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. 2021 Dec 23;11(12):e050356. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050356

Table 1.

Desk reviews and qualitative interviews conducted by ORCA thematic groups and other background information, Ethiopia, 2019/2020

Characteristics Desk review
(n=70)
Qualitative interviews (n=117)
Gender
 Male 75 (64%)
 Female 42 (36%)
Health facilities/offices visited
 Health post 45 (64%) 35 (30%)
 Health centre 16 (23%) 33 (28%)
 District hospital 1 (1%) 2 (2%)
 District health offices 8 (11%) 21 (18%)
 Zonal health office 0 (0%) 1 (1%)
 Regional health office 0 (0%) 17 (15%)
 Federal ministry of health 0 (0%) 8 (7%)
Region
 Tigray 5 (7%) 15 (13%)
 Afar 19 (27%) 37 (32%)
 Oromia 17 (24%) 25 (21%)
 SNNPR 29 (41%) 32 (27%)
 National 0 (0%) 8 (7%)
Thematic group
 Maternal health* 12 (17%) 18 (15%)
 Neonatal Survival† 17 (24%) 14 (12%)
 Immunization‡ 9 (13%) 12 (10%)
 Child nutrition§ 9 (13%) 25 (21%)
 Malaria¶ 6 (9%) 17 (15%)
 Tuberculosis** 17 (24%) 31 (27%)

*First antenatal care, fourth antenatal care, postnatal care and skilled delivery.

†Early institutional death (0–6 days), early community death (0–6 days), live birth in Kebele.

‡Pentavalent vaccine third dose, Measles, fully vaccinated.

§Vitamin A supplementation, deworming, severe acute malnutrition, growth monitoring promotion.

¶Suspected malaria, positive malaria, all malaria.

**New and relapse tuberculosis, and treated tuberculosis.

ORCA, operational research and coaching for analysts; SNNPR, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region.