DEVELOPING EQUITY-FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IN NIGERIA: AN EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS FOR POLICY, BASED ON EQUITABLE IMPACT SENSITIVE TOOL (EQUIST)

INTRODUCTION: Among the most critical health systems components that requires strengthening to improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes in Nigeria is the concept of equity.UNICEF has designed the Equitable Impact Sensitive Tool (EQUIST) to enable policymakers improve equity in MNCH and reduce disparities between the most marginali

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments globally to impose lockdown measures and mobility restrictions to curb the transmission of the virus.As economies slowly reopen, governments face a trade-off between implementing economic recovery and health policy measures to control the spread of the virus and to ensure it will not overwhelm the h

Pictures of faces with emotional expressions presented before a temporal attention task have been reported to affect temporal attention in an awareness-dependent manner: Awareness of a fearful face was linked to an increased deficit in the temporal attention task, while preventing the face from reaching awareness was linked to a decreased deficit,