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Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Community Health Investments in Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health

This cost and cost-effectiveness brief aims to broadly summarize existing information on the costs and cost-effectiveness of community-delivered reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health interventions, including large-scale community health worker programs, to provide health decision-makers and planners with a baseline understanding of the types of costs associated with providing these services. To support efforts to […]

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MMEL Fact Sheet

Features key facts and Program work in measurement, monitoring and evaluation and action-oriented learning. […]

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Core Concepts for Clinical Preceptors & Faculty

This document contains selected content from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing preceptor training mobile application reproduced as notecards. It includes modules on: Foundations of Precepting; Evaluation; Educator Challenges; Culture of Caring; Communication; and Clinical Reasoning. […]

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Threatened Preterm Birth Care Learning Resource Package

Threatened Preterm Birth Care is part of the Helping Mothers Survive and Helping Babies Survive suite of training modules.  It is a two-day course designed for teams of health workers who provide care for women and newborns.  The content is based on the 2015 WHO recommendations on interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes and focuses […]

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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene at the Health Center

This two-page brief outlines the challenges facing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in maternal and perinatal health, and proposes actions to address them via improved WASH in health facilities, greater leadership for ministries of health, increased coordination with other sectors, and better accountability. Also available in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. […]

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Social Accountability Resources and Tools

Civil society organizations (CSOs) are increasingly joining forces with public health personnel at the local and national levels to provide greater scrutiny of programs and budgets. Described as “social accountability,” common themes include: preparation and planning; involvement of marginalized and impoverished populations; identification of barriers for effective participation; interface meetings between civil society and governmental/public […]

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Maternal and Child Survival Program