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Has Ethiopia been successful in increasing health care utilisation for children?Despite a range of programmes and initiatives introduced in Ethiopia since 2003 care-seeking for sick under-five children has remained low. The...
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Final evaluation of the Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC) programme in EthiopiaThe overall evaluation plan included baseline, quality of care and follow up surveys, as well as two qualitative studies. It was conducted in collaboration with JaRco Consulting, based in Ethiopia. At the community level, there were remarkable changes between 2013 and 2017 for facility delivery and antiseptic use for...
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Geneva Health ForumIn order to adapt to the constraints imposed by the current global health crisis and to guarantee the safety of all the participants, the Steering...
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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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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...
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Has Ethiopia been successful in increasing health care utilisation for children?Despite a range of programmes and initiatives introduced in Ethiopia since 2003 care-seeking for sick under-five children has remained low. The...
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Understanding what didn’t work: a mixed method process evaluationThe ‘Optimising the Health Extension Program’ was implemented between 2016 and 2018 in four regions of Ethiopia. It included community...
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Professional advice for primary healthcare workers in Ethiopia: a social network analysisThis study, authored by Kate Sabot et al and published in BMC Health Services Research, compares professional advice networks of healthcare...
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Evaluating efforts to increase primary child health services in EthiopiaThis protocol, authored by Della Berhanu and others, published in BMC Health Services, describes an evaluation of a complex intervention that aims...
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Major gaps in child survival by ethnic groupAt the global level, major inequalities are clear and persistent, write Schellenberg and Berhanu, inequalities by wealth, geographical location,...
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More efforts needed to reach poor and rural women with maternal health services in EthiopiaAlem Desta Wuneh, a PhD student with the Dagu project, published this paper in the International Journal for Equity in Health. This study used...