‘Scaling-up is a craft not a science’: Catalysing scale-up of health innovations in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-38

  Spicer, Neil ^a   Bhattacharya, Dipankar ^b   Dimka, Ritgak ^c   Fanta, Feleke ^d   Mangham Jefferies, Lindsay ^a   Schellenberg, Joanna ^a   Tamire Woldemariam, Addis ^d,e   Walt, Gill ^a   Wickremasinghe, Deepthi ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Sambodhi Research and Communications   (India)

^c Health Hub Ltd   (Nigeria)

^d Jarco Consulting   (Ethiopia)

^e FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Innovations; Maternal and newborn health; Northeast Nigeria; Scale up; Uttar Pradesh, India

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; AID POLICY; DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT AID; HEALTH CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; INNOVATION; MATERNAL HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY; DECISION MAKING; ETHIOPIA; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; MATERNAL WELFARE; NIGERIA; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCALE UP OF HEALTH INNOVATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

ETHIOPIA; INDIA; NIGERIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; NIGERIA; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84908032558     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.046     Document Type: Article

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