Empirical analysis of socio-economic determinants of maternal health services utilisation in Burundi
Background: Timely and appropriate health care during pregnancy and childbirth are the pillars of better maternal health outcomes. However, factors such as poverty and low education levels, long distances to a health facility, and high costs of health services may present barriers to timely access and utilisation of maternal health services. Despite antenatal care (ANC), […]
Estimated impact of maternal vaccination on global paediatric influenza-related in-hospital mortality: A retrospective case series
Background: Influenza virus infection is an important cause of under-five mortality. Maternal vaccination protects children younger than 3 months of age from influenza infection. However, it is unknown to what extent paediatric influenza-related mortality may be prevented by a maternal vaccine since global age-stratified mortality data are lacking. Methods: We invited clinicians and researchers to […]
The RADAR coverage tool: developing a toolkit for rigorous household surveys for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health & nutrition indicators
Population-based intervention coverage data are used to inform the design of projects, programs, and policies and to evaluate their impact. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), household surveys are the primary source of coverage data. Many coverage surveys are implemented by organizations with limited experience or resources in population-based data collection. We developed a streamlined […]
The impact of adult mortality and parental deaths on primary schooling in north-western Tanzania
Mortality of parents and other adults due to the African AIDS epidemic could reduce children’s primary schooling by reducing households’ ability to pay fees, raising the opportunity cost of children’s time, and leaving orphaned children with guardians who care less about their education than would their parents. This study measures the impact of adult deaths […]
Health care financing in Nigeria: Prospects and challenges
Fifty years after independence, Nigeria is still struggling with the provision of basic health services for its teeming population, now estimated at over 150million. The health care sector is still a labour-intensive handicraft industry, in spite of advances in technology, and health care provision has now become more complicated than in the past. Infant and […]
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Neolithic Life Reconstruction
The expansion of Neolithic stable isotope studies in France now allows distinct regional population-scale food patterns to be linked to both local environment influences and specific economic choices. Carbon and nitrogen isotope values of more than 500 humans and of animal samples also permit hypotheses on sex-biased human provenance. To advance population scale research, we […]
Acceptance of HIV testing for children ages 18 months to 13 years identified through voluntary, home-based HIV counseling and testing in Western Kenya
Background: Home-based voluntary counseling and testing (HCT) presents a novel approach to early diagnosis. We sought to describe uptake of pediatric HIV testing, associated factors, and HIV prevalence among children offered HCT in Kenya. Methods: The USAID-Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare Partnership conducted HCT in western Kenya in 2008. Children 18 months to 13 […]
Chronic Child Poverty and Health Outcomes in South Africa Using a Multidimensional Poverty Measure
In this paper, I examine the differences in health outcomes between children residing in poor and non-poor households. In order to identify household poverty, I make use of the framework of multidimensional poverty as introduced by Alkire and Foster (Journal of Public Economics, 95(7–8), 2011). I follow the poverty status of children (defined as individuals […]
Factors associated with poor maternal health care services utilization in Eswatini: A secondary analysis of a nationally representative household survey
Background: This study investigated the prevalence and factors associated with poor maternal health care services utilization (MHCSU) i.e., having < 4 antenatal care (ANC) visits, not delivering at a health facility, and not receiving institutional postnatal care (PNC). Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the 2014 Eswatini Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey, a […]
Late antenatal care initiation: The case of public health centers in Ethiopia
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the magnitude of late initiation of antenatal care visit and associated factors among antenatal care follow up women in Tselemte district health facilities. The data were obtained at health facilities level in a single survey within 1 month and there is no continuation part of this […]
