essential service
additional service
The WHOMCS Secondary Analysis Committee agreed that the classifying variables across facilities (such as level of facility, rurality, etc) may not be defined consistently across countries and may not discriminate facilities appropriately. It is therefore best to describe these terms as "self-reported level of facility" or "self-reported location of facility"
The WHO Global Survey analysis group developed a "Facility Capacity Index", on the basis of the availability of a range of institutional services, interventions and resources.
We have updated this Index to accommodate the differences in variables available in the MCS compared to the Global Survey, but used the same methodology of categorizing variables as "Essential services" or "Additional services". We also conducted a short, online survey to confirm how members of the Network perceived these variables as either essential or additional services