As opinion polls continue to show a hung parliament remains the most probable electoral outcome, coverage of different aspects of the race has intensified at the expense of policy issues.
This resulted in a matrix of over 70 relevant indicators measuring impact (mortality and morbidity), outcome (coverage of care for all babies and coverage of treatment interventions), outputs (service quality, availability, demand, and the enabling environment) and inputs (human resources, essential medicines and supplies) (see Additional file 1).
Primary outcomes were coverage of key essential newborn care behaviours (breastfeeding, thermal care, and cord care).
While results in terms of outcome (coverage) and impact (mortality reduction) would be slower in achievement, the accomplishments achieved would be more sustainable and contribute to a viable community-based health-care system.
As proximal outcomes, such as coverage of IPTp in any delivery system using DOT, are direct outcomes of the delivery systems, the contextual factors that play a role in this outcome are integral to all delivery systems that are assessed.
Cross-country comparisons show that health outcomes improved and coverage of cost-effective interventions increased with more health workers.
The evaluation team used quantitative data from the outlet surveys on process-related outcomes, such as coverage of training and exposure to communications messages.
- Continuation of field study in a way that complete evaluation of the variables and, especially, mid and final outcomes (such as coverage of target group, continuation of service provision and client health) would be analyzed.
Orphaned children were more likely than non-vulnerable children to live in a household receiving external support and those that did had improved education outcomes, although the coverage of these programmes was modest in the study populations.
The primary outcome is full-dose coverage and the secondary outcome is immunization coverage of the five vaccines that are included in the national Expanded Program on Immunization program as well as Hib vaccine, Rotavirus vaccine and Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
