IDEAS aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice.

Journal article

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...

Journal article

Major gaps in child survival by ethnic group

At 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...

General Community-based newborn care Tracking progress Understanding quality improvement Context Evidence for policy and practice Research findings

Report

DIPH training handbook

It also elaborates on the operationalisation and cyclical implementation of the Data-Informed Platform for Health at the district level. The target audience for this handbook are district health officers, both in administrative and managerial roles within the health systems. Part A of the handbook covers the four core...

Ethiopia General Supporting local decision-making Local data use

Journal article

Understanding mistreatment during institutional delivery in Northeast Nigeria

There is growing evidence from Nigeria and around the world that women who deliver their babies in health facilities can experience mistreatment. In our study, we describe how frequently this happens in Gombe state,
north-eastern Nigeria, and what type of mistreatments women experience. Using a questionnaire, we...

Nigeria Understanding quality improvement Evidence for policy and practice Research findings

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Maternal and newborn health improves in rural Nigeria, Ethiopia and India but inequities still exist

“Our findings have a both optimistic and pessimistic interpretation, in that families from all socioeconomic status groups benefited, but inequities have also persisted,” writes Dr. Tanya Marchant with coauthors. Underlying inequities in these rural settings mean that more work is needed to reach the poorest...