MOMI - Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health: reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in the year after childbirth through combined facility- and community-based interventions

The effectiveness and impact of these intervention packages on the respective health systems as well as on population (maternal and newborn) health outcomes will be studied (year 3 to year 5).
The individual and cross-country analysis of the effectiveness of the postpartum intervention packages will create knowledge on health system options for delivery of postpartum care.
Planned dissemination of these findings will enable us to provide health policy recommendations concerning postpartum health care delivery applicable to other sub-Saharan African countries, or low- and middle- income countries elsewhere (year 5).
Capacity strengthening, and reporting and dissemination of research results will occur throughout the research cycle, with the latter two components a major feature of the final project phase.
Funding agencies
European Commission; EC - DG Research
Team
Els Duysburgh, Emilomo Ogbe
Partners
International Centre for Reproductive Health of the Ghent University; Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina Faso; International Centre for Reproductive Health, Kenya & Mozambique; Parent and Child Initiative of the Kamuzu Central Hospital (PACHI), Malawi; Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique; Medical Faculty of the University of Porto, Portugal; University College of London, United Kingdom.
Period
January 01, 2011 - January 31, 2016
Project status
Project closed
Team members
Countries
Belgium
Burkina Faso
Kenya
Malawi
Mozambique
Portugal
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Themes
Health system research
Mother and child health