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This provides support for the conjecture that the coverage of institutional delivery in a district covaries with the level observed for its geographical neighbours.
However, the performance of the program in improving the coverage of skilled delivery and postnatal care has been limited.
Given the high level of inefficiency in the system, further progress in improving coverage of institutional delivery in the country should focus both on improving the efficiency of resource utilization especially where inefficiency levels are extremely high and on bringing new resources in to the system.
In addition to the primary study outcome which was the coverage of skilled delivery attendance, we also analyzed secondary outcomes which were ANC attendance and knowledge on Safe Motherhood issues.
This assumption, though not ideal, provides a less biased approximation of the true coverage of institutional delivery.
In countries where the coverage of institutional delivery is high, neonatal mortality is comparatively lower [ 1].
Increasing the coverage of skilled delivery care and ANC depends upon improved training and monitoring of health care providers, and greater family participation in ANC visits [ 5].
In addition, given that inefficiency was also associated inversely with literacy and urbanization and positively related with proportion of households belonging to poor households, investment in these areas can also improve coverage of institutional delivery in the country.
