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September 2015 | Volume 3 | Number 3

  1. Abegunde, Dele

    1. Open Access
      Task Shifting Provision of Contraceptive Implants to Community Health Extension Workers: Results of Operations Research in Northern Nigeria
      Zulfiya Charyeva, Olugbenga Oguntunde, Nosa Orobaton, Emmanuel Otolorin, Fatima Inuwa, Olubisi Alalade, Dele Abegunde and Saba’atu Danladi
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):382-394; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00129

      With training and supportive supervision, male and female Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) in Nigeria safely and effectively provided contraceptive implants, and virtually all clients said they were satisfied. Most CHEWs achieved competency after 5 client insertions. However, the CHEWs provided only an average of 4 insertions per health facility per month. Realizing the true potential of providing implants calls for a context with dedicated providers and robust outreach.

  2. Alalade, Olubisi

    1. Open Access
      Task Shifting Provision of Contraceptive Implants to Community Health Extension Workers: Results of Operations Research in Northern Nigeria
      Zulfiya Charyeva, Olugbenga Oguntunde, Nosa Orobaton, Emmanuel Otolorin, Fatima Inuwa, Olubisi Alalade, Dele Abegunde and Saba’atu Danladi
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):382-394; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00129

      With training and supportive supervision, male and female Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) in Nigeria safely and effectively provided contraceptive implants, and virtually all clients said they were satisfied. Most CHEWs achieved competency after 5 client insertions. However, the CHEWs provided only an average of 4 insertions per health facility per month. Realizing the true potential of providing implants calls for a context with dedicated providers and robust outreach.

  3. Alam, Nur H

    1. Open Access
      Empirically Derived Dehydration Scoring and Decision Tree Models for Children With Diarrhea: Assessment and Internal Validation in a Prospective Cohort Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh
      Adam C Levine, Justin Glavis-Bloom, Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin, Soham Rege, Chieh Chu, Christopher H Schmid and Nur H Alam
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):405-418; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00097

      The DHAKA Dehydration Score and the DHAKA Dehydration Tree are the first empirically derived and internally validated diagnostic models for assessing dehydration in children with acute diarrhea for use by general practice nurses in a resource-limited setting. Frontline providers can use these new tools to better classify and manage dehydration in children.

  4. Aronovich, Dana

    1. Open Access
      Estimating Contraceptive Prevalence Using Logistics Data for Short-Acting Methods: Analysis Across 30 Countries
      Marc Cunningham, Ariella Bock, Niquelle Brown, Suzy Sacher, Benjamin Hatch, Andrew Inglis and Dana Aronovich
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):462-481; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00116

      Three models showed strong correlation between public-sector logistics data for injectables, oral contraceptives, and condoms and their prevalence rates, demonstrating that current logistics data can provide useful prevalence estimates when timely survey data are unavailable.

  5. Bock, Ariella

    1. Open Access
      Estimating Contraceptive Prevalence Using Logistics Data for Short-Acting Methods: Analysis Across 30 Countries
      Marc Cunningham, Ariella Bock, Niquelle Brown, Suzy Sacher, Benjamin Hatch, Andrew Inglis and Dana Aronovich
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):462-481; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00116

      Three models showed strong correlation between public-sector logistics data for injectables, oral contraceptives, and condoms and their prevalence rates, demonstrating that current logistics data can provide useful prevalence estimates when timely survey data are unavailable.

  6. Borger, Sarah

    1. Open Access
      Care Groups I: An Innovative Community-Based Strategy for Improving Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Resource-Constrained Settings
      Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Thomas Davis and Pieter Ernst
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):358-369; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00051

      Care Groups use volunteers to motivate mothers to adopt key MCH behaviors. The volunteers meet as a group every 2–4 weeks with a paid facilitator to learn new health promotion messages. Key ingredients of the approach include: peer-to-peer health promotion, selection of volunteers by the mothers, a manageable workload for the volunteers (no more than 15 households per volunteer), frequent (at least monthly) contact between volunteers and mothers, and regular supervision of the volunteers.

    2. Open Access
      Care Groups II: A Summary of the Child Survival Outcomes Achieved Using Volunteer Community Health Workers in Resource-Constrained Settings
      Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Thomas Davis, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Jim Ricca and Pieter Ernst
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):370-381; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00052

      Care Group projects resulted in high levels of healthy behavior, including use of oral rehydration therapy, bed nets, and health care services. Accordingly, under-5 mortality in Care Group areas declined by an estimated 32% compared with 11% in areas with child survival projects not using Care Groups.

  7. Boyer, Christopher B

    1. Open Access
      The Astronomy of Africa’s Health Systems Literature During the MDG Era: Where Are the Systems Clusters?
      James F Phillips, Mallory Sheff and Christopher B Boyer
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):482-502; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00034

      The volume of literature on health systems in sub-Saharan Africa has been expanding since the 2000 MDG era. Focus has remained generally on categorical health themes rather than systems concepts. Topics such as scaling-up, organizational development, data use for decision making, logistics, and financial planning remain underrepresented. And quite surprisingly, implementation science remains something of a “black hole.” But bibliometric evidence suggests there is a shift in focus that may soon address these gaps.

  8. Braitstein, Paula

    1. Open Access
      Institutional Care of Children in Low- and Middle-Income Settings: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom of Oliver Twist
      Paula Braitstein
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):330-332; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00228

      Whether institutions or extended families are better suited to care for orphans depends on the specific circumstances. Reported rates of traumatic experiences among orphans and vulnerable children are high in both institutions and extended families; improving the quality of care for such children should be the paramount priority in all settings.

  9. Brown, Niquelle

    1. Open Access
      Estimating Contraceptive Prevalence Using Logistics Data for Short-Acting Methods: Analysis Across 30 Countries
      Marc Cunningham, Ariella Bock, Niquelle Brown, Suzy Sacher, Benjamin Hatch, Andrew Inglis and Dana Aronovich
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):462-481; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00116

      Three models showed strong correlation between public-sector logistics data for injectables, oral contraceptives, and condoms and their prevalence rates, demonstrating that current logistics data can provide useful prevalence estimates when timely survey data are unavailable.

  10. Cates, Willard

    1. Open Access
      WHO Tiered-Effectiveness Counseling Is Rights-Based Family Planning
      John Stanback, Markus Steiner, Laneta Dorflinger, Julie Solo and Willard Cates
      Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):352-357; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00096

      Contraceptive effectiveness is the leading characteristic for most women when choosing a method, but they often are not well informed about effectiveness of methods. Because of the serious consequences of “misinformed choice,” counseling should proactively discuss the most effective methods—long-acting reversible contraceptives and permanent methods—using the WHO tiered-effectiveness model.

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