Linking Policy to Practice in Armenia

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Linking Policy to Practice in Armenia
April 29, 2009
Presented by Katie Qutub, Emerging Markets
Group Supported by Gohar Jerbashian and Gohar
Panajyan
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify methods to improve service delivery
  through communications
• Identify communication methods that reach all
  players in the health system patients,
  healthcare workers, policy drivers
• Describe the role of mapping in health planning

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EMERGING MARKETS GROUP

• EMG applies business expertise to improve
  economic, social, and physical infrastructure
  that underpins communities around the world
• 25 years of experience in development consulting
• Over 3500 international staff
• Projects in over 70 Countries

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PROJECT NOVA INNOVATIONS IN SUPPORT OF
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROJECT

• Approach
• Project Objectives
• Desired Results

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METHODS TO IMPROVE SERVICE DELIVERY THROUGH
COMMUNICATIONS

• Job Aids for healthcare providers
• IUD and OC Initiation
• Positions During Labor and Delivery
• Proper Handwashing Techniques
• MCH Health Talk Job Aid Flipchart
• Eligibility Criteria Wheel for Contraceptive Use
• Promoting awareness of the state-guaranteed
  obstetric care

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COMMUNICATION METHODS THAT REACH HEALTHCARE
WORKERS and POLICY DRIVERS

• Peer-reviewed Armenian Journal of Obstetrics,
  Gynecology, and Neonatology
• Policy reviews and reports
• Job descriptions for rural community nurses

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COMMUNICATION METHODS THAT REACH PATIENTS

• 150,000 brochures and posters
• Antenatal Care and Healthy Pregnancy
• Postpartum and Infant Care
• Postabortion Care
• Family Planning
• MCH related basic benefits package
• Fertile Days Calculator
• National Campaign poster and certificate
  promoting free obstetric care

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COMMUNICATION METHODS THAT REACH ALL PLAYERS IN
THE HEALTH SYSTEM

• Materials roll-out consistently paired with a QA
  session with NOVAs medical staff Ask Dr. Gohar
  Initiative
• Armenian-language website

• Monthly newsletters and quarterly success stories

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RESULTS COMMUNICATION METHODS THAT REACH ALL
PLAYERS IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM

• 11 RH/FP/MCH training packages introduced that
  reach Providers and their Clients

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THE ROLE OF MAPPING IN HEALTH PLANNING

• Allows user to input, store, retrieve,
  manipulate, analyze and output geographically
  referenced data
• Supports
• Planning
• Monitoring
• Decision-making
• Can address complex problems

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THE ROLE OF MAPPING IN HEALTH PLANNING

• Map various attributes
• Spatial analysis
• Depict project interventions and key MCH
  variables
• Monitor and evaluate project interventions to
  optimize its strategies
• Make decisions regarding more effective use of
  scarce financial and human resources
• Project NOVA builds domestic capacity to employ
  GIS

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MAPPING ACCESS
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MAPPING HEALTH STATUS
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RESULTS Mapping Interventions
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CONCLUSION

• Practice
• Communications
• GIS
• Policy
• National Primary Healthcare Strategy
• National Rubella and Measles Immunization
  Campaign
• State Free Obstetric Care Initiative

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Thank you!

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