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.
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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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Improved health systems could prevent over 8 million deaths each year in low- and middle-income countriesBeyond this terrible human cost, poor quality health systems represented enormous economic losses to countries due to lost productivity each year....
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IDEAS Summer Seminar SeriesMore than seven years later, the team is building on the wealth of data, results, partnerships and learning created in the current second phase of...
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The effect of implementation strength of basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) on facility deliveries and the met need for BEmONC at the primary health care level in EthiopiaTailored support, including BEmONC training to providers, mentoring and monitoring through supportive supervision, provision of equipment...
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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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“To know what is happening to women and newborns you need to collect accurate information” Preparing for a health facility survey in NigeriaOne way to measure whether the partner projects that IDEAS works with are making a difference is by continuously checking in with the people and...
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Strengthening the measurement of key health indicators in EthiopiaLike many other countries, Ethiopia has gaps in their Health Management Information System (HMIS), as well as insufficient mechanisms for data...
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Technical consultations on postnatal carePostnatal care can be provided at home or at a health facility. International data however shows that compared to other maternal and newborn...
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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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Where do we stand? Monitoring and measuring progress in maternal, newborn and child healthA new article, published in The Lancet journal, looks at the current status of monitoring and measurement in RMNCAH&N. The article points out...