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Improved antenatal care but postnatal care remains alarmingly lowThe Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC) programme encompassed nine components aiming to provide life-saving services to mothers and newborns. These included early identification of pregnant women, provision of ANC, promotion of facility delivery and management of sick newborns. The IDEAS team used a before and after...
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How health care workers choose their jobs: a discrete choice experiment in EthiopiaThis study unlike many others, which interview doctors or medical students, aimed to understand job preferences of lower-skilled cadres such as community health workers, mid-skilled clinical care staff such as nurses and midwives, or non-patient facing staff who manage health facilities. The study, authored by...
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‘A seamless transition’: how to sustain a community health worker schemeThis paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, presents a qualitative study focussing on the Village Health Worker (VHW) Scheme’s sustainability. The paper authored by IDEAS researchers aims to contribute to the body of literature on sustaining donor-funded interventions as well as presenting lessons aimed at...
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How do we measure women’s experience of childbirth care?When women go to a health facility to deliver, they expect to be looked after – to receive all the clinical care necessary to ensure their safety and the safety of the newborn. Women also expect to be looked after respectfully and be treated with dignity. Both these dimensions make up the overall quality of care...
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How health care workers choose their jobs: a discrete choice experiment in EthiopiaThis study unlike many others, which interview doctors or medical students, aimed to understand job preferences of lower-skilled cadres such as...
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Can quality improvement programmes affect health care workers’ motivation?
A knowledgeable and motivated workforce is critical for health systems to provide high-quality services. Many low- and middle-income countries
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Improved antenatal care but postnatal care remains alarmingly lowThe Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC) programme encompassed nine components aiming to provide life-saving services to mothers and newborns....
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‘A seamless transition’: how to sustain a community health worker schemeThis paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, presents a qualitative study focussing on the Village Health Worker (VHW) Scheme’s...
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Health extension worker’s abilities to classify childhood illnesses don’t improve with OHEP interventionThe Dagu PhD student Theodros Getachew published this paper in PLOS ONE aiming to evaluate the association between the Optimising the Health...
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Embed capacity development within all global health researchThis commentary, published in BMJ Global Health, aims to draw attention to the opportunity for capacity development within international...
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How do we measure women’s experience of childbirth care?When women go to a health facility to deliver, they expect to be looked after – to receive all the clinical care necessary to ensure their...
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Three lessons to improve quality of care for newborns in IndiaBy the time you finish reading this blog, 71 newborns will have died globally, including 15 in India alone. By the time you finish reading this...
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Listening to Gombe MothersFeedback from patients about their experience of health care is a critically important step to improving quality of care. But mechanisms for...