Individual interactions in a multi-country implementation-focused quality of care network for maternal, newborn and child health: A social network analysis.

ABSTRACT: The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) was established to build a cross-country platform for joint-learning around quality improvement implementation approaches to reduce mortality. This paper describes and explores the structure of the QCN in four countries and at global level. Using Social Network Analysis (SNA), this cross-sectional study maps the QCN networks at global level and in four countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda) and assesses the interactions among actors involved. A pre-tested closed-ended structured questionnaire was completed by 303 key actors in early 2022 following purposeful and snowballing sampling. Data were entered into an online survey tool, and exported into Microsoft Excel for data management and analy

SUBMITTER: Mukinda FK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10513266 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature