Equity in coverage indicates the difference in effective coverage of maternal and child health care services based on a mother's level of education.
Indicators
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Coverage of RMNCH services by mother's education
Coverage of RMNCH services, by mother's education, which assesses equity in coverage indicates the difference in effective coverage of maternal and child health care services based on a mother’s level of education.
Related Concepts
Delivering high-quality primary health care requires many elements of the health system working effectively together. This mapping explores how different concepts with the framework relate to one another.
Upstream elements are those that are required to develop or improve a particular concept. Absence or poor performance of an upstream element is expected to negatively impact the performance of the concept of focus.
Complementary elements are those where improvements or developments in this area will be mutually beneficial to the concept of focus but not required for improvement.
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Multi-Sectoral Approach
Implementors must be held accountable in delivering equitable PHC services.
Equitable financial, geographic, and timely access to all populations.
Ensuring care is safe for all is critical in the coverage of RMNCH services.
Ensuring care is timely for all is critical to equitable access.
Ensuring that everyone would have access to health services with a specific focus on covering marginalized populations is essential to equity.
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Equity in Distribution of Health Workers
Equitable geographic access to all populations.
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Perceived Access Barriers Due to Cost
Equitable financial access impacts access to RMNCH services.
Equity in Coverage of RMNCH Services
Workforce trained to appropriately delivered RMNCH services are available and distributed for increased coverage and access
First Contact Accessibility
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Strengthening the capacity of a primary care system to serve as the first point of contact brings PHC services closer to the people.
Consideration of the contextual factors around the patients such as social, career, cultures, etc.
Population Health Management
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Making sure that marginalized groups are specifically managed, and not left behind, actively reaching out to proactively identify individuals who would benefit from RMNCH care
Service Availability & Readiness
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Respect and trust despite patient (or provider) background or culture is complimentary to equitable service delivery.
Life Expectancy at Birth, in Years
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Increased RMNCH coverage can improve health status.
Increased RMNCH coverage can improve health status.
Mortality per 1,000 Live Births
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Increased RMNCH coverage can improve health status.
Premature NCD Mortality
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Increased RMNCH coverage can improve health status.
Improvement Strategies
Explore the Improvement Strategies for approaches to addressing Capacity and Performance concepts that influence Impact.
Potential Funding opportunities
Interested in understanding how this topic intersects with investment opportunities from major funding streams? The Global Frameworks Mapping provides a starting point to help identify and make connections between key PHC topics, relevant funding initiatives, and investment cases.
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Universal Health Coverage
- "Priority Area 1: ramp up investments in affordable, quality primary healthcare"
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UNICEF Health Strategy 2016-2030
- Action 1: Advocate for every child’s right to health
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UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025
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UHC in Africa: A Framework for Action
- 3. Equity: Targeting the Poor and Marginalized and Leaving No One Behind
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The UNICEF Health Systems Strengthening Approach
- "3. Develop national, equity-focused, RMNCAHN-related policies, strategies, planning, financing and approaches to budgeting"
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Supplies Partnership 2021-2030
- Outcome 1: Increase availability of quality-assured reproductive health commodities
- Outcome 2: Ensure reproductive health commodities reach the last mile and promote harmonization and integration of supply systems in countries
- Goal 2A: Help countries extend immunisation services to regularly reach under-immunised and zero-dose children to build a stronger primary health care platform
- "Goal 2C: Work with countries and communities to build resilient demand, and to identify and address gender-related barriers to immunisation"
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Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
- Area of Focus 1: Generating evidence
- Area of Focus 2: Developing and tesing new innovations
- Area of Focus 3: Support adoption of proven innovations
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Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund 2018-2022
- "Outcome 1: Midwifery - Midwives deliver right based quality sexual and reproductive health information and services that are women centered, equitable, accountable, and accessible."
- "Outcome 2: EmONC: Referral maternity facilities are staffed with skilled attendants at birth and monitored to deliver quality and accessible essential sexual and reproductive healthcare, including EmONC."
- Outcome 3: MPDSR: Causes of maternal and perinatal deaths are identified and addressed through MPDSR programmes.
- Outcome 4: Quality sexual and reproductive health information and services are accessible to prevent and treat obstetric fistula and other obstetric morbidities.
- Area of Focus 4: Contraceptive technology research and development
- "Cross-cutting: gender equality, inclusion, and diversity"
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HIV and Universal Health Coverage - A guide for civil society
- 7. Put equity at the center by reaching the people being left behind
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High-Performance Health-Financing for Universal Health Coverage: Driving Sustainable, Inclusive Growth in the 21st Century
- 1. Building Human Capital
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Global Financing Facility
- Objective 1: Finance national RMNCAH scale-up plans and measure results
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Global Delivery Programs
- "Area of Focus 1: Health funds and partnership - provide more equitable, high-quality care that meets the needs of their entire population, particularly women, children, and the most vulnerable"
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Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026
- "Result Area 3: ""Tailored, integrated and differentiated vertical transmission and paediatric service delivery for women and children, particularly for adolescent girls and young women in locations with high HIV incidence"""
- "Cross-cutting Issue 4: Stigma, discrimination, human rights, and gender equality"
- HIV prevention: Adolescent girls and young women in high prevalence settings
- Cross cutting: Programs to remove human rights-related barriers to health services
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2020-2022 Strategic Initiatives
- Strategic Objective 3: Promote and Protect Human Rights and Gender Equality
- "Strategic Objective 1: Maximize Impact against HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Adolescent Girls and Young Women"
