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What motivates you? Understanding what makes health care workers motivated to provide quality care for mothers and newborns in EthiopiaWe are taking a mixed methods approach, conducting baseline and endline quantitative surveys supplemented by qualitative work halfway through the programme around drivers and levels of motivation. In April 2018, I travelled to Ethiopia to begin quantitative data collection among health care workers. Unexpected...
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What motivates you? Understanding what makes health care workers motivated to provide quality care for mothers and newborns in EthiopiaWe are taking a mixed methods approach, conducting baseline and endline quantitative surveys supplemented by qualitative work halfway through the...
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10 Lessons From The BetterBirth StudyOver the last three years, the BetterBirth Program team at Ariadne Labs partnered with Population Services International, Community...
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International Day for Maternal Health and RightsBeyond human rights and ethics Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force, noted that disrespect and abuse (D&A)...
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Are women getting quality care? And how can we know? Measuring the coverage of high quality careWe have traditionally depended on household survey estimates of the coverage of contacts with health facilities to understand access, for example...
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Slow and steady – validating health data in Gombe State line by lineAs an output from our first data quality learning workshop in March 2017, LGA M&E officers and MNCH coordinators were excited about revitalizing...
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Better quality routine health data through a WhatsApp group? What comes out of the Data Quality Workshops in Gombe StateTo strengthen the quality of routine maternal and newborn health data in Gombe State in 2017 the IDEAS project initiated a total of four data...
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Improving Quality of Care is the Most Powerful Means to End Preventable Maternal Deaths
Cross-posted from the Maternal Health Task Force blog
Written by: Pompy Sridhar, India Director, MSD for Mothers
Our entire maternal health...
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Overcoming adversities: The sustainability of the Village Health Worker scheme in Gombe StateThe VHW scheme has been running since November 2016, under the leadership of the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), with...
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Taking stock – Seven years of IDEASA team of about 20 researchers and professional support staff, employed by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, set off to find out...