September 5, 2025Journal of Global HealthOpen Access

Effective coverage of newborn postnatal care: assessing the service contact-content gap in 32 low- and middle-income countries using household survey data

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Analysis reveals significant contact-content gaps in newborn care service coverage across LMICs.

The median effective coverage of newborn postnatal care was only 27.5%, with the lowest at 2.1% in Burundi.
Contact-content gaps reached as high as 52.6 percentage points, underscoring poor quality of care.
Significant inequalities were observed, with higher effective coverage favoring older and wealthier mothers.
Addressing these gaps in content of care is crucial for improving newborn survival rates across all demographics.

Jiwani et al. (2025) studied this question.

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