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- Modeling Pathways to Describe How Maternal Health Care Providers' Mental Health Influences the Provision of Respectful Maternity Care in Malawi
Measuring provider burnout and understanding how it impacts delivery of maternity care can help address ways to improve respectful care. Improving facility management is essential to mitigate provider depression, emotional exhaustion & burnout.
- Harnessing the Power of Behavioral Science: An Implementation Pilot to Improve the Quality of Maternity Care in Rural Madagascar
Applying a behavioral design methodology resulted in cocreating 4 innovative solutions to improve provider's compliance with postpartum hemorrhage management protocols in rural Madagascar to help improve the quality of maternity care.
- Lessons From a Behavior Change Intervention to Improve Provider-Parent Partnerships and Care for Hospitalized Newborns and Young Children in Kenya
Strengthening provider-parent partnerships through improved communication enhances the respectful, responsive quality of newborn and young child care, which is critical to positive health outcomes.
- Results From a Multimethod Exploratory Scale Development Process to Measure Authoritarian Provider Attitudes in Democratic Republic of Congo and Togo
Provider attitudes are a recognized driver of provider behaviors that may influence client behaviors & outcomes–the authors present a scale development & validation process resulting in survey items measuring authoritarian provider attitudes.
- Six Recommendations for Provider Behavior Change in Family Planning
Future provider behavior change interventions in FP/RH should engage a wider range of provider cadres and apply varied behavior change strategies, using a systems approach to address the holistic set of factors that influence provider behavior.
- Applying a Power and Gender Lens to Understanding Health Care Provider Experience and Behavior: A Multicountry Qualitative Study
Applying a power lens to understand provider behavior illuminates how interpersonal, social, and structural relations influence health care providers' power to provide high-quality care.
- Measuring Effects of Counseling to Increase Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Adherence and Partner Support in South Africa Using the Healthy Relationship Assessment Tool
Authors examined the effectiveness of the Healthy Relationship Assessment Tool to guide counselors in supporting women to address relationship-related challenges to pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence and measured women's score changes after counseling over time.
- Software Tools to Facilitate Community-Based Surveillance: A Scoping Review
Authors of this review identified software tools that could be used for community-based public health surveillance and facilitate faster communication of potential outbreaks, reporting, and coordination of response efforts.
- How Real-Time Case-Based Malaria Surveillance Helps Zanzibar Get a Step Closer to Malaria Elimination: Description of Operational Platform and Resources
The authors describe how the Zanzibar Malaria Program successfully implemented a real-time case-based malaria surveillance platform that is helping Zanzibar get closer to malaria elimination.
- UDHAVI Community Support During India's Second COVID-19 Wave: A Descriptive Study on a Tertiary Care Center's Pandemic Response Helpline
The authors describe how a tertiary care institution in India initiated a helpline during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that leveraged institutional medical expertise and community health networks to better coordinate pandemic response efforts.