Publications by authors named "Tyler Andrew Porth"

Article Synopsis
  • - Subnational inequalities in health coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) have been largely overlooked in tracking health progress, despite their importance for effective health planning and intervention delivery in countries.
  • - The study reveals significant disparities in RMNCH coverage across 39 sub-Saharan African nations, highlighting different inequality patterns based on national coverage levels and regional performance.
  • - While some countries have made strides in reducing these inequalities from 2004 to 2015, many still exhibit persistent gaps, often linked to factors like poor governance and conflict, necessitating targeted efforts to ensure essential health interventions reach all populations.
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Health facility data are a critical source of local and continuous health statistics. Countries have introduced web-based information systems that facilitate data management, analysis, use and visualisation of health facility data. Working with teams of Ministry of Health and country public health institutions analysts from 14 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, we explored data quality using national-level and subnational-level (mostly district) data for the period 2013-2017.

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