District health managers perspectives of introducing a new service: a qualitative study of the community-based newborn care programme in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The planning, resourcing, implementation and monitoring of new programmes by district health managers is integral for success and sustainability. Ethiopia introduced the Community-Based Newborn Care programme in 2014 to improve newborn survival: an innovative component allowed community health workers to provide antibiotics for young infants with possible serious bacterial infection when referral was not possible. Informed by the World Health Organization health system building block framework, we aimed to study the capacity and operational challenges of introducing this new health service from the perspective of programme implementers and managers at the district level 20 months after programme initiation.

Methods

This qualitative study was part of a programme ev

SUBMITTER: Berhanu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8351343 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature