Literature code | Publication date | Source/citation | Title | Country | Publication type | WHO building block(s) | Targeted services | Health setting | Main outcome/impact | Strategies adopted by countries & key recommendations/lessons learned |
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SR-1 | Dec 2021 | https://data.unicef.org/resources/continuity-of-essential-health-services-kenya-malawi-mozambique/ | Continuity of essential health services: Study exploring the effect of Covid-19 On Demand for and Utilization of Maternal, New-born & Child Health Services | Kenya | Multi-country cross-sectional study | Service delivery, health workforce & supplies and stock, financing | MNCH & Immunization | Policy, & facility mainly and some aspects of the community | Balancing health emergency response measures with efforts to maintain regular health system function | Data extraction sheet |
SR-2 | Dec 2021 | https://data.unicef.org/resources/continuity-of-essential-health-services-kenya-malawi-mozambique/ | Continuity of essential health services: Study exploring the effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Demand for, and Utilization of, Maternal, New-born and Child Health Services in Mozambique | Mozambique | Multi-country cross-sectional study | Service delivery & health workforce | MNCH | Policy, facility & community | Increase uptake of MNCH services | Data extraction sheet |
SR-3 | Dec 2021 | https://data.unicef.org/resources/continuity-of-essential-health-services-kenya-malawi-mozambique/ | Continuity of essential Health Services study exploring the effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Demand for, and Utilization of, Maternal, New-born, and Child Health Services in Malawi | Malawi | Multi-country cross-sectional study | Service delivery & health workforce | MNCH | Policy & facility level | Uptake of essential MNCH, immunization, and children under 5Â years of age services | Data extraction sheet |
SR-4 | Nov 2021 | Health systems resilience during COVID-19 Lessons for building back better | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia) | Guidance document | Leadership and governance Health financing, health workforce, service delivery | Health system strengthening (resilience) | Â | Support countries in building back better | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-5 | 2021 | Governance Strategies for building health system resilience | Europe (including LMICS in Europe) | Editorial | Leadership and governance | Health system strengthening (resilience) | Policy/system level | Strengthen the governance of our health systems now to ensure better resilience and performance | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-6 | 2021 | Learning from the COVID-19 response to strengthen health security and health systems resilience in the WHO South-East Asia Region | Southeast Asian countries (including LMICS) | Report | All 6 building blocks | Health system strengthening (resilience) and health security | Regional, policy (national), facility & community | Strengthen health security and health systems resilience in the WHO South-East Asia Region | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-7 | 2021 | Roles of community health workers in advancing health security and resilient health systems: emerging lessons from the COVID-19 response in the South-East Asia Region | Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia | Rapid review | Health workforce | Routine outreach services including COVID-19 response | Community level | Advancing health security and resilient health system through CHWs | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-8 | 2020 | Maintaining essential health services during COVID-19: Stories of Resilience and Innovations from 11 states of India | India | Report (stories of resilience) | All 6 building blocks | Routine services of SRMNCAH | Facility and community both | Health system resilience | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-9 | 2022 | https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/363668/9789290234821-eng.pdf?sequence=3 | Essential health care service disruption due to COVID-19: Lessons for Sustainability in Nigeria | Nigeria | Policy briefs | All 6 building blocks | All essential health services | Facility and community both | Sustaining essential health services | Data extraction sheet |
SR-10 | 2022 | BUILD BACK BETTER Role of frontline health workers in managing the COVID-19 pandemic and delivery of essential health services in Assam | India | Report | Service delivery, health workforce, information system | All essential health services | Facility and community both | Sustaining essential health services (building back better) | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-11 | 2021 | COVID-19 and measures to ‘build back better’ essential health services to achieve UHC and the health-related SDGs | Southeast Asia member states including all LMICS | Report/updates (regional committee document) | Service delivery, health workforce, health financing, HMIS | Essential services | All levels (regional, national, facility and community) | Building back better | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-12 | 2021 | Maintaining the provision and use of services for maternal, new-born, child, and adolescent health and older people during the COVID-19 pandemic Lessons learned from 19 countries | Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Bolivia, Brazil, Pakistan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh India, Myanmar, Nepal and Timor-Leste | Report | All except leadership and governance | MNCAH health and ageing health services (MNCAH) | Both | Maintaining service provision | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-13 | 2021 | Impact of Covid-19 On SRMNCAH Services, Regional Strategies, Solutions, and Innovations: A Comprehensive Report: Joint WHO-UNICEF-UNFPA Initiative for SRMNCAH Programme Officers from the ministries of health and UN partners | Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, and DPR Korea | Report | All 6 building blocks | SRMNCAH | Both | Continuing SRMNCAH services | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-14 | 2021 | Containment strategies: lessons from early COVID-19 responses in five African countries | Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Senegal & Nigeria | Report | All 6 building blocks | COVID-19 measures predominately focus on the prevention | System & facility | Containment measures to prevent the spread | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-15 | 2021 | Morocco’s National Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Health Challenges and Lessons Learned | Morocco | Journal article | All 6 | COVID-19 measures | System & facility | N/A | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-16 | 2021 | African National Public Health Institutes Responses to COVID-19: Innovations, Systems Changes, and Challenges | South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia & Mozambique) | Journal article | All 6 | COVID-19 measures predominately | System, facility & community | Not mentioned | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-17 | May 2022 | Barriers and facilitators of access to maternal, new-born and child health services during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria: findings from a qualitative study | Nigeria | Journal article | Service delivery | MNCH | Facility | Continuation of essential services such as MNCH and immunization services during COVID-19 | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-18 | May 2022 | Actions and Adaptations Implemented for Maternal, New-born, and Child Health Service Provision During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Lagos, Nigeria: Qualitative Study of Health Facility Leaders | Nigeria | Journal article | Service delivery | MNCH | Facility | Optimizing health service provision during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-19 | Dec 2022 | Understanding changes made to reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health services in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study | Pakistan | Journal article | Service delivery | RMNCHN | District headquarters, rural health centres or basic health units | Prevention of delayed or forgone care during a pandemic | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-20 | Mar, 2022 | Keeping essential reproductive, maternal, and child health services available during COVID-19 in Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zimbabwe: analysis of early-pandemic policy guidelines | Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zimbabwe | Policy guidelines | Service delivery, health workforce | RMNCH | Facility and outreach | To reduce potential impacts to populations related to RMNCH service delivery during COVID-19 | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-21 | Aug 2022 | Adapting High Impact Practices in Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe | Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe | Article | Service delivery, demand creation and enabling environment | Family planning | Facility and outreach | Adapting high impact practices during COVID-19 | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-22 | Jul-19 | COVID-19 in Ghana: challenges and countermeasures for maternal health service delivery in public Health facilities | Ghana | Situational update | Service delivery | MHC | Public health facilities | To mitigate the downward trend in maternal health indicators in the region. To mitigate the impact of COVID-19 restrictions | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-23 | Jan-22 | Disruptions in maternal health service use during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: experiences from 37 health facilities in low-income and middle-income countries | Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Sierra Leone | Review | Service delivery | Maternal health | Facility | To prevent a decrease in the use of maternal health services in all countries included in the study except Malawi during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-24 | 2020 | Innovation in Primary health care responses to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa | Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe | Qualitative descriptive study | Health workforce and service delivery | MCH, HIV, TB and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) | Facility | Innovations/actions ensure maintaining essential primary care services and preventing excess mortality from neglect of other conditions especially NCDs (diabetes, hypertension), HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-25 | Jan-23 | Maintaining essential health services during the pandemic in Bangladesh: the role of primary health care supported by routine health information system | Bangladesh | Report | Unspecified | All essential health services | Facility | Mitigate and build resilient PHC facilities in Bangladesh | Data extraction sheet | |
SR-26 | Feb 2021 | https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/351477/SEAJPH2021V10S1P26-eng.pdf?sequence=1 | Emerging good practices and lessons learned to maintain essential health services during the COVID-19 Pandemic | South-East Asian Countries | Report | All 6 building blocks | All essential health services | Facility | To overcome the disruption of essential health services in the South-East Asia Region | Data extraction sheet |