Effective coverage is defined as the proportion of a population in need of a health intervention that receives it with sufficient quality to achieve the intervention’s intended health gain. While several approaches have been proposed to measure effective coverage, most are statistically derived, triangulate multiple data sources, and use complex analytic approaches.

MOMENTUM’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Innovation, and Learning Working Group held a webinar, “Establishing Routine Health Care Quality Monitoring and Improvement” on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Attendees heard from Dr. Shogo Kubota about an approach used in Lao PDR by the World Health Organization (WHO) in partnership with the government of Lao PDR to monitor quality service delivery and use data for service improvements. Following Dr. Kubota’s presentation, webinar attendees and the Working Group discussed the implications of this approach for measuring effective coverage.

You can watch a recording of the webinar below. Download the slides here. 

Dr. Shogo Kubota is currently the coordinator of Maternal Child Health and Quality Safety for the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific. From 2016 to 2023, he served as the team lead of the Reproductive, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Unit for the WHO Lao PDR Country Office, where he supported the government on maternal and child health, quality of health care, and community engagement for health.