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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, NigeriaA 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 systemsThis 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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilisation in four Ethiopian regionsAtkure 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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Learning from joint research: Maternal, newborn and child health in EthiopiaThese are just some of the results discussed during a joint MNCH learning conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the 7th of November....