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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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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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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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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