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Overcoming adversities: The sustainability of the Village Health Worker scheme in Gombe StateThe VHW scheme has been running since November 2016, under the leadership of the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), with the support of Society for Family Health (SFH) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. All three groups are keen to ensure it is sustainable at scale. To help...
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IDEAS BrochureIDEAS Phase 2 is led by Dr Tanya Marchant and includes a team of more than 20 multi-disciplinary academic and professional support staff based in London, Addis Ababa, Lagos, Abuja and New Delhi. Building on lessons learned from IDEAS Phase 1, our research focuses on four key issues to better understand what...
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A successful project – or just good timing? Measuring interventions and their impact on health outcomesAttributing changes in health outcomes to specific interventions or projects is tricky. Oftentimes coincidental factors, such as the construction of a new highway linking communities to a health facility, could have improved the communities’ health indicators just as much, as a project employing newly trained health...
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IDEAS at #HSR2018A number of IDEAS researchers will be attending the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research taking place in Liverpool from 8-12 October. Don’t miss any of the IDEAS related sessions. We hope to see you there, follow us on Twitter @LSHTM_IDEAS to stay up to date.
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IDEAS BrochureIDEAS Phase 2 is led by Dr Tanya Marchant and includes a team of more than 20 multi-disciplinary academic and professional support staff based...
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Early postnatal home visits: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to achieving high coverageA paper co-authored by Yared Amare, Pauline Scheelbeek and IDEAS team members Zelee Hill, Joanna Schellenberg, and Della Berhanu and published in...
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A qualitative study of the scalability and sustainability of the Village Health Worker scheme in Gombe State, NigeriaKey findings show changes that were made to the VHW scheme to increase its sustainability in the 57 wards where it is being implemented to...
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Quality over quantity?Do we need to pay more attention to the quality of health care visits over how many visits are taking place in low resource settings? Is it an...
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Six steps to prevent a development project ending in the graveyardIn reality however, in more cases than not, once donor funding dries up, the project comes to an end, thereby limiting the project’s longer term...
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Data-driven learning cycles and their impact on data use for decision makingThe implementation partners are The Society for Family Health, SAQIP through a grant to PACT Nigeria and Evidence for Action through a...
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What motivates you? Understanding what makes health care workers motivated to provide quality care for mothers and newborns in EthiopiaWe are taking a mixed methods approach, conducting baseline and endline quantitative surveys supplemented by qualitative work halfway through the...
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10 Lessons From The BetterBirth StudyOver the last three years, the BetterBirth Program team at Ariadne Labs partnered with Population Services International, Community...
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International Day for Maternal Health and RightsBeyond human rights and ethics Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force, noted that disrespect and abuse (D&A)...