Assessing value-for-money in maternal and newborn health

Assessing value-for-money in maternal and newborn health

Responding to increasing demands to demonstrate value-for-money (VfM) for maternal and newborn health interventions, and in the absence of VfM analysis in peer-reviewed literature, this paper reviews VfM components and methods, critiques their applicability, strengths and weakness and proposes how VfM assessments can be improved. VfM comprises four components: economy, efficiency, effectiveness...

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Assessing the validity of indicators of the quality of maternal and newborn health care in Kenya.

BACKGROUND The measurement of progress in maternal and newborn health often relies on data provided by women in surveys on the quality of care they received. The majority of these indicators, however, including the widely tracked "skilled attendance at birth" indicator, have not been validated. We assess the validity of a large set of maternal and newborn health indicators that are included or ...

WASH and Maternal and Newborn Health

Due to the multiple pathways through which poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) may adversely impact maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes [2], the time to act has arrived. This briefing paper documents the state of the evidence on WASH and MNH and the Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE) Consortium’s contribution to our understanding, highlights opport...

Improved investment in mental health services: value for money?

BACKGROUND This paper examines what has been achieved in the specialist mental health services by the vastly increased health expenditures that the National Health Service (NHS) has enjoyed in the past 5 years. AIMS To describe the way money has been spent in specialist mental health services and examine why problems remain after such admirable changes to already available resources. METHOD...