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Engaging the private sector to deliver quality maternal and newborn health services for universal health coverage: lessons from policy dialogues

The private health sector is becoming increasingly important in discussions on improving the quality of care for maternal and newborn health (MNH). Yet information rarely addresses what engaging the private sector for MNH means and how to do it. In 2019, the Network for Improving Quality of Care for...

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Autores principales: Lattof, Samantha R, Maliqi, Blerta, Yaqub, Nuhu, Asiedu, Ernest Konadu, Ukaire, Binyerem, Ojo, Olumuyiwa, Goodman, Catherine, Ross, Susan Rae, Hailegebriel, Tedbabe D, Appleford, Gabrielle, George, Joby
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10546162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37778757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008939
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author Lattof, Samantha R
Maliqi, Blerta
Yaqub, Nuhu
Asiedu, Ernest Konadu
Ukaire, Binyerem
Ojo, Olumuyiwa
Goodman, Catherine
Ross, Susan Rae
Hailegebriel, Tedbabe D
Appleford, Gabrielle
George, Joby
author_facet Lattof, Samantha R
Maliqi, Blerta
Yaqub, Nuhu
Asiedu, Ernest Konadu
Ukaire, Binyerem
Ojo, Olumuyiwa
Goodman, Catherine
Ross, Susan Rae
Hailegebriel, Tedbabe D
Appleford, Gabrielle
George, Joby
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description The private health sector is becoming increasingly important in discussions on improving the quality of care for maternal and newborn health (MNH). Yet information rarely addresses what engaging the private sector for MNH means and how to do it. In 2019, the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (the Network) initiated exploratory research to better understand how to ensure that the private sector delivers quality care and what the public sector must do to facilitate and sustain this process. This article details the approach and lessons learnt from two Network countries, Ghana and Nigeria, where teams explored the mechanisms for engaging the private sector in delivering MNH services with quality. The situational analyses in Ghana and Nigeria revealed challenges in engaging the private sector, including lack of accurate data, mistrust and an unlevel playing field. Challenging market conditions hindered a greater private sector role in delivering quality MNH services. Based on these analyses, participants at multistakeholder workshops recommended actions addressing policy/administration, regulation and service delivery. The findings from this research help strengthen the evidence base on engaging the private sector to deliver quality MNH services and show that this likely requires engagement with broader health systems factors. In recognition of this need for a balanced approach and the new WHO private sector strategy, the WHO has updated the tools and process for countries interested in conducting this research. The Nigerian Ministry of Health is stewarding additional policy dialogues to further engage the private sector.
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spelling pubmed-105461622023-10-04 Engaging the private sector to deliver quality maternal and newborn health services for universal health coverage: lessons from policy dialogues Lattof, Samantha R Maliqi, Blerta Yaqub, Nuhu Asiedu, Ernest Konadu Ukaire, Binyerem Ojo, Olumuyiwa Goodman, Catherine Ross, Susan Rae Hailegebriel, Tedbabe D Appleford, Gabrielle George, Joby BMJ Glob Health Practice The private health sector is becoming increasingly important in discussions on improving the quality of care for maternal and newborn health (MNH). Yet information rarely addresses what engaging the private sector for MNH means and how to do it. In 2019, the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (the Network) initiated exploratory research to better understand how to ensure that the private sector delivers quality care and what the public sector must do to facilitate and sustain this process. This article details the approach and lessons learnt from two Network countries, Ghana and Nigeria, where teams explored the mechanisms for engaging the private sector in delivering MNH services with quality. The situational analyses in Ghana and Nigeria revealed challenges in engaging the private sector, including lack of accurate data, mistrust and an unlevel playing field. Challenging market conditions hindered a greater private sector role in delivering quality MNH services. Based on these analyses, participants at multistakeholder workshops recommended actions addressing policy/administration, regulation and service delivery. The findings from this research help strengthen the evidence base on engaging the private sector to deliver quality MNH services and show that this likely requires engagement with broader health systems factors. In recognition of this need for a balanced approach and the new WHO private sector strategy, the WHO has updated the tools and process for countries interested in conducting this research. The Nigerian Ministry of Health is stewarding additional policy dialogues to further engage the private sector. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10546162/ /pubmed/37778757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008939 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Yaqub, Nuhu
Asiedu, Ernest Konadu
Ukaire, Binyerem
Ojo, Olumuyiwa
Goodman, Catherine
Ross, Susan Rae
Hailegebriel, Tedbabe D
Appleford, Gabrielle
George, Joby
Engaging the private sector to deliver quality maternal and newborn health services for universal health coverage: lessons from policy dialogues
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title_short Engaging the private sector to deliver quality maternal and newborn health services for universal health coverage: lessons from policy dialogues
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10546162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37778757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008939
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