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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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The DIPH Ethiopia in its second cycleThe teams are collecting and analysing data from 12 district health offices which are DIPH-implementing districts and from 12 non-implementation control districts. The DIPH is embedded within the district level health system of Ethiopia and is integrated into the already existing monthly Performance Review Team Meeting...
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Critically examining quality-adjusted coverage measuresImproving coverage measurement continues to be a key area of ongoing research with the IDEAS team. Currently the team is working in collaboration with the Child Health Accountability Tracking (CHAT) Technical Advisory Group, co-convened by WHO and UNICEF and supported by USAID, on a systematic review examining how...
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Sharing the knowledge – improving quality of care in EthiopiaIn Ethiopia, Network activities are focused in 48 learning health facilities, selected from seven regions, with the intention that positive learning is diffused to other service providers in the country. Our QCN research aims to examine the performance and achievements of the structural Network as a knowledge sharing...
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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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Routine health management information system data in Ethiopia: consistency, trends and challengesThe paper, authored by analysts from the ORCA project, made use of a WHO data quality review toolkit and compared data from the Health Management...
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Improving the use of focus group discussions in low income settingsThis paper authored by Pauline Scheelbeek et al and published in BMC Medical Research Methodology describes how six exercises were used in 32...
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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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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...