Helen de Pinho

TL;DR: In regions in which attended delivery rates are low despite availability of primary care facilities, policy experiments should test the effect of targeted quality improvements on facility use.

TL;DR: The difficult circumstances under which maternity staff are operating and the professional and emotional toll this exacts are revealed and thoughtful strategies that match supply to demand are necessary to mitigate the effects of working in this context and to improve the quality of obstetric care for women in Malawi.

TL;DR: The perceptions of district health management teams in Tanzania and Malawi on their role as supervisors and on the challenges to effective supervision at the district level are explored.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a large-scale survey of 1,561 mid-level cadre healthcare workers delivering obstetric care in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique.

TL;DR: A systems analysis using participatory group model building provided a mechanism to identify key pathways of threat and adaptation with regard to health service functioning and suggested generalizable systems characteristics supportive of resilience are suggested.