Governance in Global Health: Achieving Impact and Sustainability for Integrated Community Case Management
Child Health Task Force, June 2021
Events
Coordination and development of integrated community case management (iCCM) requires country leadership and ownership to ensure integration into a national health system's policy and infrastructure. Information generation and sharing, continued external funding, and continued integration of disease-specific stovepipes to facilitate funding and programming are critical. This is a webinar.
Grab a Seat! Nudging Providers to Sit Improves the Patient Experience in the Emergency Department
Orloski, Clinton J., Erica R. Tabakin, Frances S. Shofer, Jennifer S. Myers, Angela M. Mills. Journal of Patient Experience. June, 2019. Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 110-116.
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Research Articles
Are patients in the emergency department more satisfied during a visit if the provider sits and are there ways to encourage providers to sit? These are the questions researchers sought to answer in a prospective, controlled pre-post trial. They found that when a provider sat at some point during the visit, patient satisfaction significantly increased. Satisfaction was measured by patient responses to questions about their provider. When a seat was placed in the room with the provider, the odds of the provider sitting increased by 30 percent.
Grandmas and Global Health—The Role of Culture in Health Promotion
One Health Trust, November 2022
- Knowledge Management
Events
Grandmothers and other senior women are underutilized resources for promoting positive change in communities. The director of the Grandmother Project argues that developing intergenerational consensus for change requires engaging senior women to improve their knowledge and confidence and warns against viewing elders as an obstacle to change. This is a podcast.
Grandmothers—A Neglected Family Resource for Saving Newborn Lives
Aubel, Judi. BMJ Global Health, February 2021
Research Articles
Grandmothers play important roles in newborn care. Grounding newborn research and interventions within a family systems framework that reflects local family structures and dynamics may be more influential in saving lives than strengthening health systems.
Greater Household Food Insecurity Is Associated With Lower Breast Milk Intake Among Infants In Western Kenya
Miller, Joshua D., Sera L. Young, Godfred O. Boateng, et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition, June 2019
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Research Articles
Researchers found a significant relationship between household food insecurity and decreased breast milk intake among HIV-uninfected infants in this cohort. They recommend screening for and integrating programs that reduce food insecurity to increase quantities of breast milk ingested.
Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT
Grantham-McGregor, Sally, Akanksha Adya, Orazio Attanasio, et al. Pediatrics, December 2020
- Early Childhood Development
Research Articles
This randomized control trial found that weekly home visits and mother-child group sessions, both of which included nutritional education, had an equal effect on cognition and language. Because of their lower per-child cost, group sessions are more scalable than home visits. This article is behind a paywall.
Group-Based Parenting Interventions to Promote Child Development in Rural Kenya: A Multi-Arm, Cluster-Randomised Community Effectiveness Trial
Luoto, Jill E., Italo Lopez Garcia, Frances E. Aboud, et al. The Lancet Global Health, December 2020
Research Articles
An integrated child development intervention delivered to mother-child groups by trained community health workers improves cognitive, receptive language, and socioemotional development.
Growth Monitoring and Promotion Expert Consultation Summary Report
USAID Advancing Nutrition, September 2022
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Programmers, researchers, and policymakers discussed advances and opportunities in growth monitoring and promotion since the 2018 convening. Participants recommended creating an operational learning agenda, focusing on improving counseling, continuing to harness the power of technology, continuing discussions about how growth is measured, and holistically considering challenges with, and advantages of, different measurements.
Growth Monitoring and Promotion in Northern Ghana: A Case Study Narrative
USAID Advancing Nutrition, October 2021
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) is a common platform for delivering child health and nutrition services. This report highlights findings, challenges, good practices, and innovations that stakeholders can use to foster healthy child growth and development. In particular, empowering families and communities, supporting health workers, and monitoring data could increase the potential of GMP to prevent malnutrition.
Growth Monitoring and Promotion Technology Solution Aims to Improve Service Delivery and Strategic Use of Data in Bangladesh
Alive & Thrive, December 2022
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
The Government of Bangladesh’s new module for growth monitoring and promotion supports health workers’ service provision and engagement with caregivers. The data dashboard helps frontline managers and supervisors monitor the growth of an individual child, facilitates population-level tracking, and supports more accurate diagnoses and informed policymaking.
Guidance for Assessing Resilience in Market Systems
USAID, September 2019
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Reports and Tools
Resilience has become a high-level objective for many nutrition projects. Though most resilience guidance focuses on the household or community, population-level resilience is heavily reliant on the strength and functionality of market systems through periods of shock or stress. This tool provides guidance on integrating market systems resilience into program analysis and implementation.
Guidance for the Use of Standard and Non-Standard Recipes in Quantitative 24-Hour Dietary Recall Surveys: The Simple Ingredient Method
Intake—Center for Dietary Assessment/FHI Solutions, December 2022
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Reports and Tools
Authors recommend a simplified calculation method for mixed dishes that allows for disaggregating recipe data to the ingredient level. Identifying ingredient proportions requires collecting or estimating the quantity of each ingredient used and the amount in the prepared mixed dish. Survey planners must explore the pros and cons of collecting standard or nonstandard recipe data.
Guidance on SBC for Nutrition During COVID-19: Technical Brief
Breakthrough ACTION, USAID Advancing Nutrition, July 2020
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
Practitioners must find new ways to engage families and communities while following physical distancing guidelines and may need to adapt messaging and calls to action to acknowledge the reality of people’s daily lives. While some messaging will remain the same, some may require changes to address people’s emotional states, country contexts, available services, and local government responses.
A Guidance Package for Developing Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools for Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services
USAID Advancing Nutrition, June 2023
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
This guidance package facilitates the development of country-specific digital tools for delivery and supervision of growth monitoring and promotion services. It provides recommendations to save time and resources; reduce duplication of effort, errors, and inconsistencies; and ensure fidelity to global guidance.
Guideline: Fortification of Wheat Flour with Vitamins and Minerals as a Public Health Strategy
World Health Organization, June 2022
- Food Systems
Reports and Tools
This guideline provides evidence-informed and locally adaptable recommendations on the fortification of wheat flour with vitamins and minerals to improve micronutrient status. Recommendations are helpful for the design, implementation, and scaling of nutrition actions and are particularly relevant to food-fortification programs.
Guiding Principles for Sustainable Healthy Diets
FAO and WHO, October 2019
- Food Systems
Reports and Tools
To celebrate this year’s World Food Day, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization published this document to provide policy recommendations for food systems that are healthy, environmentally friendly, and culturally and economically sustainable. The recommendations encompass a wide range of topics from nutrient intake goals to exclusive breastfeeding to reducing carbon footprints. The authors hope the guidelines will help facilitate the global drive toward sustainable consumption.
Haemoglobin Diagnostic Cut-Offs for Anaemia in Indian Women of Reproductive Age
Ghosh, Santu, Ravindranadh Palika, Teena Dasi, et al. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2023
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Research Articles
This research suggests persistently high rates of anemia could be partially related to overdiagnosis due to an inappropriately high hemoglobin diagnostic cut-off.
Haemoglobin Thresholds to Define Anaemia in a National Sample of Healthy Children and Adolescents Aged 1–19 Years in India: A Population-Based Study
Sachdev, Harshpal Singh, Akash Porwal, Rajib Acharya, et al. The Lancet Global Health, June 2021
Research Articles
Research findings support review of current WHO hemoglobin cutoffs to define anemia. Significant variations in the 5th percentile of hemoglobin values across the 1–19 years age range and between sexes argue against constructing common cutoffs in stratified age groups for convenience.
Halftime for SDGs: Maternal and Newborn Health
Copenhagen Consensus Center, February 2023
- Knowledge Management
Reports and Tools
Analyses found that a package combining increased family planning services with basic emergency obstetric and newborn care produces the highest benefit-cost ratio. Authors estimate that this package will require an additional US$3.2 billion per year and will deliver benefits worth US$278 billion per year in avoided deaths and higher economic growth. For every $1 invested, an estimated $87 of the social and economic benefits are generated.
Harnessing Aquaculture for Healthy Diets
Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, February 2021
Reports and Tools
Aquaculture can contribute to building resilient food systems, improving nutrition, and providing employment and export earnings. Aquaculture products should be integrated into agriculture and trade policies, national food-based dietary guidelines, and nutrition and health policies and strategies.
Harnessing Global Data for Young Children
Early Childhood Development Action Network, December 2020
Events
Researchers, implementers, and civil society actors discuss challenges in measuring participation in pre-primary education, how to use data to advance human rights law for young children, the economic costs of pre-school closures due to COVID-19, and the need for better global data across the period of child development. This is a webinar.
Health Chat Featuring USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker
Voice of America Health Chat, November 2021
- Knowledge Management
Events
Increased investments to offset the consequences of COVID-19, expand social safety nets, and protect access to nutrition services, nutritious foods, and vitamin and mineral supplementation are critical. USAID’s Shawn Baker discusses the importance of closing financing gaps for private-sector engagement in the nutrition sector, and both stabilizing and reforming food systems for nutrition. This is a podcast.
Health Facility-Based Counselling and Community Outreach are Associated with Maternal Dietary Practices in a Cross-Sectional Study from Tanzania
Dearden, Kirk A., Ramu Bishwakarma, Benjamin T. Crookston, et al. BMC Nutrition, August 2021
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Research Articles
Women who received nutrition advice were more likely to eat larger quantities of food during pregnancy compared with women who did not, while women who received antenatal care and advice on nutrition before, during, and after pregnancy were more likely to eat a wider variety of foods. Access to health services was associated with frequency of eating in the previous 24 hours, while receiving advice on nutrition during pregnancy and after giving birth, and having contact with community health workers were associated with mothers’ dietary diversity during the same time period.
Health and Nutrition Research and Evidence Digest
Save the Children, December 2021
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
This edition presents evaluations from various projects, including a nutrition project in Ethiopia, a maternal and child health project in Sri Lanka, and a family planning project in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia. It also features a study focusing on COVID-19 prevention intervention protocols for social behavior change in Somalia; a knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey for a COVID-19 project in Pakistan; research on appropriate infant and young child feeding practices for non-breastfed infants in emergency settings; and an article about integrating water, sanitation, and hygiene into a displacement crisis response.