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Monitoring childbirth care in primary health facilities: a validity study in Gombe State, northeastern NigeriaAntoinette Bhattacharya et al assessed twenty-five childbirth care indicators to validate health worker documentation and women’s self-reports. Women who were interviewed at the time of leaving the health facility were able to recall the care they received with a high degree of validity (AUC≥0.70 and...
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Mapping complex interventions – lessons from developing and applying a characterisation framework in Nigeria, Ethiopia and IndiaThis paper authored by Krystyna Makowiecka et al and published in BMJ Global Health al describes how government leadership to enhance maternal and newborn health often involves coordinating multiple and diverse efforts by several projects, starting and finishing at different time points, working at different scales and...
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A new partnership with the University of LagosThe prototype phase of NHQI was implemented in Lagos between April 2015 and September 2017. To institutionalise gains from the prototype phase, the scale-up phase started in November 2017 and is expected to end in October 2020. This blog highlights the need for NHQI in Lagos and illustrates the steps taken to evaluate...
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Stronger diagnostic abilities for common childhood illnesses needed in EthiopiaThis paper published by Theodros Getachew et al in Acta Paediatrica reveals findings from a study which included a survey and observations of the work of Health Extension Workers (HEW) to better understand their capacity to correctly diagnose common childhood illnesses. Theodros is a PhD student supported by the IDEAS...
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Monitoring childbirth care in primary health facilities: a validity study in Gombe State, northeastern NigeriaAntoinette Bhattacharya et al assessed twenty-five childbirth care indicators to validate health worker documentation and women’s...
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Final evaluation of the Community Based Newborn Care programme in EthiopiaThe overall evaluation plan included baseline, quality of care and follow up surveys, as well as two qualitative studies. It was conducted in...
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Mapping complex interventions – lessons from developing and applying a characterisation framework in Nigeria, Ethiopia and IndiaThis paper authored by Krystyna Makowiecka et al and published in BMJ Global Health al describes how government leadership to enhance maternal and...
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Stronger diagnostic abilities for common childhood illnesses needed in EthiopiaThis paper published by Theodros Getachew et al in Acta Paediatrica reveals findings from a study which included a survey and observations of the...
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‘People have started to deliver in the facility these days’: a qualitative exploration of factors affecting facility delivery in EthiopiaThe findings in this paper, authored by Zelee Hill and others suggest that barriers, which had prevented women in the past from delivering their...
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Redesigning maternal health services – context mattersThe plea for the childbirth service redesign is underpinned by the assumption that the centralisation of childbirth services to hospitals will...
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A new partnership with the University of LagosThe prototype phase of NHQI was implemented in Lagos between April 2015 and September 2017. To institutionalise gains from the prototype phase,...
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Monitoring the quality of care for Nigerian mothers and newborns using DHIS2This blog was written by Antoinette Bhattacharya from the IDEAS team and first published on the HNN blog. Working with the government of...
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How have data-driven learning workshops contributed to the work of the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency and its partners in enhancing the health of women and newborns in the State?The partnership involved in these workshops comprises the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (the Agency), four national NGOs –...