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Table 1 Definition of Health Extension Program outreach activity and RMNCH care practice indicators

From: Correlates of the Women’s Development Army strategy implementation strength with household reproductive, maternal, newborn and child healthcare practices: a cross-sectional study in four regions of Ethiopia

Indicator

Definition

(1) HEP outreach activity

 Households with latrine

The percentage of households with functioning latrine

 Households visited by HEW

The percentage of respondents whose households were visited by HEWs to discuss about health related issues within six months prior to the survey

 Households with family health card

The percentage of respondents whose households have Family Health Card. Distributed by HEWs to all women of reproductive age in a household, the cards are used as a tool to provide health education, such as promoting maternal, newborn and child health

(2) RMNCH care practices

 (i) Family planning

  Contraceptive prevalence rate

The percentage of married (or in union) women of reproductive age and/or their partners who were using any method of contraception to delay or avoid getting pregnant during the survey

 (ii) Maternal and newborn health

  Received four or more ANC visits

The percentage of women who went to a health facility for antenatal care at least four times during last pregnancy

  Neonatal tetanus protected childbirth

The percentage of women whose last childbirth was protected against neonatal tetanus

  Delivery at health facility

The percentage of women who gave their last childbirth at a health facility

  Early PNC

The percentage of women who were visited by HEWs at home for PNC or newborn care within 48 h of last childbirth

  Practiced clean cord care for their newborn

The percentage of women without skilled birth attendance, who cut the umbilical cord of their last newborn with a sterile instrument, tied the cut end of the cord with sterile thread, and applied nothing to the cut end of the umbilical cord

  Practiced thermal care for their newborn

The percentage of women without skilled birth attendance, who dried and wrapped their last newborn immediately after birth, delayed bathing the newborn by six hours or more, and always maintained skin-to-skin contact with the baby

  Immediate breastfeeding

The percentage of women without skilled birth attendance, but who initiated breastfeeding the newborn immediately after birth

 (iii) Childhood immunization

  Children received all vaccines

The percentage of children between 12 and 23 months who received all childhood vaccines

  Dropout

The percentage of children between 12 and 23 months who dropped out between Penta 1 and Penta 3 vaccines

  1. ANC Antenatal care, HEP Health Extension Program, HEW Health extension worker, PNC Postnatal care, RMNCH Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health