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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 connecting with health care users to hear their stories can be problematic, an issue highlighted by the movement to promote and address respectful maternity care. The high...
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“There Is No Link Between Resource Allocation and Use of Local Data”The study authors show that districts have a decision-making structure, including representatives of all relevant government departments, and resources available to support local plans. However, a well-defined decision-making process is lacking, and there are limited interactions between departments for formal data...
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Half-way there: positive steps in maternal and newborn care in Northeast NigeriaThis IDEAS-led study, authored by Josephine Exley et al and published in BMJ Open, offers unique insights into the quality of care provided to women and newborns in primary health care facilities in Gombe state, Nigeria. Observations of 1875 women admitted to 10 primary health care facilities in Gombe state, provide a...
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Are we using the right approach to change newborn care practices in the community?Changing behaviors is usually a core component of the role of community health workers (CHWs), but little is known about the mechanisms through which they change behavior. For this study, authored by Zelee Hill et al, researchers collected qualitative data from eight sites in Ethiopia and northern Nigeria where CHWs...
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Using social media to improve routine data quality metricsHow is this all linked to social media? The study, published in BMJ Open, measured changes in data quality metrics before and after the...
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“There Is No Link Between Resource Allocation and Use of Local Data”The study authors show that districts have a decision-making structure, including representatives of all relevant government departments, and...
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Half-way there: positive steps in maternal and newborn care in Northeast NigeriaThis IDEAS-led study, authored by Josephine Exley et al and published in BMJ Open, offers unique insights into the quality of care provided to...
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Health system redesign for equity in maternal and newborn health must be codesigned, country led, adapted to context and fit for purposeJoanna Schellenberg and co-authors of this editorial, published in BMJ Global Health, comment on a study published in the same edition of the...
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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...
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First results from the Gombe State Maternal and Newborn Health PartnershipTogether with implementation partners the Society for Family Health, the SAQIP project of PACT Nigeria and Evidence for Action Mamaye, IDEAS has...
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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...