The impact of eliminating within-country inequality in health coverage on maternal and child mortality: a Lives Saved Tool analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inequality in healthcare across population groups in low-income countries is a growing topic of interest in global health. The Lives Saved Tool (LiST), which uses health intervention coverage to model maternal, neonatal, and child health outcomes such as mortality rates, can be used to analyze the impact of within-country inequality.

Methods

Data from nationally representative household surveys (98 surveys conducted between 1998 and 2014), disaggregated by wealth quintile, were used to create a LiST analysis that models the impact of scaling up health intervention coverage for the entire country from the national average to the rate of the top wealth quintile (richest 20% of the population). Interventions for which household survey data are available were used as

SUBMITTER: Clermont A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5688502 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature