Fig 1.
The continuum of care framework for maternal, new-born and child health in South Africa [10].
Fig 2.
Dimensions and types of indicators used to develop the continuum of care index for maternal health.
Table 1.
The continuum of care for maternal health index, sub- indices and indicators for North West Province, South Africa, in the period 2013–2017.
Fig 3.
Comprehensive continuum of care index (C3MHindex) scores by districts over a five-year period 2013–2017.
Fig 4.
Sub-index and C3MH index scores by districts in 2016.
BN = Bojanala Platinum District, KK = Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, RSM = Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, NMM = Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, SDOH = Social determinants of health.
Table 2.
Spearman rank correlation between alternatives for indicator standardization and aggregation at district level.
Table 3.
Spearman rank correlation coefficients of index values when dropping one indicator at a time to compute index.
Fig 5.
Parallel analysis scree plot for indicators of the continuum of care for maternal health in North West province South Africa.
Table 4.
Exploratory factor analysis of the items of the continuum of care service delivery framework.