Task shifting in maternal and newborn health care: Key components from policy to implementation

Task shifting or shifting care practices? The impact of task shifting on patients’ experiences and health care arrangements in Swaziland

BACKGROUND In the quest to achieve early HIV treatment goals, national HIV treatment programmes dependent on international funding have been dramatically redesigned over the last 5 years. Bottlenecks in treatment provision are conceived of as health system problems to be addressed via structural and logistical fixes (routine HIV testing, point-of-care equipment, nurse-led antiretroviral treatme...

Implementation research to improve quality of maternal and newborn health care, Malawi

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a performance-based financing scheme on maternal and neonatal health service quality in Malawi. METHODS We conducted a non-randomized controlled before and after study to evaluate the effects of district- and facility-level performance incentives for health workers and management teams. We assessed changes in the facilities' essential drug stocks, equipment...

The National Evaluation Platform for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, and Nutrition: From idea to implementation

Delivering services and influencing policy: health care professionals join forces to improve maternal, newborn, and child health.

This article reviews the major activities of health care professional organizations (HCPAs), and emphasizes the role they can play in advocating for women and children and influencing maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs and policies. The ICM/FIGO joint effort to prevent postpartum hemorrhage and the 40-year partnership between the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Ind...

Mobile Health in Maternal and Newborn Care: Fuzzy Logic

Whether mHealth improves maternal and newborn health outcomes remains uncertain as the response is perhaps not true or false but lies somewhere in between when considering unintended harmful consequences. Fuzzy logic, a mathematical approach to computing, extends the traditional binary “true or false” (one or zero) to exemplify this notion of partial truths that lies between completely true and...