Table 9.
Top 10 cross-cutting MNCH SBCE research priorities
| Rank | Cross-cutting MNCH research priority |
|---|---|
| 1 | Improve the delivery of SBCE approaches to achieve universal health coverage of MNCH services for the most vulnerable populations |
| 2 | Understand the determinants of optimal uptake of maternal, newborn and child self-care and family care practices, and optimal care-seeking behaviour |
| 3 | Understand the determinants of health-worker behaviours and performance (including facility- and community-based health workers) that affect acceptability and utilisation of MNCH services and improve the delivery of approaches to address these determinants |
| 4 | Improve the delivery of approaches that address social norms (particularly gender norms) that cause delays in accessing appropriate MNCH care |
| 5 | Understand the determinants of optimal uptake of life-saving and other critical commodities for MNCH |
| 6 | Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to scale up community mobilisation and engagement and to integrate them into healthcare services and other government systems for MNCH |
| 7 | Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to enable effective learning, including peer-to-peer learning, engagement and empowerment of women, families and communities to foster behaviour change, health literacy and agency to improve MNCH |
| 8 | Improve the delivery of approaches to strengthen the integration of SBCE interventions into other services delivered by community health workers and community-based organisations to foster increased use of health services and improved MNCH |
| 9 | Find new approaches to measure emerging SBCE priorities (i.e. social inclusion, vulnerability, multi-sectorality and integration, and community capacity) to inform planning, programming and priority setting for MNCH |
| 10 | Understand the determinants and find new SBCE approaches to address women’s, newborns’ and children’s vulnerability to violence and injury |
MNCH maternal, newborn and child health, SBCE social, behavioural and community engagement