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Reports from low-income countries, including Ethiopia, have shown inequities in these practices, but their link to place of birth remains insufficiently explored. We aimed to analyze the wealth-based equity of selected essential newborn care practices, i.e., skin-to-skin care, delayed bathing, proper cord care, and timely breastfeeding initiation, among neonates born in health facilities and homes in Ethiopia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Performance Monitoring for Action Ethiopia 2019\u20132020 survey was conducted in five regions, representing 90% of the country\u2019s population, and included data on 2,493 newborns. Household wealth quintiles were derived using principal component analysis of asset ownership. We analyzed the wealth-based equity of selected essential newborn care practices for facility and home deliveries using equiplot, equity gaps, equity ratios, and concentration indices.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Overall, skin-to-skin care and delayed bathing showed minimal inequities among babies born in health facilities. When comparing the extreme wealth groups, minor socio-economic differences were observed in delayed bathing and timely breastfeeding initiation. When wealth was treated as a continuous variable across all respondents, delayed bathing and proper cord care were more common in better-off households. For home births, the equiplots showed that all selected essential newborn care practices were more frequent among the least poor groups. While comparing the extreme wealth groups, socio-economic inequities were evident in skin-to-skin care and delayed bathing practices. When wealth was considered a continuous variable, skin-to-skin care and delayed bathing were more common among better-off households.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The coverage of selected essential newborn care practices was higher in facility deliveries. There were minimal socio-economic differences in newborn care for facility births, while inequities in skin-to-skin care and delayed bathing were prominent in home births. Initiatives should aim to enhance equity in newborn care within health facilities while promoting facility deliveries and improving newborn care practices at home to achieve equitable newborn care in Ethiopia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0338193","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,5]],"date-time":"2025-12-05T18:55:49Z","timestamp":1764960949000},"page":"e0338193","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Wealth-based equity in essential newborn care practices in Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7024-185X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Tadesse Guadu","family":"Delele","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lars \u00c5ke","family":"Persson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4647-5178","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Kassahun Alemu","family":"Gelaye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joanna","family":"Schellenberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Seblewengel","family":"Lemma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Atkure","family":"Defar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Theodros","family":"Getachew","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Girum","family":"Taye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Solomon","family":"Shiferaw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zewditu","family":"Abdissa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Amare","family":"Tariku","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Meseret","family":"Zelalem","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Della","family":"Berhanu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"pone.0338193.ref001","article-title":"How many lives are at stake? 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