Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality
Improving quality of care could avert most of the 4.5 million maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths that occur each year. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) aims to catalyse the national scale-up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions through focused investments. Achieving impact...
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| description | Improving quality of care could avert most of the 4.5 million maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths that occur each year. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) aims to catalyse the national scale-up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions through focused investments. Achieving impact and value for money requires high, equitable coverage and high quality of interventions. This study examines whether the rhetoric of increasing coverage together with quality has informed investment strategies in MNH through a secondary analysis of 25 GFF documents from 11 African countries. The analysis shows that the country GFF-related documents incorporate some MNH-related quality of care components; however, there is a lack of clarity in what is meant by quality and the absence of core MNH quality of care components as identified by the World Health Organization’s MNH quality framework, especially experience of care and newborn care. Many of the Investment Cases have a more diagonal focus on MNH service delivery considering the clinical dimensions of quality, while the investments described in the Project Appraisal Documents are primarily on horizontal structural aspects of the health system strengthening environment. The GFF is at the forefront of investing in MNH globally and provides an important opportunity to explicitly link health systems investments and quality interventions within the MNH continuum of care for optimal impact. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d2d32f50135b43ec8f56f0f4587e971f2025-02-05T12:46:14ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Health Action1654-98802024-12-0117110.1080/16549716.2024.24064862406486Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on qualityMeghan Bruce Kumar0Mary Kinney1Joël Kiendrébéogo2Donat Shamba3Joy E. Lawn4Peter Waiswa5Northumbria UniversityUniversity of the Western CapeRecherche pour la santé et le développement (RESADE)Ifakara Health InstituteMakerere University College of Health SciencesDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International HealthImproving quality of care could avert most of the 4.5 million maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths that occur each year. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) aims to catalyse the national scale-up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions through focused investments. Achieving impact and value for money requires high, equitable coverage and high quality of interventions. This study examines whether the rhetoric of increasing coverage together with quality has informed investment strategies in MNH through a secondary analysis of 25 GFF documents from 11 African countries. The analysis shows that the country GFF-related documents incorporate some MNH-related quality of care components; however, there is a lack of clarity in what is meant by quality and the absence of core MNH quality of care components as identified by the World Health Organization’s MNH quality framework, especially experience of care and newborn care. Many of the Investment Cases have a more diagonal focus on MNH service delivery considering the clinical dimensions of quality, while the investments described in the Project Appraisal Documents are primarily on horizontal structural aspects of the health system strengthening environment. The GFF is at the forefront of investing in MNH globally and provides an important opportunity to explicitly link health systems investments and quality interventions within the MNH continuum of care for optimal impact.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2024.2406486global financing facility for women, children and adolescents: examining national priorities, processes and investments |
| spellingShingle | Meghan Bruce Kumar Mary Kinney Joël Kiendrébéogo Donat Shamba Joy E. Lawn Peter Waiswa Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality Global Health Action global financing facility for women, children and adolescents: examining national priorities, processes and investments |
| title | Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality |
| title_full | Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality |
| title_fullStr | Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality |
| title_short | Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality |
| title_sort | examining priorities and investments made through the global financing facility for maternal and newborn health a sub analysis on quality |
| topic | global financing facility for women, children and adolescents: examining national priorities, processes and investments |
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