Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Programme governance

S Lewin, U Lehmann, HB Perry - Health research policy and systems, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Community health workers (CHWs) can play a critical role in primary
healthcare and are seen widely as important to achieving the health-related Sustainable …

Impact of Ebola and COVID-19 on maternal, neonatal, and child health care among populations affected by conflicts: a scoping review exploring demand and supply …

Y Shafiq, E Rubini, ZZ Fazal, MM Bukhari, M Zakaria… - Conflict and Health, 2024 - Springer
Introduction Armed conflicts have a severe impact on the health of women and children.
Global health emergencies such as pandemics and disease outbreaks further exacerbate …

District governance and improved maternal, neonatal and child health in South Africa: pathways of change

H Schneider, A George, F Mukinda… - Health Systems & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
District-level initiatives to improve maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) generally do
not take governance as their primary lens on health system strengthening. This paper is a …

What is the impact of national public expenditure and its allocation on neonatal and child mortality? A machine learning analysis

LP Garcia, IJC Schneider, C De Oliveira, E Traebert… - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Understanding the impact of national public expenditure and its allocation on
child mortality may help governments move towards target 3.2 proposed in the 2030 …

Measuring child survival for the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: what have we learned and what more is needed to evaluate the Sustainable Development …

MA Brault, K Mwinga, AM Kipp, SB Kennedy… - Global health …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Reducing child mortality is a key global health challenge. We examined reasons for greater
or lesser success in meeting under-five mortality rate reductions, ie Millennium Development …

Evidence review of what works for health systems strengthening, where and when?

S Witter, N Palmer, D Balabanova, S Mounier-Jack… - 2019 - archive.lstmed.ac.uk
Comprehensive reviews of health system strengthening (HSS) interventions are rare, partly
because of lack of clarity on definitions of the term but also the potentially huge scale of the …

Lessons learned from strategies for promotion of evidence-to-policy process in health interventions in the ECOWAS region: a rapid review

CJ Uneke, I Sombie, E Johnson, BI Uneke - Nigerian Medical Journal, 2020 - ajol.info
Abstract Context: The West African Health Organization (WAHO) is vigorously supporting
evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM) in the countries of West Africa. EIPM is increasingly …

How Zambia reduced inequalities in under-five mortality rates over the last two decades: a mixed-methods study

C Jacobs, M Musukuma, B Sikapande… - BMC Health Services …, 2023 - Springer
Background Zambia experienced a major decline in under-five mortality rates (U5MR), with
one of the fastest declines in socio-economic disparities in sub-Saharan Africa in the last two …

Leveraging the community development approach to examine the natural capital effect on sustainable development goal 3-target 2

A Gani - Community Development, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates if natural capital abundance matters for the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, Target 2, to reduce under-five mortality rates in 56 …

Overcoming the constraints of competitive clientelism? Explaining the success of Ghana's poorest region in reducing maternal mortality

AG Abdulai - The International Journal of Health Planning and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Maternal mortality remains a health challenge that many developing countries struggle to
address. Drawing on 64 key informant interviews, this article shows how Ghana's most …