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- Does Quality Certification Work? An Assessment of Manyata, a Childbirth Quality Program in India’s Private Sector
Manyata, a quality improvement initiative for labor room staff at private facilities in India, yielded increased knowledge among staff, increased adherence to evidence-based practices, and a suggestive decrease in referrals but no change in facility-reported health outcomes.
- What Underlies State Government Performance in Scaling Family Planning Programming? A Study of The Challenge Initiative State Partnerships in Nigeria
This study generated insights for government partners as they expand and institutionalize interventions introduced by intermediary scaling partners such as TCI and shows the value of strengthening the factors that best support local government scaling efforts.
- A Platform for Sustainable Scale: The Challenge Initiative’s Innovative Approach to Scaling Proven Interventions
The Challenge Initiative’s innovative approach to scale prioritizes local government ownership and meaningful leadership of key local stakeholders to implement high-impact interventions with built-in sustainability by strengthening local capacity and health systems.
- Lessons Learned From Integrating Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling and Iron-Folic Acid Distribution Into Routine Immunization Services in Ethiopia
This study’s findings demonstrate that integrating counseling on infant and young child feeding and iron-folic acid supplement distribution into immunization services is achievable and can promote greater accessibility to other health services in immunization and beyond.
- 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.
- Financial Implications of Tariffs for Medical Oxygen on Rwandan Public Hospitals’ Finance Management During the Coronavirus Epidemic
This study shows how variations in patient consumption of medical oxygen can be used to determine tariffs more accurately and highlights the need for a transition from the time-based tariff structure to a case-based or volume-based tariff to incentivize sustainable production of medical oxygen services at hospitals in Rwanda.
- Crossing the Last Mile of TB Care in Rural Southern Madagascar: A Multistakeholder Initiative
Decentralizing TB care services by offering motorbike-based mobile clinics increased patient accessibility to TB care services in a remote district in Madagascar.
- 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.
- Multisectoral, Combination HIV Prevention for Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Qualitative Study of the DREAMS Implementation Trajectory in Zambia
Our study of DREAMS implementation in Zambia identified key implementation successes and challenges experienced by implementing partners and program participants, from program rollout and throughout its evolution.