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Series 3, episode 2 – Funding, equity, and quality: how the government in Delta State, Nigeria, is partnering with private providers to address a primary health care gap
In Nigeria’s Delta State, a public/private partnership is rehabilitating 25 defunct health facilities to provide quality primary health care services to remote and underserved communities. The Primary Health Care Revitalization and Access to Finance Sc...
Series 3, episode 1 – COVID-19 lockdown and pregnancy complications: Findings from Nepal on providing quality intrapartum care in extraordinary times
A recent study conducted in Nepal assessed the indirect impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the quality of intrapartum care that women received in health facilities. The study, published in The Lancet, looks at the implications of a reduced access to ca...
Series 2, episode 5 – In Sierra Leone, an emergency triage system is driving child mortality down: what we can learn from ‘ETAT+’ whole systems approach
Many children’s deaths could be prevented if the most sick children were identified soon after their arrival in a health facility, and were prioritized to be treated immediately. - The Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) programme was in...
Series 2, episode 4 – When birth companions are part of the problem: a story of disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Western Tanzania
A recent study conducted in Ghana, Guinea, Myanmar and Nigeria and published in the Lancet showed that one in three women experienced physical or verbal mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities. -
Series 2, episode 3 – In India, a group of medical and nursing students bring quality improvement skills in their life and work
Chhavi Sharma, a medical student at the Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi, explains how learning Quality Improvement skills, in addition to her clinical skills, is changing the way she approaches patients,
Series 2, episode 2 – In Ghana, a simple tool designed to engage communities helped increase the transparency, accountability and quality of care in health services
- Emmanuel Ayire Adongo, from the World Health Organisation Country Office in Ghana explains how a simple tool – a scorecard, building on an existing policy and community engagement structures – has made it possible to engage communities in the ...
Series 2, episode 1- In Ebonyi and Kogi states, health workers learn quality improvement skills on top of clinical skills, and are improving quality of care on the day of birth
- Over 90 health facilities in the Eboni and Kogi states of Nigeria have joined a quality improvement initiative to improve the quality of care for women and newborn on the day of birth. - In just two years,
Series 1, episode 4 – Building systems to support health workers to deliver better care
There has been several pieces of work published recently on how health systems are failing and how they have to evolve and focus on quality of care, to adapt to changing needs and support Universal Health Coverage (UHC). - Last month,
Series 1, episode 3 – Building trust between families and health care workers to care for sick and small newborns in India
What can anxious parents of small and sick newborns do to care for their baby, in a health facility? And how does their willingness to help go down with health workers? Professor Arti Maria, Head of Neonatology at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital,
Series 1, episode 2 – Water and sanitation for a better experience of care in Malawi
- Health facilities need to have access to water, sanitation, energy, as well as supplies of medicines and equipment to deliver quality care to women and newborns. These pre-requisites are a part of the World Health Organization’s standards for ...
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