Abstract:

Universal health coverage (UHC) is fundamental to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs), reducing inequalities and ensuring that no one is left behind. Timely delivery of a complete package of health and nutrition interventions to women during pregnancy and to children during early childhood is a goal of global and national health and nutrition initiatives. An index of co-coverage of health interventions has been proposed to track coverage and assess progress towards UHC.This widely used co-coverage index is a cumulative count of eight preventive health interventions that should be received by mothers and children. However, this index includes only one nutrition intervention and is thus an inadequate measure of nutrition intervention co-coverage.