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LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi
Background African countries are working to achieve rapid reductions in maternal and child mortality and meet their targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Partners in the Catalytic Initiative to Save One Million Lives (CI) are assisting them by providing funding and technical assistanc...
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author | Bryce, Jennifer Friberg, Ingrid K Kraushaar, Daniel Nsona, Humphreys Afenyadu, Godwin Yaw Nare, Narcisse Kyei-Faried, Sardick Walker, Neff |
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description | Background African countries are working to achieve rapid reductions in maternal and child mortality and meet their targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Partners in the Catalytic Initiative to Save One Million Lives (CI) are assisting them by providing funding and technical assistance to increase and accelerate coverage for proven interventions. Here we describe how the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) was used as part of an early assessment of the expected impact of CI plans in Malawi, Burkina Faso and Ghana. Methods LiST builds on country-specific demographic and cause-of-death profiles, and models the effect of changes in coverage for proven interventions on future levels of mortality among children less than 5 years of age. We worked with representatives of Ministries of Health and their development partners to apply LiST to assess the potential impact of CI plans and coverage targets, generating a short list of the highest-priority interventions for additional scale-up to achieve rapid reductions in under-5 mortality. Results The results show that in each country, achieving national coverage targets for just four or five high-impact interventions could reduce under-5 mortality by at least 20% by 2011, relative to 2006 levels. Even greater gains could be obtained in Burkina Faso and Ghana by scaling up these high-impact interventions to 80%. Discussion LiST can contribute to the development of stronger programmes by identifying the highest-impact interventions in a given epidemiological setting. The quality of LiST estimates is dependent on the available data on coverage levels and causes of death, and assumes that the target levels of coverage are feasible in a given context while maintaining service quality. Further experience is needed in the feasibility and usefulness of LiST as part of the program planning process at district and subdistrict levels. |
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spelling | pubmed-28458592010-03-29 LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi Bryce, Jennifer Friberg, Ingrid K Kraushaar, Daniel Nsona, Humphreys Afenyadu, Godwin Yaw Nare, Narcisse Kyei-Faried, Sardick Walker, Neff Int J Epidemiol Articles Background African countries are working to achieve rapid reductions in maternal and child mortality and meet their targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Partners in the Catalytic Initiative to Save One Million Lives (CI) are assisting them by providing funding and technical assistance to increase and accelerate coverage for proven interventions. Here we describe how the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) was used as part of an early assessment of the expected impact of CI plans in Malawi, Burkina Faso and Ghana. Methods LiST builds on country-specific demographic and cause-of-death profiles, and models the effect of changes in coverage for proven interventions on future levels of mortality among children less than 5 years of age. We worked with representatives of Ministries of Health and their development partners to apply LiST to assess the potential impact of CI plans and coverage targets, generating a short list of the highest-priority interventions for additional scale-up to achieve rapid reductions in under-5 mortality. Results The results show that in each country, achieving national coverage targets for just four or five high-impact interventions could reduce under-5 mortality by at least 20% by 2011, relative to 2006 levels. Even greater gains could be obtained in Burkina Faso and Ghana by scaling up these high-impact interventions to 80%. Discussion LiST can contribute to the development of stronger programmes by identifying the highest-impact interventions in a given epidemiological setting. The quality of LiST estimates is dependent on the available data on coverage levels and causes of death, and assumes that the target levels of coverage are feasible in a given context while maintaining service quality. Further experience is needed in the feasibility and usefulness of LiST as part of the program planning process at district and subdistrict levels. Oxford University Press 2010-04 2010-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2845859/ /pubmed/20348125 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq020 Text en Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. © The Author 2010; all rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/uk/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Bryce, Jennifer Friberg, Ingrid K Kraushaar, Daniel Nsona, Humphreys Afenyadu, Godwin Yaw Nare, Narcisse Kyei-Faried, Sardick Walker, Neff LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi |
title | LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi |
title_full | LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi |
title_fullStr | LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi |
title_full_unstemmed | LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi |
title_short | LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi |
title_sort | list as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from burkina faso, ghana and malawi |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845859/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20348125 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq020 |
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