tailieunhanh - Improving Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, and Family Planning Programs through the Application of Collaborative Improvement in Developing Countries: A Practical Orientation Guide

Women’s movements like International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo and Women’s conference in Beijing sought to mainstream reproductive health and gender issues in the development discourse to establish women’s rights, ameliorate their poor health status and to empower them (International Conference on population and Development, 1994; Beijing declaration and Platform for action, 1995). On the other hand, the Child Survival Revolution, the World Summit for Children, the Child Right Movement and the United Nation’s ‘The World Fit for Children’ give priority to child health committing to reducing under-five mortality (Child Survival Partnership 2004). More recently, the UN calls for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Table 1). | USAID FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT TECHNICAL REPORT Improving Maternal Newborn Child Health and Family Planning Programs through the Application of Collaborative Improvement in Developing Countries A Practical Orientation Guide MARCH 2012 This guide was prepared by University Research Co. LLC URC for review by the United States Agency for International Development USAID and authored by Youssef Tawfik Thada Bornstein Lani Marquez Jorge Hermida Maina Boucar and Katlyn Donohue of URC. It was developed under the USAID Health Care Improvement Project which is made possible by the generous support of the American people through USAID. Front cover Top A coach working with a quality improvement team in Uganda. Photo by Annie Clark URC. Center A member of a quality improvement team explains her team s results to other quality improvement teams in Afghanistan. Photo by Mirwais Rahimzai URC. Bottom Hospital teams in the obstetric and newborn care complications collaborative discuss their results in a learning session in Huehuetenango Guatemala. Photo by Mélida Chaguaceda URC. TECHNICAL REPORT Improving Maternal Newborn Child Health and Family Planning Programs through the Application of Collaborative Improvement in Developing Countries A Practical Orientation Guide MARCH 2012 Youssef Tawfik Thada Bornstein Lani Marquez Jorge Hermida Maina Boucar Katlyn Donohue DISCLAIMER The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States .