Improved measurement for mothers, newborns and children in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

An urgent priority in maternal, newborn and child health is to accelerate the scale–up of cost–effective essential interventions, especially during labor, the immediate postnatal period and for the treatment of serious infectious diseases and acute malnutrition. Tracking intervention coverage is a key activity to support scale– up and in this paper we examine priorities in coverage measurement, distinguishing between essential interventions that can be measured now and those that require methodological development.

Keywords

• Measurements
• mothers
• newborns
• children
• SDGs