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Madhu Gupta ¹, J Venkatachalam ², Nidhi Goyal ¹, Ravinder Kaur ¹, Sonu Goel ¹, Manmeet Kaur ¹, Arun Kumar Aggarwal ¹, Pavitra Mohan ³

Affiliations
1 School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IN
2 Dept of Community Medicine, PIMS, Pondicherry, IN
3 UNICEF, New Delhi, IN

Abstract

Human resource insufficiency in the resource constraint countries like India insists that the existing human resources are optimally utilized. Supportive supervision is one such strategy to ensure retention of knowledge and skills of existing service providers for optimal implementation of any national health programme. The present study ascertained and documented various models of supportive supervision for implementation of Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) strategy, to reduce under 5 mortality, in terms of its feasibility, sustainability, effectiveness, success and limitation in selected districts of Rajasthan, Orissa and Bihar states in India. The comparison of IMNCI indicators one year after the initiation of supportive supervision had shown that three post natal visits by health workers within 10 days of birth increased by 11.3 %, 20.2% and 37.6% in the districts - Tonk in Rajasthan, Mayurbhanj in Orissa and Vaishali in Bihar, respectively. There was a marked increase in the referral rates for both young infants and sick children in these states. More focused and regular supervisory visits kept health workers motivated and led to better IMNCI indicators in Bihar as compared to Rajasthan and Orissa. Model of supportive supervision involving both internal and external agency was found to be more feasible, sustainable and successful.

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Nidhi Goyal ¹, Reena Srivastava ²

Affiliations
1 BBDU, Lucknow, IN
2 School of Computer Applications, BBDU, Lucknow, IN

Abstract

Changeability has a direct relation to software maintainability and has a major role in providing high quality maintainable and trustworthy software. The concept of Changeability is a major factor when we design and develop software and its constituents. Developing programs and its constituent components with good changeability continually improves and simplifies test operations and maintenance during and after implementation. It encourages and supports improvement in software quality at design stage in the development of software. The research here highlights the importance of changeability broadly and also as an important aspect of software quality.

In this paper a correlation between the major attributes of object oriented design and changeability has been ascertained. A changeability evaluation model using multiple linear regression has been proposed for object oriented design. The validation of the proposed changeability evaluation model is made known by means of experimental tests and the results show that the model is highly significant.

Keywords

Object Oriented Design, Changeability, Maintainability Evaluation, Software Quality, Empirical Validation.

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