Dimagi : Improving Maternal and Newborn Care
India suffers from a high maternal and infant mortality rate, especially in rural areas, where poor women do not receive effective care and one in every 22 infants die within one year of life. In 2010, Dimagi, in partnership with Catholic Relief Se...
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| Format: | Case Study |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/240291495100084307/Dimagi-improving-maternal-and-newborn-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27661 |
| Summary: | India suffers from a high maternal and
infant mortality rate, especially in rural areas, where poor
women do not receive effective care and one in every 22
infants die within one year of life. In 2010, Dimagi, in
partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), IntraHealth
International, Real Medicine Foundation, and Save the
Children, deployed CommCare mobile technology to help
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) improve their
care for pregnant women and their newborns at the last mile
in rural India. CommCare uses audio, video, imagery, short
message service (SMS) texting, data and tracking forms,
multiple languages, and other features to standardize ASHAs’
service delivery, improve counseling techniques and patient
coordination, and collect real-time data for performance
monitoring. The multimedia aids enhance client engagement
and assist low-literate ASHAs and their clients. Through a
partnership with the Government of India and the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, a CommCare-based application is
being scaled across eight Indian states to strengthen the
monitoring of the service delivery of anganwadi center’s in
the country. The CommCare mobile application is intended to
replace the extensive paper registers anganwadi workers are
required to maintain. The app is designed to improve the
care anganwadi workers provide their communities, tracking
distribution of immunizations and supplementary food,
attendance of children at preschool, and the nutrition
status of children up to age five. |
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