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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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LSHTM – EPHI Maternal Newborn and Child Health Learning ConferenceThe objective of the conference is to synthesize the learning emerging from the joint research efforts in Maternal, Newborn and Child...
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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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Redesigning maternal health services – context mattersThe plea for the childbirth service redesign is underpinned by the assumption that the centralisation of childbirth services to hospitals will...
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Strengthening the quality of routine MNCH data through learning workshopsQuality routine health data provide useful program monitoring information to identify gaps and take action to improve performance. Under the...
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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...
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Celebrating 8 years of IDEASJust a few weeks before this exciting milestone the IDEAS team from London, Ethiopia and Nigeria came together for a team retreat to hear from...
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Newborn resuscitation in Gombe State, northeastern NigeriaThis paper published by Josephine Exley, Nasir Umar, Sarah Moxon, Adamu Umar Usman and Tanya Marchant from the IDEAS project, the London School of...
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IDEAS at #HSR2018New evidence presented as posters (above) included: Sustainability for a Village Health Worker scheme in Nigeria Availability of routine facility...
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A successful project – or just good timing? Measuring interventions and their impact on health outcomesAttributing changes in health outcomes to specific interventions or projects is tricky. Oftentimes coincidental factors, such as the construction...