Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
HCI assists countries to apply quality improvement methods to strengthen the continuum of maternal, newborn, and child health services at community, primary, and reference levels. Photo by Youssef Tawfik, URC.
Tools for Assessment and Improvement
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Child Health
- • Assessing the functionality of job aids in supporting the performance of IMCI providers in Zambia
- • Job aids on HIV and infant feeding
- • Assessing health worker performance of IMCI in Kenya
- • Developing job aids to increase adherence to an antibiotic regimen in children with pneumonia in Niger
- • Malawi field study: Comparison of methods for assessing quality of health worker performance related to management of ill children
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Maternal and Newborn Health
- • Postpartum Family Planning Toolkit
- • Kenya: Assessment of Health Workforce Competency and Facility Readiness to Provide Quality Maternal Health Services
- • Are skilled birth attendants really skilled? A measurement method, some disturbing results and a potential way forward
- • Safe motherhood studies -- timeliness of in-hospital care for treating obstetric emergencies
- • Quality of obstetric care observed in 14 hospitals in Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica, and Rwanda
- • Safe motherhood studies -- results from Benin. Competency of skilled birth attendants. The enabling environment for skilled attendance at delivery. In-hospital delays in obstetric care (documenting the third delay)
- • Safe motherhood studies -- results from Jamaica. Competency of skilled birth attendants. The enabling environment for skilled attendance at delivery. In-hospital delays in obstetric care (documenting the third delay)
- • Safe motherhood studies -- results from Rwanda. Competency of skilled birth attendants; the enabling environment for skilled attendance at delivery. In-hospital delays in obstetric care (documenting the third delay)
- • Improving care for women suffering from pregnancy induced hypertension
- • Developing evidence-based standards for pregnancy-induced hypertension in Russia
- • Baseline assessments of essential obstetric care: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Honduras
Improvement Experiences
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Child Health
- • Using the collaborative approach to improve pediatric hospital care
- • Improving Pediatric Care in Nicaragua
- • The impact of QA methods on compliance with the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithm in Niger
- • Compliance, workload, and the cost of using the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithm in Niger
- • Using problem-solving teams to improve compliance with IMCI guidelines in Kenya
- • Improving adherence to cotrimoxazole for the treatment of childhood pneumonia in Niger
- • Assessing the functionality of job aids in supporting the performance of IMCI providers in Zambia
- • A comparison of computer-based and standard training in the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Uganda
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Maternal and Newborn Health
- • Preventing postpartum hemorrhage: Why quality improvement matters
- • Niger: Quality Improvement for Maternal-Newborn Health Services
- • Using quality assessment to improve maternal care in Nicaragua
- • Designing obstetric services to reduce maternal mortality in Guatemala
- • Designing quality essential obstetric care services in Honduras
- • Increasing compliance with maternal and child care quality standards in Ecuador
- • Scaling up and institutionalizing continuous quality improvement in the free maternity and child care program in Ecuador
- • The Nicaragua Mother and Baby Friendly Health Units Initiative: factors influencing its success and sustainability
- • Improving the management of obstetric emergencies in Uganda through case management maps
- • Improving the system of care for neonates suffering from respiratory distress syndrome in Tver Oblast
- • Improving the system of care for women suffering from pregnancy-induced hypertension in Tver Oblast
- • Improving the quality of care for women with pregnancy-induced hypertension reduces costs in Tver, Russia
- • Quantifying the economic impact of using evidence-based clinical guidelines for pregnancy-induced hypertension in two hospitals
- • Improving compliance with standards for essential obstetric care in Bolivia
- • Safe Motherhood Studies—Results from Benin
- • Redesigning hospital documentation systems to improve the quality of obstetric patient records in Ecuador
Other Resources