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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 blog, 71 newborns will have died globally, including 15 in India alone. Yet India has made major strides in reducing deaths of babies within the first 28 days of life. Recent...
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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 Extension Program (OHEP) intervention and the health extension workers’ ability to correctly classify common childhood illnesses in four regions of Ethiopia. The study used...
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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 collaboration for global health research. The authors illustrate this with examples of two collaborative projects in sub-Saharan Africa, where mutual capacity development was embedded...
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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 introduction of an integrated district-focused data quality intervention in northeastern Nigeria, which also included a WhatsApp group for participants to exchange learning and ask for...
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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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“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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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...
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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...