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Proceedings of the 2023 International Maternal Newborn Health Conference
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F1.1. Networks of care for maternal and newborn health: an approach to strengthening relational elements for quality and respectful care
Katherine Kalaris, Allisyn Moran
University of Oxford; World Health Organization
BMC Proceedings 2024, 18(5):F1.1
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Despite global progress in reducing preventable maternal and newborn deaths, high rates of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality continue, mainly due to poor quality of care. Additional transformational and catalytic approaches are needed to provide high-quality respectful patient-centered care to further improve maternal and newborn well-being and survival. One documented successful approach is Networks of Care (NoC).
NoC are an innovative approach to optimize health system functioning, intentionally creating and strengthening health system relationships to support transformational change in maternal and newborn health. NoC emphasize relational elements, such as empowered multidisciplinary teams, respect, teamwork, trust, communication, collaboration, leadership, and supportive supervision and mentorship, which differentiate it from other health systems strengthening approaches. Functional NoC enable collaborative learning and coordinated continuity of respectful and quality care to optimize linkages for efficient and resilient health systems, and to ultimately improve maternal and newborn survival and well-being. Future opportunities include scaling up the NoC approach at national and sub-national levels and addressing gaps in the e Dr TG Percival Spear of Cambridge University divided leadership into five types: (1) natural, (2) charismatic, (3) rational, (4) of consensus, and (5) by force. According to him, the natural leader is selfless; he is, in fact, not interested in leadership. He exerts himself to the best of his ability and with all the sincerity and devotion under the sun without any expectation of reward. Because of his sincerity, he is able to establish a personal bond with his followers. Generally, the cause throws up such a leader—he takes to it like a duck to water. Dr Spear cites Napoleon Bonaparte as an outstanding example of a natural leader; the imprint on the sands of time of this "Child of Destiny" can never be erased. Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq, the indomitable champion of truth and justice, was also an out-and-out natural leader. It is true that he was not fated like Napoleon to eat his heart out in exile, or to bury himself during the closing years of his life in bitter memories of a stirring past. In a sense, Napoleon had been fortunate in his death; he had been spared the torment of brooding over the ruins of his ambition. But Sher-e-Bangla did not fade away gradually. He died, as was proper, in the fullness of his glory. Like Napoleon, he was also a patriot, an idealist, a man of action, a dreamer of dreams. A review of his career reads like a romance: it seems unbelievable that a man so daring, so adventurous, so bold, so reckless of consequences, and yet so intensely practical, should have arisen in this benighted land of ours. Yet, a study of his life will show that "the elements" were: "So mixed in him that Nature might stand up / And say to the world: 'This was a man'!" Like a genuine natural leader, he had always been wedded to his ideals and, in his ardent desire to realise them, he unhesitatingly lighted upon truths that "perish never." He never bothered about creating any effect. He took up a cause if it came naturally Ispahani Colony is one the last remaining places of greenery, serenity, and natural abode in the middle of an increasingly congested, recklessly urbanised, poorly managed, and environmentally hazardous Dhaka city. From honest and efficient government officers to teachers of public universities, from competent bankers to well qualified professionals, the colony had a collection of some of the most well respected and cultured citizens of Dhaka. The inhabitants of the colony have been equally complimented by the owners of the colony i.e. the Ispahani family, who have been as gracious and decent human beings as the people being leased out the houses and apartments within the colony. From the Late Mirza Ahmed Ispahani (popularly known as the Senior Ispahani) to his son the Late Sadri Ispahani to his grandsons – Behrouze, Salman, Sajid, Shakir, and Imran (who is mostly based in the UK), all have represented a face of a business house not so common in Bangladesh. A business family that is well educated, well mannered, accomplished with whom the relationship between the owners and tenants have been more like friends and family as opposed to landlords and lessee. Many of us have spent a significantly large portion of our lives in this pristine location well hidden from the eyes of many who even do not know that such an enclave of tall trees and green fields, meadows and lawns lie in the heart of the city. When the Senior Ispahani and later Sadri Ispahani passed away, it was almost like the ending of two eras; eras which saw the difficulty and challenges faced by the largest industrial and business house of the country in the aftermath of the independence of Bangladesh, when everything was nationalised by the post-liberation government. Those days, jute and tea were the main export commodities of Bangladesh and the Ispahanis were the industry leaders in each field. During those tumultuous years, Senior Ispahani kept his calm, maintained his .Sher-e-Bangla: A natural leader
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