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Meghan Bruce Kumar
Researcher at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Publications - 14
Citations - 215
Meghan Bruce Kumar is an academic researcher from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Community health & Health care. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 14 publications receiving 113 citations. Previous affiliations of Meghan Bruce Kumar include University of London & Emory University.
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Does Supportive Supervision Enhance Community Health Worker Motivation? A Mixed-Methods Study in Four African Countries
Maryse Kok,Frédérique Vallières,Olivia Tulloch,Meghan Bruce Kumar,Aschenaki Z. Kea,Robinson Karuga,Sozinho Ndima,Kingsley Chikaphupha,Sally Theobald,Miriam Taegtmeyer +9 more
TL;DR: There is potential for integrating supportive group supervision models in CHW programmes and a combination of group with individual or peer supervision, preferably accompanied with methods that assess CHW performance and corresponding feedback systems, could yield improved motivation and performance.
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A conceptual framework for measuring community health workforce performance within primary health care systems
Smisha Agarwal,Smisha Agarwal,Pooja Sripad,Caroline Johnson,Karen Kirk,Benjamin Bellows,Joseph Ana,Vince Blaser,Meghan Bruce Kumar,Kathleen Buchholz,Alain Casseus,Nan Chen,Hannah Sarah Faich Dini,Rachel Hoy Deussom,David Jacobstein,Richard Kintu,Nazo Kureshy,Lory Meoli,Lilian Otiso,Neil Pakenham-Walsh,Jérôme Pfaffmann Zambruni,Mallika Raghavan,Ryan Schwarz,Ryan Schwarz,John Townsend,Brittney Varpilah,William Weiss,Charlotte E. Warren +27 more
TL;DR: A framework, list of indicators, and measurement considerations for monitoring CHW performance in low- and middle-income countries and adoption of the proposed framework and associated indicators by CHW program implementors may improve programmatic effectiveness, strengthen their accountability to national community health systems, drive programmatic quality improvement, and plausibly improve the impact of these programs.
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'Do you trust those data?'-a mixed-methods study assessing the quality of data reported by community health workers in Kenya and Malawi.
Regeru Njoroge Regeru,Kingsley Chikaphupha,Meghan Bruce Kumar,Lilian Otiso,Miriam Taegtmeyer +4 more
TL;DR: It is found that CHWs experienced tensions at the interface between the formal health system and the communities they served, mediated by the social and cultural expectations of their role, and affected data quality in both contexts.
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What factors do make quality improvement work in primary health care? Experiences of maternal health quality improvement teams in three Puskesmas in Indonesia.
Ralalicia Limato,Patricia Tumbelaka,Rukhsana Ahmed,Rukhsana Ahmed,Sudirman Nasir,Din Syafruddin,Hermen Ormel,Meghan Bruce Kumar,Meghan Bruce Kumar,Miriam Taegtmeyer,Miriam Taegtmeyer,Maryse Kok +11 more
TL;DR: This investigation investigated the factors which influenced the process of QI based on experience of maternal health QI teams in three Puskesmas in Cianjur district, West Java province, Indonesia and found four main factors contributed to the process.
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Using research networks to generate trustworthy qualitative public health research findings from multiple contexts.
Lot Nyirenda,Meghan Bruce Kumar,Sally Theobald,Malabika Sarker,Malabika Sarker,Musonda Simwinga,Moses Kumwenda,Cheryl Johnson,Karin Hatzold,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Euphemia L Sibanda,Miriam Taegtmeyer +12 more
TL;DR: Key lessons and reflections from both QRN experiences on how to conduct trustworthy qualitative research across different contexts are distils, describing how credibility, dependability, confirmability and transferability can be enhanced and share good practices to be considered by other researchers.