Access to Water and Sanitation in Obstetric Facilities in 14 Western and Central African Countries: Review of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Needs Assessments
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
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Driving Improvements in WASH in Healthcare Facilities in Cambodia: Facility-Level Assessments to National Level Change
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: Safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in healthcare facilities (HCFs) play critical roles in infection prevention, especially surrounding childbirth. Despite…
Opportunities for Improvement: Lessons From the WASH & CLEAN Study in India and Bangladesh
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: There is growing recognition of the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention and control (IPC) in healthcare institutions for…
Access, Service Readiness, and Use of Facility-Based Delivery Care: A Spatial Analysis of Health Facility Data and Population Data in Haiti
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: In Haiti only 36% of births take place in health facilities, putting women at high risk of maternal mortality. One reason for the low use of facility-based…
Accelerating Scale-Up of Kangaroo Mother Care—What’s Next for the KMC Acceleration Partnership?
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: In October 2013, a group of global KMC stakeholders met in Istanbul and launched the KMC Acceleration, an effort to accelerate the uptake of effective KMC…
Integration of Kangaroo Mother Care in Health Systems: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Enablers
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) has been shown to prevent newborn mortality and morbidities. Despite its benefits, country-level adoption and implementation have been…
Disseminating Kangaroo Mother Care Across Disciplinary, Cultural and Country Frontiers: Lessons From Different Settings
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: KMC is an evidence-based technology useful for ameliorating LBW effects on infant mortality and morbidity. It brings physiologically sound, human and emotionally…
Lessons Learned Across Asia and Africa in Evaluating KMC Scale-up Using the Six Stages of Implementation
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: A stages-of-change model is available for evaluating facility-based kangaroo mother care (KMC) services. Implementation progress at facility- and country level…
A Sustainable Community Health Volunteer (CHV) Quality Assurance Innovation in Madagascar: The MIKOLO Model of On-Site Mentorship/Support by Tas and Its Impact on CHV Performance
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Madagascar’s community health policy promotes community-based maternal, neonatal, reproductive and child health service delivery by CHVs in areas at >5km from a health…
Supporting Community Health Worker Systems to Improve the Care of Mothers and Newborns in 3 Countries in East Africa
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Background: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an essential cadre needed to reach mothers and newborns in low resource settings. One of the challenges for building capacity…