Table 1 Definition of maternal and newborn health care indicators
Indicator | Definition |
|---|---|
Women’s care seeking behavior | |
 Received four or more antenatal care visits | The percentage of women who went to a health facility for antenatal care at least four times during last pregnancy |
 Delivery at health facility | The percentage of women who had their last childbirth at a health facility with skilled birth attendants |
Providers’ service provision behavior | |
 Complete antenatal care | The percentage of women who had their blood pressure measured, blood tested and urine tested during last pregnancy |
 Early postnatal care | The percentage of women who were visited by HEWs at home for postnatal care or newborn care within 48 h of last childbirth (among facility and home births. Women discharged from health facilities 6 hours after delivery) |
Women’s care seeking and providers’ service provision behavior | |
 Neonatal tetanus protected childbirth | The percentage of women whose last childbirth was protected against neonatal tetanus |
Households’ newborn care practices | |
 Practiced clean cord care of their newborn | The percentage who were not assisted by skilled birth attendants, but who cut the umbilical cord of their last newborn with a sterile instrument, tied the cut end of the cord with sterile thread and applied nothing to the cut end of the umbilical cord |
 Immediate initiation of breastfeeding | The percentage of women who were not assisted by skilled birth attendants, but who initiated breastfeeding their newborn immediately after birth |