Thesis
Task shifting for maternal healthcare services: a qualitative study of policy and practice in Nigeria’s primary healthcare system
- Alternative title:
- Task shifting for maternal healthcare services in Nigeria’s primary healthcare system
- Abstract:
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Task shifting is the delivery of healthcare services by less specialised healthcare workers due to workforce shortages following requisite training and supervision. It has been used to deliver maternal and other essential healthcare services in Nigeria’s primary healthcare facilities. A decade after the formulation of the first national task-shifting policy, there is limited understanding about the policy’s emergence and evolution, and the influences that have shaped its practice for deliv...
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+ Shaw, S
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- MSD
- Department:
- Primary Care Health Sciences
- Research group:
- Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences (IRIHS)
- Oxford college:
- Green Templeton College
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7014-4793
+ Silman, A
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- MSD
- Department:
- NDORMS
- Oxford college:
- Green Templeton College
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8426-8925
+ Newhouse, N
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- MSD
- Department:
- Primary Care Health Sciences
- Research group:
- Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences (IRIHS)
- Oxford college:
- Kellogg College
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-9002-3588
+ Hughes, G
- Institution:
- University of Leicester
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-1125
+ Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/051x4wh35
- Grant:
- NGCS-2020-822
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2356363
- Local pid:
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pubs:2356363
- Deposit date:
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2025-10-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Ayomoh Francis Ifeanyi
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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