Presenters Discuss: how conceptualizing health systems as complex adaptive systems changes evaluation strategies; how components of health systems at various levels interact to produce population health outcomes (Ghana); innovative approaches for accelerating and measuring progress toward MDGs 4 & 5 and an understanding of the Improvement Collaborative model for strengthening maternal newborn health services at scale in a West African setting (Niger, West Africa); and the potential for Improvement Collaborative Networks to accelerate peer to peer learning and large scale improvement, how process improvements can be simplified, ranked and packaged for scale up to achieve higher coverage, quality and reliability of implementation of health interventions and how time series analysis can be applied to diverse change ideas tested across multiple health facilities and communities to yield a robust context specific change package (Ghana).
