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Tracking Progress

Frequent high-quality contacts between families and frontline workers are critical in ensuring that every woman and every child receive the interventions they need. Yet there are still too few contacts between families and health workers, and the quality of care being delivered is often sub-optimal.

Regular tracking of the progress of high quality health care provides an opportunity for reflection and course-correction in maternal and newborn health programmes.

IDEAS has worked with international partners to define a matrix of priority indicators for tracking, and worked in Gombe State in Nigeria to generate the data needed to make data-informed decisions there.

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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...

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Can we use DHIS2 data to monitor maternal and newborn health? A case study from Gombe state, Nigeria

A paper authored by IDEAS team member Antoinette Bhattacharya and published as part of a series on High Quality Health Systems in PLOS ONE aims to determine the quality of routine health facility-based data in DHIS2 for maternal and newborn health services in Gombe state, Nigeria. Antoinette Bhattacharya takes notes...

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Effective coverage in MNCH: progress, future prospects and implications for quality health systems

This paper published in The Lancet Global Health and authored by members of the Effective Coverage Think Tank Group, lays out recommendations for standardising the definition, measurement approaches and indicators for effective coverage in maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition. It is the result...

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Published content

Research brief
Gombe MNH Partnership – Results leaflet in English

Nigeria Improving coverage measurement Tracking progress Understanding quality improvement Evidence for policy and practice Intervention coverage Research findings
Research brief
Gombe MNH Partnership – Results Leaflet in Hausa

Nigeria Improving coverage measurement Tracking progress Understanding quality improvement Evidence for policy and practice Intervention coverage Research findings
Blog Post
First results from the Gombe State Maternal and Newborn Health Partnership

Together with implementation partners the Society for Family Health, the SAQIP project of PACT Nigeria and Evidence for Action Mamaye, IDEAS has...

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Are health facilities in low-income settings able to provide good quality routine MNCH care?

This paper, authored by Keith Tomlin and others, looks at health facilities in three settings with high maternal mortality to assess their...

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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...

Nigeria Improving coverage measurement Tracking progress Understanding quality improvement Behaviour change Context Evidence for policy and practice Research findings
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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,...

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More efforts needed to reach poor and rural women with maternal health services in Ethiopia

Alem Desta Wuneh, a PhD student with the Dagu project, published this paper in the International Journal for Equity in Health. This study used...

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Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilisation in four Ethiopian regions

Atkure Defar, Dagu project lead at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and a PhD student supported through the  project and his co-authors,...

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News
Learning from joint research: Maternal, newborn and child health in Ethiopia

These are just some of the results discussed during a joint MNCH learning conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the 7th of November....

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