MOMENTUM Modular Health Facility Assessment

The Modular Health Facility Assessment (HFA) and user guide provide the MOMENTUM suite of awards with a tool focusing on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health/family planning care and services, including seven modules that collect information on the following: service availability; service readiness; quality and safety of patient care; experience of care; availability of register; community services and mobilization; health facility oversight; quality improvement; and use of data.

Last modified: February 5, 2024

Language: English, French

Source: https://usaidmomentum.org/resource/modular-hfa/

Year of Publication: 2023

Improving Metrics and Methods for Assessing Experience of Care Among Children and Caregivers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

There is a growing recognition of the importance of conceptualizing and measuring young children’s and their families’ experience of care in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries. This landscape review considers the importance of pediatric experience of care (PEoC) and related frameworks, metrics, and tools. Following the development of this framework, MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator carried out a qualitative study soliciting expert feedback on the proposed framework. The accompanying technical brief summarizes the study’s findings.

Last modified: February 5, 2024

Language: English

Source: USAID MOMENTUM

Year of Publication: 2023

WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience

This guideline aims to improve the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and newborn health and well-being. It recognizes a “positive postnatal experience” as a significant end point for all women giving birth and their newborns, laying the platform for improved short- and long-term health and well-being. A positive postnatal experience is defined as one in which women, newborns, partners, parents, caregivers and families receive information, reassurance and support in a consistent manner from motivated health workers; where a resourced and flexible health system recognizes the needs of women and babies, and respects their cultural context.

This is a consolidated guideline of new and existing recommendations on routine postnatal care for women and newborns receiving facility- or community-based postnatal care in any resource setting.

Last modified: February 5, 2024

Language: English

Source: World Health Organization

Year of Publication: 2022

What is Patient Experience?

Understanding patient experience is a key step in moving toward patient-centered care. This resource provides a definition of patient experience, shows its difference to patient satisfaction and how it is measured.

Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, physician practices, and other healthcare facilities. As an integral component of healthcare quality, patient experience includes several aspects of healthcare delivery that patients value highly when they seek and receive care, such as getting timely appointments, easy access to information, and good communication with healthcare providers.

Last modified: February 5, 2024

Language: English

Source: AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

Year of Publication: 2016

Operationalizing Health & Education Coordination

This report commissioned by the Child Health Task Force presents recommendations for operationalizing school health and education that surfaced through interviews with USAID Africa Bureau Missions. It addresses the question: How do countries, practitioners, and development partners bridge the gap between knowing ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do it’ when it comes to school health?

The report was authored by Linda Schultz and Luke Shors and jointly financed by the USAID Bureau for Africa Office of Sustainable Development and JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (Secretariat of the Child Health Task Force).

Last modified: January 30, 2024

Language: English

Source: Child Health Task Force

Year of Publication: 2021

Implementation Strategies To Accelerate Community Covid-19 Vaccination Rates: Experiences and Lessons learned from USAID’s support in Côte d’Ivoire

This success story highlights the lessons learned and recommendations for COVID-19 vaccine implementation in Côte d’Ivoire.

The Côte d’Ivoire Ministry of Health reported the country’s first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on 11 March 2020. By March 2021, when the vaccine became widely available, over 32,000 cases had been detected (Our World in Data). Also in March 2021, the Ivorian government, in collaboration with its partners, launched a nationwide vaccination campaign to reach 70% vaccination coverage by September 2023 in alignment with WHO’s global targets.

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Stratégies de mise en œuvre pour accélérer les taux de vaccination communautaire contre le COVID-19 : Expériences et leçons tirées du soutien de l’USAID en Côte d’Ivoire

Cette histoire de réussite met en lumière les leçons apprises et les recommandations relatives à la mise en œuvre du vaccin COVID-19 en Côte d’Ivoire.

Le ministère ivoirien de la santé a signalé le premier cas de maladie à coronavirus (COVID-19) dans le pays le 11 mars 2020. En mars 2021, lorsque le vaccin est devenu largement disponible, plus de 32 000 cas avaient été détectés (Notre monde en données). Toujours en mars 2021, le gouvernement ivoirien, en collaboration avec ses partenaires, a lancé une campagne de vaccination à l’échelle nationale pour atteindre une couverture vaccinale de 70% d’ici septembre 2023, en alignement avec les objectifs mondiaux de l’OMS.

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Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: January 17, 2024

Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE)

Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) is an evidence-based group psychological intervention to help 10–15-year-olds affected by internalizing problems (e.g. stress and symptoms of anxiety, depression) in communities exposed to adversity. Published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), EASE aims to support adolescents and their caregivers with skills to reduce distress. The intervention consists of 7 group sessions for adolescents and 3 additional group sessions for their caregivers. It is based on adapted aspects from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and has been designed to be suitable for delivery by trained and supervised non-specialist helpers. The EASE intervention manual is accompanied by four additional documents to support its delivery.

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Adolescent & Caregiver Posters

Caregiver Handouts

My WorkbookStorybook

Last modified: January 17, 2024

Language: English

Source: World Health Organization

Year of Publication: 2023

USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

The Nutrition Resource Hub is a curated collection of over 600 publications, tools, and technical resources from USAID and its projects.

Last modified: January 2, 2024

Language: English

Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2023

Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank (Resource Collection)

The Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Image Bank is a collection of over 900 images, developed from adaptations of UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package. These, and other similar images about recommended IYCF practices, have been used in more than 70 countries for counseling and training to promote behavior change for improved maternal and child nutrition.

Last modified: January 2, 2024

Language: English

Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2023