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Table 6 Availability of MDG related service coverage indicators and their data sources

From: Indicators for Universal Health Coverage: can Kenya comply with the proposed post-2015 monitoring recommendations?

UHC Health service coverage indicators indicator

Potential tracer indicators for aggregate MDGs-related interventions (n = 22 indicators)

Indicator available

Data source.

Aggregate: A measure of MDG-related service coverage that is an aggregate of single intervention coverage measures

Need satisfied for family planning

Yes

Routine facility data/KDHS.

Skilled birth attendance

Yes

DPT3 immunisation coverage

Yes

Serious acute child illness coverage (Percentage of Health Facilities providing treatment as per the IMCI guidelines)

Yes

Supervision reports/Kenya service provision assessment survey

Household ownership of insecticide treated nets (ITNs)

Yes

Malaria Indicator survey

Tuberculosis treatment coverage

Yes

TB programme reports

Ante-retroviral treatment (ART) coverage

Yes

routine facility data (NASCOP reports)

PMTCT service coverage

Yes

Additional coverage indicators

Contraceptive use

Yes

routine facility data/KDHS

ANC 4+ visits

Yes

Institutional deliveries

Yes

Postnatal care visit within two days of childbirth (%)

Yes

Measles, BCG, polio, hepatitis B, Influenza coverage among older people

No

 

Suspected pneumonia treated with antibiotic

Yes

routine facility data/KDHS

Diarrhoea treated with oral rehydration salts (ORS)

Yes

Coverage of exclusive breast feeding

Yes

KDHS

Intermittent prevention treatment (IPT) during pregnancy

Yes

Malaria programme reports/ malaria indicator survey

Fever treated with antimalarials

Yes

Routine facility data/Malaria indicator survey/KDHS

Households with indoor residual spraying (IRS).

Yes

Malaria indicator survey

TB case detection rate (the number of estimated new TB cases detected in a given year using the DOTS approach) expressed as a percentage of all new TB cases)

Yes

TB programme reports

Male circumcision rates

Yes

KAIS

Condom use at higher risk sex

Yes

KAIS

Equity: A measure of MDG-related service coverage for the poorest 40% of the population

 

Yes

Surveys mentioned above.

  1. KAIS: Kenya AIDS Indicator survey; KDHS: Kenya demographic health survey; KSPA: Kenya service provision assessment survey; NASCOP: National AIDS and STI Control Programme.
  2. Data sourced from various Government of Kenya (GoK) documents [22],[32],[39],[43],[44],[46]-[50].