Marge Koblinsky, Zoë Matthews, Julia Hussein, Dileep Mavalankar et al.
Because most women prefer professionally provided maternity care when they have access to it, and since the needed clinical interventions are well known, we discuss in their paper what is needed to move forward from apparent global stagnation in provision and use of maternal health care where matern...
Jacqueline Bell, Julia Hussein, Birgit Jentsch, Graham Scotland et al.
BACKGROUND: Increasing the proportion of births with skilled attendance is advocated by international agencies as a key factor in reducing maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. The SAFE Strategy Development Tool is designed to enable policy makers and planners to gather and interpret infor...
Renee Sharma, Michelle F Gaffey, Harold Alderman, Diego G. Bassani et al.
BACKGROUND: Existing health and nutrition services present potential platforms for scaling up delivery of early childhood development (ECD) interventions within sensitive windows across the life course, especially in the first 1000 days from conception to age 2 years. However, there is insufficient ...
Lesley Milne, Graham Scotland, Nargiz Tagiyeva-Milne, Julia Hussein
Debate on the evaluation of safe motherhood programs has mainly focused on the outcome or process measure to be used. Less attention is paid to the application of different approaches to evaluation. This article reviews current theories of evaluation and provides examples of the extent to which thes...
Julia Hussein, Affette McCaw‐Binns, R. Webber
PART I: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT 1. An introduction to maternal and perinatal health 2. The millennium development goals 3. The politics of progress: the story of maternal mortality 4. The epidemiology of maternal mortality 5. The epidemiology of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths PART II: PROGRAME IMP...
Anna Coates, Julia Hussein, Zahidul Quayyum, David Newlands
Objective This paper describes a novel application of a standard econometric technique, the discrete choice experiment (DCE), to investigate decision-making for safe motherhood in developing countries. Rationale Research efforts aimed at identifying effective interventions generate evidence on...