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December 06, 2016

The composite coverage index is easy to calculate and could be useful for monitoring progress and inequalities in universal health coverage

composite coverage index

A series of equiplots in which the two summary indices and coverage levels of the eight additional Countdown indicators are presented by wealth quintiles of the populations for the nine selected countries. In the equiplots, the poorest and richest quintiles are shown connected by a horizontal line. When one of the circles is outside this line (e.g. co-coverage with 6+ interventions in Congo, or oral rehydration therapy in Haiti), this indicates that the inequality pattern is not stepwise and monotonic. Inequalities according to co-coverage with 6+ interventions were wider than those for the composite coverage index in most countries. Read more: Bull World Health Organ. 2016;94:903-12.