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Effective coverage in MNCH: progress, future prospects and implications for quality health systemsThis paper published in The Lancet Global Health and authored by members of the Effective Coverage Think Tank Group, lays out recommendations for standardising the definition, measurement approaches and indicators for effective coverage in maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition. It is the result...
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In memory of Deepthi WickremasingheDeepthi was a Research Fellow, specialising in qualitative research, systematic literature reviews and information and knowledge management. Deepthi’s many contributions to IDEAS included her qualitative research on how to scale-up and sustain maternal and newborn child interventions. Most recently, she led a study...
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What influences women’s choice of place of delivery?The study published in BMJ Global Health and authored by Nasir Umar and others is based on a discrete choice experiment following a comprehensive literature review to identify attributes of care. 426 women who had a facility birth experience were asked to choose between two hypothetical health facilities or home birth...
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Major gaps in child survival by ethnic groupAt the global level, major inequalities are clear and persistent, write Schellenberg and Berhanu, inequalities by wealth, geographical location, sex of the child, and by the mother’s education are well described and tracked. In the era of the Sustainable Development Goals, with its aim to leave no-one behind, the...
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Are health facilities in low-income settings able to provide good quality routine MNCH care?This paper, authored by Keith Tomlin and others, looks at health facilities in three settings with high maternal mortality to assess their...
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Effective coverage in MNCH: progress, future prospects and implications for quality health systemsThis paper published in The Lancet Global Health and authored by members of the Effective Coverage Think Tank Group, lays out recommendations for...
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Evaluating efforts to increase primary child health services in EthiopiaThis protocol, authored by Della Berhanu and others, published in BMC Health Services, describes an evaluation of a complex intervention that aims...
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What influences women’s choice of place of delivery?The study published in BMJ Global Health and authored by Nasir Umar and others is based on a discrete choice experiment following a comprehensive...
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Major gaps in child survival by ethnic groupAt the global level, major inequalities are clear and persistent, write Schellenberg and Berhanu, inequalities by wealth, geographical location,...
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“I felt like I should have delivered at home”The Northeast of Nigeria has some of the highest rates of maternal and newborn deaths in the world. Drastically reducing this number of...
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A new appreciation for data: Impressions from the MNCH partnership in Gombe StateFor the IDEAS team working in Gombe, the past few months have again been a busy period. The last annual household survey was scheduled for August,...
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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,...