Examples of Analyses from Recent Needs Assessments
Indicator: Availability of comprehensive and basic EmOC facilities Recommendation: for every 500,000 population we should have a minimum of 5 EmONC facilities, where at least 1 is Comprehensive Source: Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and AMDD (June 2009)
Minimum number of facilities with EmOC Availability of facilities with EmOC: Sofala, Mozambique, 2006 Source: Santos et al. (2006).
Availability of facilities with EmOC: Ethiopia, 2008 Source: FMOH Ethiopia. (2008). Preliminary Results.
Fulfillment of recommended minimum number of EmOC facilities: Angola 2007 Source: MoH, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO. (2007). Preliminary Results.
How many hospitals provide CEmOC? Ethiopia 2009 Hospitals Source: FMOH Ethiopia. (2008). Preliminary Results.
How many health centers provide BEmOC? Ethiopia 2009 Health Centers Source: FMOH Ethiopia. (2008). Preliminary Results.
Facilities that performed the Signal Function in the last 3 months: Angola 2007 Source: MoH, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO. (2007). Preliminary Results.
Nurses and Midwives: Numbers trained and not yet trained in BEmOC: Ethiopia 2009 Source: FMOH Ethiopia. (2008). Preliminary Results.
Availability of cesarean delivery: Angola 2007 Source: MOH, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO. (2007). Preliminary Results.
Institutional cesarean delivery rate by sector: Ethiopia 2009 Source: FMOH Ethiopia. (2008). Preliminary Results.
Availability of anticonvulsants among facilities that had used them in the last 12 months: Angola 2007 Source: MOH, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO. (2007). Preliminary Results.
Case fatality rates for eclampsia: Angola 2007 Source: MOH, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO. (2007). Preliminary Results.
Percent of facilities with items needed for BEmOC, by type of facility: Ethiopia 2009 Source: FMOH Ethiopia. (2008). Preliminary Results.
Causes of maternal death: Angola 2007 N=1,410 Source: MOH, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO. (2007). Preliminary Results.
Direct causes of maternal deaths: Angola 2007 N=860 Source: MOH, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO. (2007). Preliminary Results.
Case fatality rates by complication: Sofala, Mozambique Source: Santos et al. (2006).