Health Workers
- Scale-Up of a Newborn Resuscitation Capacity-Building and Skill Retention Program Associated With Improved Neonatal Outcomes in Gandaki Province, Nepal
A program in Nepal based on the Helping Babies Breathe training curriculum successfully scaled up newborn resuscitation training and skill retention and could serve as an evidence-based model in other resource-constrained settings.
- Applying the COM-B Model to Understand the Drivers of Mistreatment During Childbirth: A Qualitative Enquiry Among Maternity Care Staff
The promotion of respectful maternity care requires addressing the drivers of mistreatment and strengthening the capacity of maternity care staff to provide respectful and rights-based maternity care.
- The Quality Management Improvement Approach: Successes and Lessons Learned From a Workforce Development Intervention in Rwanda’s Health Supply Chain
A workforce development intervention called the Quality Management Improvement Approach has proven to be a successful training and capacity-building platform for supply chain management, improving end-to-end data visibility and communication.
- Community Health Workers as Vaccinators: A Rapid Review of the Global Landscape, 2000–2021
This review identifies countries where community health workers administered vaccines and synthesizes health systems factors that may contribute to or detract from the feasibility of community health workers administering vaccines to alleviate health workforce shortages.
- A Field Test of the NORMAL Job Aid With Community Health Workers in Kenya to Address Contraceptive-Induced Menstrual Changes
A job aid for counseling clients on contraceptive-induced menstrual changes shows potential to improve counseling effectiveness, clients’ uptake, and continued use of hormonal contraceptive methods and the copper intrauterine device.
- When Knowledge Is Not Enough: Applying a Behavioral Design Approach to Improve Fever Case Management in Nigeria
Analyzing fever case management through a behavioral lens can lead programs to solutions that differ from conventional approaches in terms of type and deployment method.
- 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.
- Cocreation in Health Workforce Planning to Shape the Future of the Health Care System in the Philippines
Cocreation in health workforce planning in the Philippines led to relationship building between policy makers and researchers who jointly identified solutions to address challenges in the health care system.
- How Do Private Providers Unaffiliated With the Nigeria National TB Program Diagnose and Treat Drug-Susceptible TB Patients? A Cross-Sectional Study
Private providers unaffiliated with the National TB Program (NTP) in Nigeria are not diagnosing or treating drug-susceptible TB patients according to NTP guidelines, resulting in an urgent need to engage non-NTP providers and improve the quality of their TB services.
- Community Health Worker Program Outcomes for Diabetes and Hypertension Control in West Bank Refugee Camps: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study
A community health worker program in urban Palestinian West Bank refugee camps improves diabetes and hypertension control in a setting of chronic violence and extreme adversity.