Hannah H. Leslie, Donna Spiegelman, Xin Zhou, Margaret E. Kruk
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the service readiness of health facilities in Bangladesh, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. METHODS: Using existing data from service provision assessments of the health systems of the 10 study countries, we calc...
Margaret E. Kruk, Stephanie Kujawski, Cheryl A. Moyer, Richard Adanu et al.
In this Series we document the substantial progress in the reduction of maternal mortality and discuss the current state of science in reducing maternal mortality. However, maternal health is also powerfully influenced by the structures and resources of societies, communities, and health systems. We...
Jeffrey Glenn, Corrina Moucheraud, Denise D. Payán, Allison Crook et al.
BACKGROUND: Community health worker (CHW) motivation is an important factor related to health service quality and CHW program sustainability in low- and middle-income countries. Financial and non-financial motivators may influence CHW behavior through two dimensions of motivation: desire to perform ...
Corrina Moucheraud, Haribondhu Sarma, Trần Thị Thu Hà, Tahmeed Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Poor early-life nutrition is a major barrier to good health and cognitive development, and is a global health priority. Alive & Thrive (A&T) was a multi-pronged initiative to improve infant and young child feeding behaviors. It aimed to achieve at-scale child health and nutrition improve...
Adrienne Epstein, Corrina Moucheraud, Haribondhu Sarma, Mahfuzur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Suboptimal healthcare quality may be a barrier to achieving child health improvements, yet little is known about the relationship between provider compliance with evidence-based practices and client behavior change. We assess provider compliance in the context of infant and young child f...
Margaret E. Kruk, Godfrey Mbaruku
In mid-2015, close to the finish line of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Tanzania has reason to be proud. As Hoviyeh Afnan-Holmes and colleagues note in their Countdown to 2015 case study,1Afnan-Holmes H Magoma M John T et al.Tanzania's Countdown to 2015: an analysis of two decades of progr...