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Health workers in northern Uganda on how they improved care
Over the last 16 months, Uganda’s Ministry of Health with support from the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project has been working with 15 health facilities in the two Northern districts of Gulu and Nwoya to improve the experience of care for mothers delivering in these facilities, as well as referrals. Two health workers from two of the facilities share what steps they took to improve experience of care, and how it affected their work.
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BMC Disaster in pregnancy: midwifery continuity positively impacts infant neurodevelopment, QF2011 study
“Continuity of midwifery care has positive effects on infant neurodevelopment when mothers experience disaster-related stress in pregnancy, with significantly better outcomes on two developmental domains at 6 months compared to infants whose mothers received standard hospital care.”
LANCET Tracking aid for global health goals: a systematic comparison of four approaches applied to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health
“We recommend that efforts to track aid for the Sustainable Development Goals reflect their multisectoral and interconnected nature and make analytical choices that are appropriate to their objectives, recognising the trade-offs between simplicity, timeliness, precision, accuracy, efficiency, flexibility, replicability, and the incentives that different metrics create for donors.”
LANCET Smartphone-based screening for visual impairment in Kenyan school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial
The Peek school eye health system increased adherence to hospital referral for visual impairment assessment compared with the standard approach among school children. This indicates the potential of this technology package to improve uptake of services and provide real-time visibility of health service delivery to help target resources.
WHO Prior caesarean section and likelihood of vaginal birth, 2012–2016, China
Promotion of vaginal birth after caesarean section could increase the rate even further in China. To ensure the safety of mothers and their newborns, national policies and guidelines on vaginal birth after caesarean section are needed.
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Reports, Tools & Guidelines
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Enabling women to breastfeed through better policies and programmes: Global breastfeeding scorecard 2018
The Global Breastfeeding Scorecard periodically reviews national progress on implementing seven actions needed to enable women to breastfeed, including funding of breastfeeding programmes, regulation of marketing of breast-milk substitutes, maternity protection in the workplace, compliance with the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, access to breastfeeding counselling and training, availability of community support programmes, and consistent monitoring.
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Webinar: Improving the quality of essential newborn care in Myanmar: from one hospital to many
Friday, August 3rd 2018 at 12 noon (India Time), register in advance.
Professor Thein Thein Hnin, Neonatologist, Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Taunggyi, Myanmar, will be sharing her team's quality improvement journey to improve essential newborn care, from their first project in one facility to supporting three other hospitals.
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Postdoctoral Transdisciplinary Research Fellowship
This fellowship is an extraordinary opportunity to work with world-class researchers and mentors, develop ideas and partnerships within a collaborative network, present works in progress and final results in domestic and global symposia, and formally build additional research skills. The Fellowship, co-sponsored by the East Africa and California arms of the Preterm Birth Initiative, is open to open to US and non-US citizens. Admissions for the 2019 cohort are due September 15, with interviews scheduled for November and December and notification of final decisions no later than January 2019. Read more about the application process here. |
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Editor’s Note: For any comments or if you have any advice to us or information you would like to share on our email network of over 1300 stakeholders, send us an email on cmnhr.epost@gmail.com We are open to collaborations and hosting post doc as well as masters students with interest in research on maternal and newborn health.
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