Antenatal care in LMICs: what the data reveal
Affiliations & Notes
aSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
bIndependent Consultant, Maternal and Newborn Health, Cambridge, UK
Article Info
Publication History:
Published May 2026
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(26)00052-5 External LinkAlso available on ScienceD...
This study employs a robust spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression model to analyze antenatal care trends, drawing on a large dataset of 643 surveys across 131 LMICs. The methodology is statistically rigorous, though the reliance on self-reported survey data introduces potential recall bias. The authors acknowledge this limitation, which is a common challenge in population-based health research. A peer reviewer might flag the exclusion of stillbirths from coverage metrics as a critical gap, ...
