Past event
Quality of Community Based Newborn Care in EthiopiaCommunity-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...
Published content
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Improving the use of focus group discussions in low income settingsThis paper authored by Pauline Scheelbeek et al and published in BMC Medical Research Methodology describes how six exercises were used in 32...
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Listening to Gombe MothersFeedback from patients about their experience of health care is a critically important step to improving quality of care. But mechanisms for...
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Health system redesign for equity in maternal and newborn health must be codesigned, country led, adapted to context and fit for purposeJoanna Schellenberg and co-authors of this editorial, published in BMJ Global Health, comment on a study published in the same edition of the...
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Are we using the right approach to change newborn care practices in the community?Changing behaviors is usually a core component of the role of community health workers (CHWs), but little is known about the mechanisms through...
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First results from the Gombe State Maternal and Newborn Health PartnershipTogether with implementation partners the Society for Family Health, the SAQIP project of PACT Nigeria and Evidence for Action Mamaye, IDEAS has...
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“Everything is from God but it is always better to get to the hospital on time”Zelee Hill and her co-authors aimed to identify facilitators and barriers for women to deliver their babies in health facilities in Gombe State,...
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Are health facilities in low-income settings able to provide good quality routine MNCH care?This paper, authored by Keith Tomlin and others, looks at health facilities in three settings with high maternal mortality to assess their...