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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Changes in maternal and newborn health care in Gombe State, NigeriaInteractions between families and frontline workers – their frequency, quality, and equity – and coverage of interventions for mothers and newborns in Gombe State, Nigeria.
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Changes in maternal and newborn health care in Uttar Pradesh, IndiaInteractions between families and frontline workers – their frequency, quality, and equity – and coverage of interventions for mothers and newborns in Uttar Pradesh, India
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How can we get life-saving interventions to women and babies? #HSR2016Do innovations enhance interactions between families and front-line workers and increase life-saving intervention coverage? This is one of the...
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How can data improve implementation?Learning from routine data Using routine monitoring and evaluation data to understand why innovations are not being used can help local maternal...
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One house, two doors: Making sure survey numbers represent the peopleWhat a compelling fact! We need facts like this. They help us to understand the health needs of a community and how we should be addressing them....
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Measuring content of contacts reveals missed opportunities to deliver quality maternal and newborn health careFindings 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 AssemblyCountries 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 reflectionWe 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...