Factors Affecting Quality of Care in Maternal and Child Health in Timor-Leste: A Scoping Review.

Timor-Leste faces many challenges implementing quality maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services due to resource constraints and socio-cultural factors that disproportionately affect the health of women and children. A scoping review was conducted to map the quality of MNCH services against WHO quality standards on: 1. Provision of care, 2.

Measuring coverage in MNCH: a prospective validation study in Pakistan and Bangladesh on measuring correct treatment of childhood pneumonia.

Background: Antibiotic treatment for pneumonia as measured by Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is a key indicator for tracking progress in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4. Concerns about the validity of this indicator led us to perform an evaluation in urban and rural settings in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Methods And Findings: Caregivers of 950 children under 5 y with pneumonia and 980 with "no pneumonia" were identified in urban and rural settings and allocated for DHS/MICS questions 2 or 4 wk later.