Several studies in low- and middle-income settings have shown that mistreatment and disrespectful care during childbirth is a major issue that needs addressing. A multi-country study by Bohren et al. showed that more than a third of women experience...

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High quality neonatal resuscitation is a key to save newborn lives, prevent brain injury and optimize child development, yet the quality of care remains far below standards. In this project, we investigate the use of video filming of neonatal...

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Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a syndrome of non-progressive movement and posture disorder caused by damage to the developing brain during pregnancy, delivery or first two years of life. It is the most common form of motor disability in childhood...

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Golden community in collaboration with the Ministry of health and Population, Government of Nepal (GoN) and Uppsala University has scaled up a set of quality improvement interventions specific to improving intrapartum care aimed atreducing intrapartum related mortality (intrapartum stillbirth and neonatal...

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EVERY NEWBORN – SIMPLIFIED MEASUREMENT INTEGRATING LONGITUDINAL NEURODEVELOPMENT & GROWTH (EN-SMILING) This study is an extension to the Every Newborn Birth Indicator Research Tracking in Hospitals (EN-BIRTH) study in Tanzania, Bangladesh and Nepal. EN-BIRTH is an observational study of 20,000 births...

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Effectiveness of Simulation Based Education on midwifery skills among pre-service and in – service trainees from selected institutes of Nepal An operational research for a period of 2 years among pre-service midwifery students and in-service trainees aims to evaluate...

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Rapid Feedback for quality Improvement Neonatal Resuscitation (REFINE) Study The REFINE study is being carried out in Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences/Western Regional Hospital in Pokhara since November 2018. The aim of the study is to improve maternal and...

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  Uppsala University and Golden Community in partnership with Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal (GoN) in implementing quality improvement of perinatal care in public hospitals of Nepal. Recent preliminary findings from Nepal Demographic Health Survey (NDHS)...

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E-Health – Under the partnership of UNICEF/Nepal and Golden Community. This programme consists of two parts to improve delivery of health service using eHealth. The first part is about tele-consultation between health workers and the second part is about...

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Timing of cord clamping is a topic of debate that has somehow ended up with avoidance of immediate/early cord clamping yet not adhered to delayed cord clamping practice with the lack of enough evidence of its long-term effects. Most...

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