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Tracking Progress

Despite substantial investments in maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India, the coverage of high impact, evidence-based life saving interventions continues to be unacceptably low. 

 

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 in 2015 there were too few contacts between families and health workers, and those that did happen included many missed opportunities for health workers to deliver life-saving interventions.

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

IDEAS works in Gombe State in Nigeria to generate primary data through six-monthly health facility surveys and annual household surveys.

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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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Measuring content of contacts reveals missed opportunities to deliver quality maternal and newborn health care

Findings have been published in Plos One and the data supporting this analysis are now freely available online. Quality of health care is a big...

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Integrating maternal and newborn care at the 68th World Health Assembly

Countries are taking forward the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health by strengthening maternal and newborn health...

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Using the Research Impact Framework as a tool for reflection

We have google analytics, altmetric.com, Sprout Social, Mail Chimp, Bit.ly, My top tweet, and any number of other funkily-named applications...

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Reproductive Health Rights: Collateral damage in the face of Ebola?

The right to health does not mean the right to be healthy…but it does require… policies and action plans which will lead to available and...

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New hope for newborns

This number of newborn deaths is due to three main causes: preterm birth complications (1.0 million), childbirth-related conditions (0.7...

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Gates “myths” strike a chord for IDEAS

“By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world” Bill Gates, Annual Letter 2014, p 7   Bill Gates is a...

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Why harmonise indicators?

Why harmonise indicators? The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports the use of data collected by implementation projects to compare the...

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Using data to improve healthcare in Ethiopia

Though originally from Ethiopia, I have spent most of my adult life abroad. Acronyms and terms such as HEWs, CHPs, Health Post and Health Centre...

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A paradigm shift: from healthcare for the elite to healthcare for all

Since independence, India’s public health services have been guided by population norms: a sub centre for every 5000 population, a Primary...

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