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Gender discrimination as a barrier to high-quality maternal and newborn health care in Nigeria: findings from a cross-sectional quality of care assessment

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Poor reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health outcomes in Nigeria can be attributed to several factors, not limited to low health service coverage, a lack of quality care, and gender inequity.
Chioma Oduenyi, Joya Banerjee, Oniyire Adetiloye, Barbara Rawlins, Ugo Okoli, Bright Orji, Emmanuel Ugwa, Gbenga Ishola, Myra Betron   +8 more
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Measuring the Impact of Conservation: The Growing Importance of Monitoring Fauna, Flora and Funga

Diversity, 2022
Many stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and sustainably manage nature.
P. J. Stephenson, Maria Cecilia Londoño-Murcia, Paulo A. V. Borges, Louw Claassens, Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma, Nicholas Ling, Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, Jessica J. Meeuwig, Kerrigan Marie Machado Unter, Judith L. Walls, Ian J. Burfield, Danilo do Carmo Vieira Correa, Gary N. Geller, Irina Montenegro Paredes, Leonard K. Mubalama, Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, Ignacio Roesler, Francesco Rovero, Yash Pal Sharma, Nara Wisesa Wiwardhana, Jun Yang, Luca Fumagalli   +21 more
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Procuring Survival*

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 2022
We investigate the impact of public procurement on business survival. Using Italy as a laboratory, we construct a large‐scale dataset of firms—covering balance‐sheet, income‐statement, and administrative records—and match it with public contract data.
Cappelletti, Matilde, Giuffrida, Leonardo M., Rovigatti, Gabriele   +2 more
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A practice improvement package at scale to improve management of birth asphyxia in Rwanda: a before-after mixed methods evaluation

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is a competency-based educational method for an evidence-based protocol to manage birth asphyxia in low resource settings.
Jacqueline Umunyana, Felix Sayinzoga, Jim Ricca, Rachel Favero, Marcel Manariyo, Assumpta Kayinamura, Edwin Tayebwa, Neena Khadka, Yordanos Molla, Young-Mi Kim   +9 more
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Simulation-based low-dose, high-frequency plus mobile mentoring versus traditional group-based trainings among health workers on day of birth care in Nigeria; a cluster randomized controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background The aim of this study was to compare health workers knowledge and skills competencies between those trained using the onsite simulation-based, low-dose, high frequency training plus mobile mentoring (LDHF/m-mentoring) and the ones trained ...
Emmanuel Ugwa, Mark Kabue, Emmanuel Otolorin, Gayane Yenokyan, Adetiloye Oniyire, Bright Orji, Ugo Okoli, Joseph Enne, Gabriel Alobo, Gladys Olisaekee, Adebayo Oluwatobi, Chioma Oduenyi, Adekunle Aledare, Boniface Onwe, Gbenga Ishola   +14 more
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Assessing coral sperm motility

Scientific Reports, 2021
The declining reproductive viability of corals threatens their ability to adapt to changing ocean conditions. It is vital that we monitor this viability quantitatively and comparatively.
Nikolas Zuchowicz, Jonathan Daly, Jessica Bouwmeester, Claire Lager, E. Michael Henley, C. Isabel Nuñez Lendo, Mary Hagedorn   +6 more
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Procuring Survival

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Public spending (i.e., 'G') enables governments to fulfill their fiscal policies. This paper takes a micro perspective and quantifies the impact of procurement spending - a specific component of G - on firm survival. We find that firms that receive public contracts survive longer, ceteris paribus, and that this effect accrues over time, reaching 20 ...
Cappelletti, Matilde, Giuffrida, Leonardo M.   +1 more
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“I can guess the month … but beyond that, I can’t tell” an exploratory qualitative study of health care provider perspectives on gestational age estimation in Rajasthan, India

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background Accurately estimating gestational age is essential to the provision of time-sensitive maternal and neonatal interventions, including lifesaving measures for imminent preterm birth and trimester-specific health messaging.
K. Scott, S. Gupta, E. Williams, M. Arthur, U. V. Somayajulu, L. Noguchi   +5 more
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Do male engagement and couples’ communication influence maternal health care-seeking? Findings from a household survey in Mozambique

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background This study explored effects of couples’ communication and male participation in birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) on delivery in a health facility (“institutional delivery”).
Gilda G. Sitefane, Joya Banerjee, Diwakar Mohan, Connie S. Lee, Jim Ricca, Myra L. Betron, Rosa Marlene Manjate Cuco   +6 more
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Counting stillbirth in a community - To understand the burden

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2022
Introduction: There is huge inequality in stillbirth rates across the globe, between high and low income countries, rural and urban population. There is a large discrepancy in the reporting of stillbirth burden and estimated.
Bharti Sharma, Ankit Raina, Vijay Kumar, Premananda Mohanty, Minakshi Sharma, Amit Gupta   +5 more
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