ReviewBMJ global health2019
Quality improvement in maternal and newborn healthcare: lessons from programmes supported by the German development organisation in Africa and Asia.
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- Quality improvement in public-private partnerships in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
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- Factors Influencing Timing of First Antenatal Care Visit Among Bangladeshi Women: Application of Accelerated Failure Time Models Using Demographic Health Survey 2022.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Mortality impact of implementing maternal perinatal deaths surveillance and response quality-of-care improvement strategy for maternal and newborn care, northeast Namibia: a quasi-experimental study.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Advancing gender equity in primary health care: Lessons from integrating gender-responsive strategies into service delivery in Ethiopia.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- A systematic, standards-based, participatory assessment of a continuous quality improvement project in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: results for neonatal care.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Service delivery interventions to improve maternal and newborn health in low- and middle-income countries: scoping review of quality improvement, implementation research and health system strengthening approaches.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Strategies to Reduce Maternal Death Rate and Improve the Provision of Quality Healthcare Services in Selected Hospitals of Vhembe District Limpopo Province.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2023Article
- Continuum of maternal and newborn health in Sierra Leone: a 2019 national survey.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022Article
- The role of modeling in evaluation of maternal and child health programs: using the lives saved tool to help answer core evaluation questions.Global health action · 2022Article
- The effect of national antenatal care guidelines and provider training on obstetric danger sign counselling: a propensity score matching analysis of the 2014 Ethiopia service provision assessment plus survey.Reproductive health · 2022Article
- Neonatal mortality in a public referral hospital in southern Haiti: a retrospective cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2022Observational
- Monitoring healthcare improvement for mothers and newborns: A quantitative review of WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA standards using Every Mother Every Newborn assessment tools.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Factors that affect the utilisation of maternal healthcare in the Mchinji District of Malawi.PloS one · 2022Article
- Devolved health system capacity in the provision of care for sick newborns and young infants in four counties serving vulnerable populations in Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Care Around Birth Approach: A Training, Mentoring, and Quality Improvement Model to Optimize Intrapartum and Immediate Postpartum Quality of Care in India.Global health, science and practice · 2021Article
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- Cost-effectiveness of community health systems strengthening: quality improvement interventions at community level to realise maternal and child health gains in Kenya.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- Effects of Midwifery Care on Mode of Delivery, Duration of Labor and Postpartum Hemorrhage of Elderly Parturients.Iranian journal of public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Improving the quality of maternal and child healthcare (MCH) is a mandatory step on the path to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage. Quality improvement (QI) in MCH is a strong focus of the bilateral development cooperation provided by Germany to help strengthen the health systems of countries with high maternal and child mortality rates and/or with high unmet needs for family planning. In this article, we report on the findings of an analysis commissioned by a community of practice on MCH, of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The objectives were to review the QI interventions implemented through programmes which have received technical assistance from GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in 14 Asian and African countries, to identify and describe the existing approaches and their results, and finally to draw lessons learnt from their implementation. Our analysis of the information contained in programme documents and reports identified five main methodologies used to improve the quality of care: capacity-building and supervision, governance and regulation, systemic QI at facility level, support to infrastructures, and community support. It is difficult to attribute the observed progresses in maternal and neonatal health to a particular agency, programme or intervention. We acknowledge that systemic implementation research embedded within the programmes would facilitate an understanding of the determinants of successful QI interventions, would better assess their effectiveness, and therefore better guide future bilateral aid programmatic decisions.
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