<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kalamar, Amanda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oyedokun-Adebagbo, Foyeke</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reichenbach, Laura</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Advancing Our Understanding of Provider Behavior Change for Improved Health Outcomes</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Health: Science and Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023-11-30 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><elocation-id><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">e2300314</style></elocation-id><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00314</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Supplement 1</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Health care providers play a critical role in the health system and are an essential component for the successful delivery and sustained uptake of health services. Understanding provider behaviors and designing interventions to strengthen their performance and contribution to the health system is a complex undertaking. Providers reflect a range of cadres with varying levels of education, training, incentives, and compensation. They engage with a diversity of patients and clients across a broad range of health services—from one-time lifesaving interventions to supporting the uptake of interventions that require sustained behavior change for addressing chronic health conditions—all of which require different provider competencies and behaviors. Providers often function in settings with unpredictable or scarce resources, including medical supplies, knowledge, and time.Just as there is no single type of provider, there is no standard understanding of provider behavior or the best way to support provider behavior through programming. As a result, understanding the drivers of provider behavior requires examination from multiple perspectives and approaches to inform programming to best support the provider's performance. A health systems approach1 focuses on identifying and improving gaps within the structural environment where a provider works (i.e., availability of supplies and equipment, geographic density of health providers, clinical training and supervision, and compensation).2 Although structural approaches and investments that have focused mainly on clinic resources and clinical training are critical for supporting providers, they often do not take into account other drivers and influences on provider behavior, such as underlying attitudes, values, biases, and motivations. Social and behavior change (SBC) approaches can identify underlying social norms, attitudes, and other influences on provider behavior that impact their ability to deliver care and ultimately influence health outcomes.3 However, there has been relatively limited research and programmatic work that adopts an SBC approach that includes a …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>