Donat Shamba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4218797 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donat Shamba |
| PRENOMES | Donat |
| SOBRENOME | Shamba |
| ASSINATURA | SHAMBA D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ifakara Health Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7431-7199 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Stillbirth and newborn data quality and use and related input and process factors
Background: High quality data is mandatory when shaping action-oriented policies aimed at reducing preventable neonatal deaths. Ethiopia has a high a neonatal mortality rate, but there has been limited assessment of the quality and use of newborn data, and its contributing factors. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in Ethiopia from November 2022 to September 2023 in 35 sites: 24 facilities, 10 subnational data offices, and the Ministr…
Mechanisms for stimulating facility quality improvement
Tanzania launched the nationwide Star Rating Assessment in 2015 and has implemented it as a cornerstone of its national quality improvement program. We use variation in assessment results to explore mechanisms through which facilities improve quality. A mixed-methods positive deviance approach was applied by ranking all primary care facilities included in the Star Rating Assessment (n = 5,595) by their change in score between 2015/16 and 2017/18.…
Stillbirth and newborn data quality and use and related input and process factors
Background: The reduction of preventable newborn deaths in low- and middle-income countries is a global priority. The availability of high-quality newborn and stillbirth data is essential for shaping action-oriented policies and interventions towards resolving these challenges. Using a mixed-methods approach, we evaluated the input and process factors hindering data quality and use in Uganda. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from Nov…
We discovered new ways of learning’
BACKGROUND: Children with disabilities face many barriers to early childhood development services and to pre-primary education. Evidence on inclusive school readiness and community-based approaches in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) still remains limited. OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility and acceptability of a co-designed training programme for caregivers to support school readiness among children aged 4-6 years in Bangladesh, Nepal…
Small and sick newborn care
Health Facility Assessments (HFAs) are important for measuring and tracking service readiness for small and sick newborn care (SSNC). NEST360 Alliance aims to reduce neonatal mortality in four countries (Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania). NEST360 and UNICEF facilitated HFA tool design with ministries of health in four African countries and developed two complimentary approaches to summarise readiness. Using the NEST360/UNICEF HFA tool, we collect…
Facility newborn and stillbirth data use and enabling factors at different levels of the health system
Background: Improving data quality and use is a priority identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce stillbirths and newborn deaths; however, few studies have documented newborn and stillbirth data use in the African Region. To address this gap, we conducted a cross-sectional study from November 2022 to July 2024 in 12 regions and four city administrations across the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. …
Users’ capabilities related to the electronic RHIS for newborn and stillbirth indicators
Background: The electronic routine health information system (eRHIS) is crucial for policy and planning. However, its effectiveness depends on end-users' capabilities in utilising it. Using a mixed-methods approach, we evaluated end-users' data in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda in one of the first standardised cross-country assessment of eRHIS users' capabilities focussed on newborn and stillbirth indicators. M…
Functionalities of electronic routine health information systems related to newborn data
Background: Adequate functionality of electronic routine health information systems (eRHISs) is crucial for data use, yet few studies explored it in relation to newborn and stillbirth data in Africa. Methods: We conducted this cross-sectional study between November 2022 and July 2024 in data offices at central and subnational levels in 12 regions and 4 city administrations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. Exc…
Organisational and management factors and related end-users’ perspectives relevant to newborn and stillbirth data at different levels of the health system
Background: As few studies systematically analysed organisational and management factors related to newborn and stillbirth data quality, we sought to identify specific gaps in these factors to provide evidence for planning tailored actions. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional survey in 12 regions and 4 city administrations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda between November 2022 and July 2024, collecting dat…
Availability and the quality of key newborn data within routine health facility data
Background: With declining funding for population-based household surveys, routine health facility data offer a promising alternative for tracking newborn health and service quality. However, their utility depends on data quality. We assessed the quality of ten data elements within routine health information systems in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda, seven of which align with the Every Newborn Action Plan core …
Unwrapping the Global Financing Facility
The Global Financing Facility (GFF), launched in 2015, aims to catalyse funding for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and nutrition. Few independent assessments have evaluated its processes and impact. We conducted a multi-layered policy analysis of GFF documents - the Investment Cases (ICs) and the GFF-linked World Bank Project Appraisal Documents (PADs) - examining the content of GFF documents for 28 countries, comp…
Who is at the table and who has the power? Case study analysis of decision-making processes for the Global Financing Facility in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: In 2015, Tanzania joined the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a global health initiative for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N). Despite its resource mobilization goals, little is known about power dynamics in GFF policy processes. This paper presents the first power analysis of Tanzania's GFF engagement. OBJECTIVE: To examine policy processes in developing GFF documents during its f…
How and why does mode of birth affect processes for routine data collection and use? A qualitative study in Bangladesh and Tanzania
The World Health Organization recognises Routine Health Information System (RHIS) data as integral to data-driven health systems; needed to improve intrapartum outcomes for maternal and newborn health worldwide. However, research in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggests that mode of birth affects register data accuracy, but little is known about why. To address this gap, we undertook qualitative research in these two public-sector health systems. We c…
Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health
Improving quality of care could avert most of the 4.5 million maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths that occur each year. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) aims to catalyse the national scale-up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions through focused investments. Achieving impact and value for money requires high, equitable coverage and high quality of interventions. This study examines whether the rhetoric of increasing cover…
The impact of community and provider-driven social accountability interventions on contraceptive use
The CaPSAI Project has been registered at Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000378123, 11/03/2019)
The Methodological Approach to a Process Evaluation of a Community and Provider-Driven Social Accountability Intervention to Increase Contraceptive Uptake and Use
The community and provider-driven social accountability intervention (CAPSAI) project was a complex intervention consisting of interacting components, actors and processes, implemented in Ghana and Tanzania from 2018 to 2020. It aimed to measure the impact of a social accountability intervention implemented in family planning services, on contraceptive uptake and use. The intervention incorporated a process evaluation to identify key causal pathw…
Impact of community and provider-driven social accountability interventions on contraceptive uptake in Ghana and Tanzania
The CaPSAI Project has been registered at the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000378123, 11/03/2019)
A systematic review of influences on implementation of peer support work for adults with mental health problems
Challenges to peer support in low- and middle-income countries during Covid-19
Adaptation and validation of social accountability measures in the context of contraceptive services in Ghana and Tanzania
ACTRN12619000378123
A qualitative study of discourses on heterosexual anal sexual practice among key, and general populations in Tanzania
Discourses among young women and adult men across the study populations were supportive of HAS. These findings provide useful insights in understanding how different population groups talked about HAS and offer a range of terms that interventions and further research on magnitude of HAS could draw on when addressing health risks of HAS among different study populations
The reliability of a newborn foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in southern Tanzania
The newborn foot length tool used by community volunteers to identify small babies born at home was moderately reliable in southern Tanzania where a large number of births occur at home and scales are not available. Newborn foot length is not the best anthropometric proxy for birthweight but was simple to implement at home in the first days of life when the risk of newborn death is highest
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The reliability of a newborn foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in southern Tanzania
The newborn foot length tool used by community volunteers to identify small babies born at home was moderately reliable in southern Tanzania where a large number of births occur at home and scales are not available. Newborn foot length is not the best anthropometric proxy for birthweight but was simple to implement at home in the first days of life when the risk of newborn death is highest
A qualitative study of discourses on heterosexual anal sexual practice among key, and general populations in Tanzania
Discourses among young women and adult men across the study populations were supportive of HAS. These findings provide useful insights in understanding how different population groups talked about HAS and offer a range of terms that interventions and further research on magnitude of HAS could draw on when addressing health risks of HAS among different study populations
A systematic review of influences on implementation of peer support work for adults with mental health problems
Challenges to peer support in low- and middle-income countries during Covid-19
Adaptation and validation of social accountability measures in the context of contraceptive services in Ghana and Tanzania
ACTRN12619000378123
Impact of community and provider-driven social accountability interventions on contraceptive uptake in Ghana and Tanzania
The CaPSAI Project has been registered at the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000378123, 11/03/2019)
The impact of community and provider-driven social accountability interventions on contraceptive use
The CaPSAI Project has been registered at Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000378123, 11/03/2019)
The Methodological Approach to a Process Evaluation of a Community and Provider-Driven Social Accountability Intervention to Increase Contraceptive Uptake and Use
The community and provider-driven social accountability intervention (CAPSAI) project was a complex intervention consisting of interacting components, actors and processes, implemented in Ghana and Tanzania from 2018 to 2020. It aimed to measure the impact of a social accountability intervention implemented in family planning services, on contraceptive uptake and use. The intervention incorporated a process evaluation to identify key causal pathw…
How and why does mode of birth affect processes for routine data collection and use? A qualitative study in Bangladesh and Tanzania
The World Health Organization recognises Routine Health Information System (RHIS) data as integral to data-driven health systems; needed to improve intrapartum outcomes for maternal and newborn health worldwide. However, research in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggests that mode of birth affects register data accuracy, but little is known about why. To address this gap, we undertook qualitative research in these two public-sector health systems. We c…
Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health
Improving quality of care could avert most of the 4.5 million maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths that occur each year. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) aims to catalyse the national scale-up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions through focused investments. Achieving impact and value for money requires high, equitable coverage and high quality of interventions. This study examines whether the rhetoric of increasing cover…
Small and sick newborn care
Health Facility Assessments (HFAs) are important for measuring and tracking service readiness for small and sick newborn care (SSNC). NEST360 Alliance aims to reduce neonatal mortality in four countries (Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania). NEST360 and UNICEF facilitated HFA tool design with ministries of health in four African countries and developed two complimentary approaches to summarise readiness. Using the NEST360/UNICEF HFA tool, we collect…
Facility newborn and stillbirth data use and enabling factors at different levels of the health system
Background: Improving data quality and use is a priority identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce stillbirths and newborn deaths; however, few studies have documented newborn and stillbirth data use in the African Region. To address this gap, we conducted a cross-sectional study from November 2022 to July 2024 in 12 regions and four city administrations across the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. …
Users’ capabilities related to the electronic RHIS for newborn and stillbirth indicators
Background: The electronic routine health information system (eRHIS) is crucial for policy and planning. However, its effectiveness depends on end-users' capabilities in utilising it. Using a mixed-methods approach, we evaluated end-users' data in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda in one of the first standardised cross-country assessment of eRHIS users' capabilities focussed on newborn and stillbirth indicators. M…
Functionalities of electronic routine health information systems related to newborn data
Background: Adequate functionality of electronic routine health information systems (eRHISs) is crucial for data use, yet few studies explored it in relation to newborn and stillbirth data in Africa. Methods: We conducted this cross-sectional study between November 2022 and July 2024 in data offices at central and subnational levels in 12 regions and 4 city administrations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. Exc…
Organisational and management factors and related end-users’ perspectives relevant to newborn and stillbirth data at different levels of the health system
Background: As few studies systematically analysed organisational and management factors related to newborn and stillbirth data quality, we sought to identify specific gaps in these factors to provide evidence for planning tailored actions. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional survey in 12 regions and 4 city administrations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda between November 2022 and July 2024, collecting dat…
Availability and the quality of key newborn data within routine health facility data
Background: With declining funding for population-based household surveys, routine health facility data offer a promising alternative for tracking newborn health and service quality. However, their utility depends on data quality. We assessed the quality of ten data elements within routine health information systems in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda, seven of which align with the Every Newborn Action Plan core …
Unwrapping the Global Financing Facility
The Global Financing Facility (GFF), launched in 2015, aims to catalyse funding for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and nutrition. Few independent assessments have evaluated its processes and impact. We conducted a multi-layered policy analysis of GFF documents - the Investment Cases (ICs) and the GFF-linked World Bank Project Appraisal Documents (PADs) - examining the content of GFF documents for 28 countries, comp…
Who is at the table and who has the power? Case study analysis of decision-making processes for the Global Financing Facility in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: In 2015, Tanzania joined the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a global health initiative for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N). Despite its resource mobilization goals, little is known about power dynamics in GFF policy processes. This paper presents the first power analysis of Tanzania's GFF engagement. OBJECTIVE: To examine policy processes in developing GFF documents during its f…
Stillbirth and newborn data quality and use and related input and process factors
Background: High quality data is mandatory when shaping action-oriented policies aimed at reducing preventable neonatal deaths. Ethiopia has a high a neonatal mortality rate, but there has been limited assessment of the quality and use of newborn data, and its contributing factors. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in Ethiopia from November 2022 to September 2023 in 35 sites: 24 facilities, 10 subnational data offices, and the Ministr…
Mechanisms for stimulating facility quality improvement
Tanzania launched the nationwide Star Rating Assessment in 2015 and has implemented it as a cornerstone of its national quality improvement program. We use variation in assessment results to explore mechanisms through which facilities improve quality. A mixed-methods positive deviance approach was applied by ranking all primary care facilities included in the Star Rating Assessment (n = 5,595) by their change in score between 2015/16 and 2017/18.…
Stillbirth and newborn data quality and use and related input and process factors
Background: The reduction of preventable newborn deaths in low- and middle-income countries is a global priority. The availability of high-quality newborn and stillbirth data is essential for shaping action-oriented policies and interventions towards resolving these challenges. Using a mixed-methods approach, we evaluated the input and process factors hindering data quality and use in Uganda. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from Nov…
We discovered new ways of learning’
BACKGROUND: Children with disabilities face many barriers to early childhood development services and to pre-primary education. Evidence on inclusive school readiness and community-based approaches in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) still remains limited. OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility and acceptability of a co-designed training programme for caregivers to support school readiness among children aged 4-6 years in Bangladesh, Nepal…
Global Maternal and Child Health (17 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Nursing (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Psychological intervention (8 obras) · Tanzania (8 obras) · Health care (6 obras) · Public health (6 obras) · Qualitative research (6 obras) · Accountability (5 obras)