Nurse Mentors to Advance Quality Improvement in Primary Health Centers: Lessons From a Pilot Program in Northern Karnataka, India.

High-quality care during labor, delivery, and the postpartum period is critically important since maternal and child morbidity and mortality are linked to complications that arise during these stages. A nurse mentoring program was implemented in northern Karnataka, India, to improve quality of services at primary health centers (PHCs), the lowest level in the public health system that offers basic obstetric care. The intervention, conducted between August 2012 and July 2014, employed 53 full-time nurse mentors and was scaled-up in 385 PHCs in 8 poor rural districts.

Performance of accredited social health activists to provide home-based newborn care: a situational analysis.

Objective: To assess Accredited social health activists' (ASHAs) ability to recognize illness in infants aged less than 2 months.

Methods: Investigators observed 25 ASHAs conducting 47 visits.

Results: ASHA-investigator agreement on the need to further assess infants was intermediate (kappa 0.

Reconceptualizing feeding and feeding disorders in interpersonal context: the case for a relational disorder.

The feeding of young children is fundamentally a relational and multisystemic process. Successful treatment of clinically significant feeding problems involves careful assessment of the full range of influences on the feeding relationship and integrated treatment approaches. However, current diagnostic approaches to feeding disorders tend to be reductionistic, exclusively focused on the child as an individual, and overly concerned with exclusionary criteria.