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Maternal and Child

Countries have routinely monitored the coverage of interventions and utilisation of services to improve progress towards achieving Maternal and child health goals. Governments and various initiatives have tried to understand their predictors at a national and regional level by leveraging varied data source surveys.  Our work aims to extend these approaches to provide evidence of inequity in access to interventions at a subnational level by applying model-based geostatistical methods, small-area estimation models and a range of spatial analysis techniques. We analyse data on coverage of health interventions across socioeconomic status, gender, education, and geography and critical drivers of change such as policy, finance, and other health system dimensions.

Spatial access inequities and childhood immunization uptake in Kenya
Spatial accessibility to the nearest immunizing health facilities in Kenya based on two travelling scenarios....
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Determinants of subnational disparities in antenatal care utilisation
Map showing the coverage of at least 4 ANC visits at sub-county level based on the 2014 Kenya, Demographic...
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Figure 3 Ranking of factors associated with child survival in 2014 from low intervention coverage or high disease prevalence (red) to high intervention coverage or low disease prevalence (green)

Ranking of factors associated with child survival in 2014 from low intervention coverage or high disease prevalence (red) to high intervention coverage or low disease prevalence (green).

Figure 4 A subset of 3 factors associated with child survival including health facility delivery, malaria infection prevalence and three doses of diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis (DPT) vaccine

A subset of 3 factors associated with child survival including health facility delivery, malaria infection prevalence and three doses of diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis (DPT) vaccine.