Understanding quality improvement

Quality Improvement (QI) is the term used for a group of methods that adopts a problem-solving approach to improve health worker performance through review of service delivery processes, planning for improvement and acting upon those plans.

QI is a part of several Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s investments in low-income settings, including in Nigeria, Ethiopia and India. But little is yet known about how QI works through, for example, leadership, quality of teamwork, supportive supervision or organisational culture.

IDEAS uses novel qualitative and quantitative approaches in Ethiopia to understand how QI approaches can influence health worker behaviours to improve care and how they affect both the delivery of services and the utilisation of services by patients.

Past event
Quality of Community Based Newborn Care in Ethiopia

Community-Based Newborn Care (CBNC) is an Ethiopian national initiative launched in March 2013 as a means of bringing life-saving care to mothers and newborns at the community level within the Ethiopian health system. CBNC aims to improve newborn survival through the strengthening of Primary Health Care Units and the...

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Published content

Blog Post
International Day for Maternal Health and Rights

Beyond human rights and ethics Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force, noted that disrespect and abuse (D&A)...

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Hiring a Research Fellow based in Lagos, Nigeria

The post-holder will have a PhD in public health or a closely related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience in research; demonstrated...

Nigeria Understanding quality improvement Evaluation methods Research findings
Blog Post
Slow and steady – validating health data in Gombe State line by line

As 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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Blog Post
Improving Quality of Care is the Most Powerful Means to End Preventable Maternal Deaths

Cross-posted from the Maternal Health Task Force blog
Written by: Pompy Sridhar, India Director, MSD for Mothers   Our entire maternal health...

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Past event
Seminar: The use of social network analysis to study health care provider advice and performance

This review of databases and articles by IDEAS team members, spanning over 26 years and sought to analyse whether and how social network methods...

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Welcome to the new IDEAS website

The IDEAS project aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in...

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Blog Post
Taking stock – Seven years of IDEAS

A team of about 20 researchers and professional support staff, employed by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, set off to find out...

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Better health through better data

These meetings are known as “Data Driven Learning Workshops”. Led by the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (GSPHCDA) the...

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Report
Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health 2010–17 Report

  Back in 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle developed a new strategy for the coming years, outlining how they might achieve...

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