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Bridging Implementation Science and Demography to Understand the Dynamics of Child Survival in Tanzania During the Millennium Development Goal Era- [electronic resource]
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Bridging Implementation Science and Demography to Understand the Dynamics of Child Survival in Tanzania During the Millennium Development Goal Era- [electronic resource]
자료유형  
 학위논문파일 국외
최종처리일시  
20240214101220
ISBN  
9798379910006
DDC  
614
저자명  
Baynes, Colin.
서명/저자  
Bridging Implementation Science and Demography to Understand the Dynamics of Child Survival in Tanzania During the Millennium Development Goal Era - [electronic resource]
발행사항  
[S.l.]: : University of Washington., 2023
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
형태사항  
1 online resource(158 p.)
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Sherr, Kenneth.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2023.
사용제한주기  
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초록/해제  
요약Although on the decline, the global burden of preventable child mortality remains concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent decades, governments in the region have sought to ameliorate this disparity by introducing numerous evidence-based interventions known to improve child survival. In Tanzania, these strategies were effective, as evidenced in 2015 by the country's achievement of the child survival Millennium Development Goal (MDG). Contemporaneously, however, fertility levels in Tanzania stalled despite anticipation that a transition would ensue in the wake of widespread child mortality reduction. Understanding the determinants and mechanisms through which child survival interventions in Tanzania achieved impact can guide strategy to address global inequalities in child mortality risk. Furthermore, knowledge about how mortality and fertility processes are linked in the context of rural Tanzania in the MDG era (2000-15) can help programs influence the course of population change in this region. In this dissertation, we bridge theory and methods from demography and implementation science to address those objectives. In Chapters 2 and 3, we use data from a cluster-randomized trial of the impact of a community-health worker (CHW) program that was conducted from 2011-15 in rural settings of Tanzania that comprised sentinel areas of the Ifakara and Rufiji Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS). The first paper uses data from a 2011 facility survey that quantified the implementation of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH)-related inputs at the health facility level. We combined weighted-additive methods, principal components analysis and Bayesian mixed effects modelling to reduce these data into three scales of the implementation strength exerted by groups of facilities on communities from which their clients came. We linked these scales to longitudinal data on the survival of children that were born in these communities in 2011 and followed up through 2015. We fit survival time regression models which reported that increases in the strength of MNCH implementation gauged by two scales were associated with child mortality risks that were appreciably lower. We conclude that strong implementation of MNCH services can enhance child survival, and that routine data from facilities can be used to detect small area inequalities in the effectiveness of MNCH coverage and to measure the impacts of health systems strengthening. In Chapter 3, we report on a mixed methods analysis that explains the outcomes of the CHW intervention. Program effects on MNCH service utilization, childhood morbidity and sick childcare seeking were evaluated using difference-in-difference regression analysis with outcomes measured through pre- and post-intervention household surveys in intervention and comparison trial arms. A qualitative process evaluation was conducted from 2012-2014. The CHW program reduced incidence of childhood illness and improved access to timely and appropriate sick childcare; however, there was no effect on MNCH service utilization. The positive outcomes were achieved through mechanisms that triggered high levels of acceptability of CHW among community-members, and motivation and confidence of the CHW. Implementation factors that generated these effects were related to the engagement of communities in program startup; the training, remuneration and configuration of supervision and support to the CHW from the health system and community. Null results were attributed to the fragile health systems context and health systems' limited capacity for strategic change. We conclude that strategies that strengthen and align communities' and health systems core capacities, as well as their ability to learn, adapt and integrate evidence-based interventions, are needed to maximize the MNCH impact of CHW. Our third paper, in Chapter 4, we employ generalized hazard regression analysis to examine the fertility response to child mortality using longitudinal data compiled by the Ifakara and Rufiji HDSS from 2000-2015. The analysis adjusts for individual and contextual covariates, including annual cluster-level child mortality rates. Results show that child mortality accelerates parity progression. Time to conception is most reduced if a child dies during its subsequent birth interval, representing the "replacement" effect of child loss on fertility. Deaths occurring during prior birth intervals were, to a lesser magnitude, associated with accelerated time to conception during future intervals, which is consistent with hypothesized "insurance" effects of anticipating future child loss. Investigation of interactions suggests that contrary to evidence from similar studies and expectations raised by classical demographic theory, insurance effects on fertility tend to be greater, and replacement effects lower, in communities in which child mortality is relatively rare. We conclude that future research should interrogate this finding and generate evidence on ways that programs can optimize women's opportunities and abilities to adapt their fertility intentions, and achieve them, in the context of demographic change in transitional societies, like Tanzania.  
일반주제명  
Public health.
일반주제명  
Demography.
일반주제명  
Health care management.
일반주제명  
Obstetrics.
키워드  
Child survival
키워드  
Demography
키워드  
Implementation science
키워드  
Maternal and child health
키워드  
Tanzania
기타저자  
University of Washington Global Health
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-01B.
기본자료저록  
Dissertation Abstract International
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