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Guenther, Tanya
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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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Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of Childhood Infection Saves Lives in Hard-to-Reach Communities in Nicaragua
This document evaluates the impact of Nicaragua's integrated community case management program for hard-to-read rural communities.
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Monitoring iCCM: A feasibility study of the indicator guide for monitoring and evaluating integrated community case management
The Indicator Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) lists recommended indicators across programme components and phases to improve the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of programmes. In order to improve the Indica
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Equity Improvements in Maternal and Newborn Care Indicators: results from the Bardiya district of Nepal
This document measures equity improvements after the implementation of a Community Based Newborn Care Package in the Bardiya district of Nepal. The results of this study indicate that community-based interventions delivered by female community health volu
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A Systematic Review of Community-to-Facility Neonatal Referral Completion Rates in Africa and Asia
It is estimated that 2.8 million neonatal deaths occur worldwide, many of which are due to preventable causes. Since newborns are most vulnerable soon after their birth, the timeliness in which care is sought is critical. In low-resource community-based s
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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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Reaching Mothers and Babies with Early Postnatal Home Visits: The implementation realities of achieving high coverage in large-scale programs
This research report explores the impact of postnatal home visits in select regions of Nepal and Bangladesh that were undertake from 2000-2012 during Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) programme. Neonatal deaths account for an astounding perce
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Contribution of Community-based Newborn Health Promotion to Reducing Inequities in Healthy Newborn Care Practices and Knowledge: Evidence of improvement from a three-district pilot program in Malawi
Inequities in both health status and coverage of health services are considered important barriers to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4. Community-based health promotion is a strategy that is believed to reduce inequities in rural low-income setting
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Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Indicators for Global Tracking of Newborn Care
In 2008, in an effort to clarify the indicators needed to measure progress of improving newborn survival, the Newborn Indicators Technical Working Group (TWG) convened. The TWG promoted consistent measurement of postnatal care for women and newborns and f
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Beyond Distance: An approach to measure effective access to case management for sick children in Africa
Health planners commonly use geographic proximity to define access to health services. However, effective access to case management requires reliable access to a trained, supplied provider. We defined effective access as the proportion of the study popula