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Amouzou, Agbessi
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Discordance in Postnatal Care between Mothers and Newborns: Measurement artifact or missed opportunity?
Postnatal care (PNC) for mothers and newborns is essential to monitor risks of morbidity and adverse conditions following delivery. Current estimates of the coverage of PNC show substantial discordance between mothers and newborns. The study investigates
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Advances in the Measurement of Coverage for RMNCH and Nutrition: From contact to effective coverage
Current methods for measuring intervention coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (RMNCH+N) do not adequately capture the quality of services delivered. Without information on the quality of care, it is difficult to a
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Contribution of Community Health Workers to Improving Access to Timely and Appropriate Case Management of Childhood Fever in Mozambique
Large-scale evaluations in several settings have demonstrated that lay community health workers can be trained to provide quality case management of childhood illnesses. This article assessed the contributed of an iCCM strategy in Mozambique to improved c
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Real-Time Assessments of the Strength of Program Implementation for Community Case Management of Childhood Illness: Validation of a mobile phone-based method in Malawi
This study seeks to assess the validity of using mobile technology to monitor the provision of community case management by health surveillance assistants (HSAs) in Malawi. To do so, it compares the sensitivity and specificty of the information obtained t
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Count Every Newborn: A measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data
The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), launched in 2014, is a global multi-partner movement to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths. The 2030 national target for neonatal mortality and stillbirth rate is of ≤12 per 1000 births. Key