Table 2 Examples of work in progress on mapping for MNH
From: The geography of maternal and newborn health: the state of the art
Who? | What | Where? | |
|---|---|---|---|
Saving Mothers Giving Life (SMGL)/ Centers for Disease Control (CDC) | Thematic Mapping | Maps on maternal mortality and access to facilities | Uganda |
Evidence for Action (E4A) [68]/ White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) [69] | Thematic Mapping | Thematic mapping of selected indicator at the sub national level (2013) | Ethiopia |
| Â | Â | Atlas of Birth, extensive mapping. | Ghana |
Countdown to 2015 [70] | Thematic Mapping | Country case study – focus on maternal mortality reduction | Bangladesh |
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) | Thematic Mapping | Sharpening Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) plans. Using Dev Info maps for program planning | Senegal |
USAID | Thematic Mapping, Spatial analysis and modeling | Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) availability and accessibility coverage (In collaboration with FHI 360, MEASURE Evaluation and AMDD) | Mozambique and Ethiopia |
USAID | Spatial analysis | MNH Mapping Modelling sub-national estimates from 2010 Bangladesh Maternal Mortality Survey; Other work under development | Bangladesh |
Health 4+ (H4+)/ Technical Working Group and Secretariat + Muskoka [71] | Spatial analysis and modelling | High Burden Countries Initiative (HBCI) Midwifery Workforce Assessment (2012–13). Determining sub-national population needs (through a proxy of the estimated number of pregnancies) in relation to the supply of EmOC facilities and the MNH workforce. | Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India (2 States), Mozambique (in collaboration with USAID), Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo |
USAID | Spatial analysis and modelling | Analysis of EmOC availability and accessibility coverage; feasibility of real time mapping. | Malawi |
Southampton University | Spatial analysis and modelling | EmOC availability and accessibility coverage. | Ghana |
World Health Organization (WHO) | Spatial analysis and modelling | EmOC availability and accessibility coverage as well as scaling up costing analysis | Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Laos, Malawi, Philippines |