Table 1.

Definition of Health Extension Program outreach activity and RMNCH care practice indicators

Indicator	Definition
(1) HEP outreach activity
Households with latrine	The percentage of households with functioning latrine
Households visited by HEW	The percentage of respondents whose households were visited by HEWs to discuss about health related issues within six months prior to the survey
Households with family health card	The percentage of respondents whose households have Family Health Card. Distributed by HEWs to all women of reproductive age in a household, the cards are used as a tool to provide health education, such as promoting maternal, newborn and child health
(2) RMNCH care practices
(i) Family planning
Contraceptive prevalence rate	The percentage of married (or in union) women of reproductive age and/or their partners who were using any method of contraception to delay or avoid getting pregnant during the survey
(ii) Maternal and newborn health
Received four or more ANC visits	The percentage of women who went to a health facility for antenatal care at least four times during last pregnancy
Neonatal tetanus protected childbirth	The percentage of women whose last childbirth was protected against neonatal tetanus
Delivery at health facility	The percentage of women who gave their last childbirth at a health facility
Early PNC	The percentage of women who were visited by HEWs at home for PNC or newborn care within 48 h of last childbirth
Practiced clean cord care for their newborn	The percentage of women without skilled birth attendance, who cut the umbilical cord of their last newborn with a sterile instrument, tied the cut end of the cord with sterile thread, and applied nothing to the cut end of the umbilical cord
Practiced thermal care for their newborn	The percentage of women without skilled birth attendance, who dried and wrapped their last newborn immediately after birth, delayed bathing the newborn by six hours or more, and always maintained skin-to-skin contact with the baby
Immediate breastfeeding	The percentage of women without skilled birth attendance, but who initiated breastfeeding the newborn immediately after birth
(iii) Childhood immunization
Children received all vaccines	The percentage of children between 12 and 23 months who received all childhood vaccines
Dropout	The percentage of children between 12 and 23 months who dropped out between Penta 1 and Penta 3 vaccines

ANC Antenatal care, HEP Health Extension Program, HEW Health extension worker, PNC Postnatal care, RMNCH Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health