‘The false reporter will get a praise and the one who reported truth will be discouraged’: a qualitative study on intentional data falsification by frontline maternal and newborn healthcare workers in two regions in Ethiopia

• Zelee Hill,
• Abiy Seifu Estifanos,
• Dorka Woldesenbet Keraga,
• Fanny Procureur,
• Rediet Gezahegn,
• Abiyou Kifle

Affiliations

Zelee Hill

Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK

Abiy Seifu Estifanos

School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dorka Woldesenbet Keraga

School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Fanny Procureur

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Rediet Gezahegn

Department of Reproductive, Family and Population Health, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abiyou Kifle

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia