Table 1.

Background information on the survey countries (corresponding to survey year) [36–43]

	Namibia	Kenya	Tanzania	Uganda
Human development index	120	143	159	154
Country size (km2)	824,116	580,367	945,087	241,040
Population (million)	2.2	40.9	38.5	28.8
Children < 5 years (million)	0.279	6.664	6.953	6.028
Annual births (×1000)	59	1530	1408	1468
Skilled birth attendance (%)	81	42	43	39
Neonatal mortality rate (/1000)	19	27	43	32
Under-five mortality rate (/1000)	48	85	118	130
Maternal mortality ratio (/100,000)	180	360	790	430
Physicians per population (/10,000)	3.39	1.7	0.73	1.04
Total number of health workers	6600	80,464	47,000	27,487
Health expenditure/capita (USD)	467	72	29	135
Number of hospitals/health centres/dispensaries	46/49/351	450/860/4882	219/481/4679	119/164/2717
Start of IMCI (year)	1999	2000	1996	1996
IMCI coverage in districts (%)	60 (20/34)	75 (56/75)	100 (all)	100 (all)
SPA survey (year)	2009	2010	2006	2007
Number of hospitals/health centres/dispensaries in survey	45/47/319	253/153/297	128/41/442	119/81/291

IMCI Integrated management of childhood illness, SPA Service provision assessment, USD US dollars