Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
- Networks of Care: An Approach to Improving Maternal and Newborn Health
The Networks of Care approach has the potential to harmonize existing strategies and optimize health systems functions for maternal and newborn health, thereby strengthening the quality of care and ultimately improving outcomes.
- Determinants of Maternal Diet Quality in Winter in the Kyrgyz Republic
Contrary to cultural dietary preferences, mothers in the Kyrgyz Republic maintained minimum diet diversity during winter through access to markets and by growing, preserving, and storing foods.
- Changes in Child Undernutrition and Overweight in India From 2006 to 2021: An Ecological Analysis of 36 States
India has historically displayed high levels of child stunting and low levels of child overweight. Despite improvements in human development indicators between 2006 and 2021, population-level reductions in child stunting have slowed and child overweight is rising faster than predicted by human development indicators.
- Designing for Impact and Institutionalization: Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Postpartum Family Planning Approaches for First-Time Mothers in Bangladesh
Public health practitioners often design interventions prioritizing potential impact over sustainability. To assess the potential for impact and institutionalization, we applied systems thinking to postpartum family planning approaches for first-time mothers in Bangladesh.
- Improving the Quality of Health Care in Special Neonatal Care Units of India: A Before and After Intervention Study
In low- and middle-income countries, facility-based neonatal care practices can be improved using a collaborative cross-learning quality improvement approach incorporating remote mentoring, coaching, and supportive supervision.
- Do Children With Congenital Zika Syndrome Have Cerebral Palsy?
As researchers and practitioners, we have an important role in educating families of children with brain damage caused by Zika virus infection on how a cerebral palsy diagnosis can empower them with more information and enable better access to care and intervention services.
- Early Reflections on Mphatlalatsane, a Maternal and Neonatal Quality Improvement Initiative Implemented During COVID-19 in South Africa
A quality improvement initiative for maternal and neonatal health care demonstrates that a responsive intervention design and implementation approach mitigates threats to clinical services during COVID-19.
- Maternal Service Coverage and Its Relationship To Health Information System Performance: A Linked Facility and Population-Based Survey in Ethiopia
Coverage for most maternal services showed promising performance. Improving the health information system performance can further improve maternal service uptake and quality.
- Maternal and Child Health Care Service Disruptions and Recovery in Mozambique After Cyclone Idai: An Uncontrolled Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Timely and relevant information is vital to help identify and track areas of improvement after extreme weather events and during emergencies to prioritize limited resources. Routine data can provide useful evidence of health system performance during and after natural disasters, contributing to an effective and efficient response.
- Re-envisioning Kangaroo Mother Care Implementation Through a Socioecological Model: Lessons From Malawi
Successful kangaroo mother care (KMC) efforts must understand and address social norms that influence this practice. The current study offers a model for how to connect social norms analysis to specific actions to improve KMC implementation.