Diana Bowser, Susan Sparkes, Andrew Mitchell, Thomas J. Bossert et al.
BACKGROUND: Since the early 2000s, there have been large increases in donor financing of human resources for health (HRH), yet few studies have examined their effects on health systems. OBJECTIVE: To determine the scope and impact of investments in HRH by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis ...
Haribondhu Sarma, Catherine D’Este, Tahmeed Ahmed, Thomas J. Bossert et al.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to identify and develop a comprehensive conceptual framework using implementation science that can be applied to assess a nutrition intervention in a real-world setting. DESIGN: We conducted a narrative review using electronic databases and a manual search to iden...
Haribondhu Sarma, Ishrat Jabeen, Sharmin Khan Luies, Md. Fakhar Uddin et al.
INTRODUCTION: BRAC, an international development organisation based in Bangladesh, uses female volunteer community health workers called Shasthya Shebika (SS), who receive small incentives to implement its home-fortification interventions at the community level. This paper examines the individual, c...
Haribondhu Sarma, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya, Md. Tariqujjaman, Mahfuzur Rahman et al.
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the role of home visits by Shasthya Shebika (SS) - female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) - in improving the distribution of micronutrient powder (MNP), and explored the independent effects of caregiver-provider interaction on coverage variables. DESIGN: We used data...
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...
Haribondhu Sarma, Md. Tariqujjaman, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya, Sufia Askari et al.
OBJECTIVE: BRAC, an international development organization based in Bangladesh, engages community health workers called Shasthya Shebikas (SS) to implement home fortification of foods with micronutrient powders (MNP). We identified factors associated with home visits by SS, at different levels of th...
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...
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
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Corrina Moucheraud, Adrienne Epstein, Haribondhu Sarma, Sunny S. Kim et al.
Introduction Alive and Thrive (A&T) implemented infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions in Bangladesh. We examine the sustained impacts on health workers' IYCF knowledge, service delivery, job satisfaction, and job readiness three years after the program's conclusion. Methods We ...