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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Main Authors:	Agapitova, Natalia, Navarrete Moreno, Cristina
Format:	Case Study
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	MATERNAL HEALTH NEWBORN HEALTH INFANT MORTALITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/240291495100084307/Dimagi-improving-maternal-and-newborn-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27661

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spelling	okr-10986-276612021-05-25T09:52:01Z Dimagi : Improving Maternal and Newborn Care Agapitova, Natalia Navarrete Moreno, Cristina MATERNAL HEALTH NEWBORN HEALTH INFANT MORTALITY 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. 2017-07-31T22:05:35Z 2017-07-31T22:05:35Z 2017-04 Case Study http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/240291495100084307/Dimagi-improving-maternal-and-newborn-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27661 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper South Asia India
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description	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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author	Agapitova, Natalia Navarrete Moreno, Cristina
author_facet	Agapitova, Natalia Navarrete Moreno, Cristina
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title	Dimagi : Improving Maternal and Newborn Care
title_short	Dimagi : Improving Maternal and Newborn Care
title_full	Dimagi : Improving Maternal and Newborn Care
title_fullStr	Dimagi : Improving Maternal and Newborn Care
title_full_unstemmed	Dimagi : Improving Maternal and Newborn Care
title_sort	dimagi : improving maternal and newborn care
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
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