, Walton S, Gatica-Domínguez G et al.
Harmful practices in the management of childhood diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Carter E, Bryce J, Perin J, Newby H.
Structural determinants of gender inequality: why they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health
George AS, Amin A, de Abreu Lopes CM, Ravindran TKS
Accelerating Kenya’s progress to 2030: understanding the determinants of under-five mortality from 1990 to 2015
Keats EC, Macharia W, Singh NS, et al.
State of inequality: Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
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Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa: who is left behind?
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Gender bias in under-five mortality in low/middle-income countries.
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Time trends in socio-economic inequalities in stunting prevalence: analyses of repeated national surveys
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