IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Uttar Pradesh case study resources

Spicer, N, Gautham, M, Mohan, V, Haldar, K and Wickremasinghe, D. 2015. IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Uttar Pradesh case study resources. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.119.

Spicer, N, Gautham, M, Mohan, V, Haldar, K and Wickremasinghe, D. IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Uttar Pradesh case study resources [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2015. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.119.

Spicer, N, Gautham, M, Mohan, V, Haldar, K and Wickremasinghe, D (2015). IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Uttar Pradesh case study resources. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.119.

Description

The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in Ethiopia, northeast Nigeria and Uttar Pradesh, India. This data collection contains interview field notes and supporting information produced as part of a case study to document and assess the process by which the State Government of Uttar Pradesh introduced and scaled-up mSehat, a mobile phone application used by community health workers (Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)) to create and maintain electronic health records.

Methods

Description of data capture

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 purposively selected key informants who had experience or an understanding of the process by which the Government of Uttar Pradesh introduced mSehat, what helped and hindered the process and any key actions that were needed to catalyse scaling-up the use of mobile phone technology to support ASHAs. These interviews were conducted at three different points during the preparation for tendering, the tendering process and the initial roll out of mSehat. Ten interviews were conducted in December 2014, seven in February and March 2015 and a further eight in December 2015.

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face, Interview: Telephone-delivery

Data Collection Period

From	To
December 2014	2015

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

2015

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
30.0697	84.7046	24.007	76.4868

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Spicer, N, Gautham, M, Mohan, V, Haldar, K and Wickremasinghe, D
Associated roles	Spicer, N (Project Leader), Gautham, M (Regional Co-ordinator), Wickremasinghe, D (Researcher) and Schellenberg, J (Principal Investigator)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Research Centre	IDEAS Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH)
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Sambodhi Research & Communications

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
IDEAS - Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Gates Global Health Grant Number: OPP1017031	UNSPECIFIED