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Accelerating the performance of district health systems towards achieving UHC via twinning partnerships.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A twinning partnership is a formal and substantive collaboration between two districts to improve their performance in providing primary healthcare services. The 'win-win' twinning partnership pairs are categorized under relatively high and low-performing districts. The purpose of this formative evaluation is to use the empirically derived systems model as an analytical framework to systematically document the inputs, throughputs and outputs of the twinning partnership strategy. METHODS:This explanatory sequential mixed method study design was conducted from October 2018 to September 2019, in Amhara, Oromia, Southern, Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' (SNNP) and Tigray regions. The quantitative research approach used an observational design which consists of three measurements: at baseline (October 2018), midterm (March 2019) and end-line (September 2019), and the qualitative approach employed a case study. Qualitative data was collected using interviewer-guided semi-structured interview tools. The data were transcribed verbatim, translated from Amharic and Afan Oromo into English and analyzed through a theoretical framework named the Bergen Model of Collaborative Functioning (BMCF). Quantitative data were extracted from routine health management information system. The results are presented as averages, percentages and graphs. To claim statistical significance, non-parametric tests: Friedman test at (p??0.978**), using the Friedman test ?2(2)?=?16.000, p?=?0.001. Post hoc analysis using Wilcoxon signed-rank test was conducted with a Bonferroni correction and the results elicit higher DHSP values from baseline to midterm and from midterm to end-line with significance level set at p?

SUBMITTER: Argaw MD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7507737 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Accelerating the performance of district health systems towards achieving UHC via twinning partnerships.

Argaw Mesele Damte MD Desta Binyam Fekadu BF Kibret Mengistu Asnake MA Abebe Melkamu Getu MG Heyi Wubishet Kebede WK Mamo Elias E Gebru Tesfaye T Gelan Chala C Tefera Bekele Belayhun BB Bele Temesgen Ayehu TA

BMC health services research 20200921 1

<h4>Background</h4>A twinning partnership is a formal and substantive collaboration between two districts to improve their performance in providing primary healthcare services. The 'win-win' twinning partnership pairs are categorized under relatively high and low-performing districts. The purpose of this formative evaluation is to use the empirically derived systems model as an analytical framework to systematically document the inputs, throughputs and outputs of the twinning partnership strateg ...[more]

PMID: 32958061

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