Summary indices for monitoring universal coverage in maternal and child health care

To compare two summary indicators for monitoring universal coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care.Using our experience of the Countdown to 2015 initiative, we describe the characteristics of the composite coverage index (a weighted average of eight preventive and curative interventions along the continuum of care) and co-coverage index (a cumulative count of eight preventive interventions that should be received by all...