Index by author

June 2017 | Volume 5 | Number 2

  1. Acharya, Soumyadipta

    1. Open Access
      Design Improvements for Personal Protective Equipment Used in Ebola and Other Epidemic Outbreaks
      Margaret Glancey, Patience Osei, William Alexander Patterson, Matthew Petney, Laura Scavo, Chandrakant Ruparelia, Soumyadipta Acharya and Youseph Yazdi
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):325-328; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00152

      We redesigned the personal protective equipment ensemble widely used during the 2014 Ebola outbreak into a relatively simpler and more versatile coverall and hood, to improve protection and usability for frontline workers treating patients in infectious disease outbreaks around the world.

  2. Albanese, Rebecca R

    1. Open Access
      Benefits and Limitations of Text Messages to Stimulate Higher Learning Among Community Providers: Participants' Views of an mHealth Intervention to Support Continuing Medical Education in Vietnam
      Lora L Sabin, Anna Larson Williams, Bao Ngoc Le, Augusta R Herman, Ha Viet Nguyen, Rebecca R Albanese, Wenjun Xiong, Hezekiah OA Shobiye, Nafisa Halim, Lien Thi Ngoc Tran, Marion McNabb, Hai Hoang, Ariel Falconer, Tam Thi Thanh Nguyen and Christopher J Gill
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):261-273; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00348

      The original intention was to deliver technical content through brief text messages to stimulate participants to undertake deeper learning. While participants appreciated the convenience and relevance of the text messages, their scores of higher-order knowledge did not improve. The intervention may not have been successful because the messages lacked depth and interactivity, and participants were not explicitly encouraged to seek deeper learning.

  3. Ali Mapatano, Mala

    1. Open Access
      Availability and Quality of Family Planning Services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: High Potential for Improvement
      Dieudonné Mpunga, JP Lumbayi, Nelly Dikamba, Albert Mwembo, Mala Ali Mapatano and Gilbert Wembodinga
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):274-285; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00205

      A few facilities provided good access to and quality of family planning services, particularly urban, private, and higher-level facilities. Yet only one-third offered family planning services at all, and only 20% of these facilities met a basic measure of quality. Condoms, oral contraceptives, and injectables were most available, whereas long-acting, permanent methods, and emergency contraception were least available. Responding to the DRC's high unmet need for family planning calls for substantial expansion of services.

  4. Baqui, Abdullah

    1. Open Access
      Effect on Neonatal Mortality of Newborn Infection Management at Health Posts When Referral Is Not Possible: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Ethiopia
      Tedbabe Degefie Hailegebriel, Brian Mulligan, Simon Cousens, Bereket Mathewos, Steve Wall, Abeba Bekele, Jeanne Russell, Deborah Sitrin, Biruk Tensou, Joy Lawn, Joseph de Graft Johnson, Hailemariam Legesse, Sirak Hailu, Assaye Nigussie, Bogale Worku and Abdullah Baqui
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):202-216; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00312

      Health Extension Workers (HEWs), in general, properly provided antibiotic treatment of possible severe bacterial infections in newborns at the health post level. But only about half of newborns estimated to have infections in the intervention area received treatment by HEWs, and home visits and referrals declined in the final months of the study. Cluster-level analysis suggests a mortality reduction consistent with this level of treatment coverage, although the finding did not reach statistical significance.

  5. Barnhart, Matthew

    1. Open Access
      Long-Acting HIV Treatment and Prevention: Closer to the Threshold
      Matthew Barnhart
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):182-187; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00206

      Substantial progress has been made toward viable, practical long-acting approaches to deliver HIV treatment and prevention through: (1) continued improvements in long-acting antiretrovirals (ARVs); (2) better innovative delivery systems; and (3) collaboration of willing partners to advance new ARVs. More progress on those 3 fronts is still needed to arrive at the goal of optimized HIV treatment and prevention for all who would benefit—and of finally controlling the HIV epidemic.

  6. Bauserman, Melissa

    1. Open Access
      Challenges of Implementing Antenatal Ultrasound Screening in a Rural Study Site: A Case Study From the Democratic Republic of the Congo
      David Swanson, Adrien Lokangaka, Melissa Bauserman, Jonathan Swanson, Robert O Nathan, Antoinette Tshefu, Elizabeth M McClure, Carl L Bose, Ana Garces, Sarah Saleem, Elwyn Chomba, Fabian Esamai and Robert L Goldenberg
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):315-324; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00191

      In the context of a well-resourced research project on obstetric ultrasound, we encountered major challenges, including security and maintenance of the equipment, electricity requirements, health systems integration, and a variety of other systems issues. We propose future ultrasound interventions have at minimum a functioning health system with skilled and motivated staff, access to a referral hospital capable of providing affordable and higher levels of care, and feasible transportation means.

  7. Bekele, Abeba

    1. Open Access
      Effect on Neonatal Mortality of Newborn Infection Management at Health Posts When Referral Is Not Possible: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Ethiopia
      Tedbabe Degefie Hailegebriel, Brian Mulligan, Simon Cousens, Bereket Mathewos, Steve Wall, Abeba Bekele, Jeanne Russell, Deborah Sitrin, Biruk Tensou, Joy Lawn, Joseph de Graft Johnson, Hailemariam Legesse, Sirak Hailu, Assaye Nigussie, Bogale Worku and Abdullah Baqui
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):202-216; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00312

      Health Extension Workers (HEWs), in general, properly provided antibiotic treatment of possible severe bacterial infections in newborns at the health post level. But only about half of newborns estimated to have infections in the intervention area received treatment by HEWs, and home visits and referrals declined in the final months of the study. Cluster-level analysis suggests a mortality reduction consistent with this level of treatment coverage, although the finding did not reach statistical significance.

  8. Bose, Carl L

    1. Open Access
      Challenges of Implementing Antenatal Ultrasound Screening in a Rural Study Site: A Case Study From the Democratic Republic of the Congo
      David Swanson, Adrien Lokangaka, Melissa Bauserman, Jonathan Swanson, Robert O Nathan, Antoinette Tshefu, Elizabeth M McClure, Carl L Bose, Ana Garces, Sarah Saleem, Elwyn Chomba, Fabian Esamai and Robert L Goldenberg
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):315-324; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00191

      In the context of a well-resourced research project on obstetric ultrasound, we encountered major challenges, including security and maintenance of the equipment, electricity requirements, health systems integration, and a variety of other systems issues. We propose future ultrasound interventions have at minimum a functioning health system with skilled and motivated staff, access to a referral hospital capable of providing affordable and higher levels of care, and feasible transportation means.

  9. Bucagu, Maurice

    1. Open Access
      Integrated Person-Centered Health Care for All Women During Pregnancy: Implementing World Health Organization Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience
      Sarah de Masi, Maurice Bucagu, Özge Tunçalp, Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, Theresa Lawrie, Olufemi T Oladapo and Metin Gülmezoglu
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):197-201; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00141

      The 2016 WHO guideline on routine antenatal care (ANC) recommends several health systems interventions to improve quality of care and increase use of services including:

      • Midwife-led continuity of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods

      • Task shifting components of ANC, including promotion of health-related behaviors and distribution of nutrition supplements

      • Recruitment and retention of health workers in rural and remote areas

      • Community mobilization to improve communication and support to pregnant women

      • Women-held case notes

      • A model with a minimum of 8 antenatal care contacts

  10. Burgert-brucker, Clara R

    1. Open Access
      Limited Service Availability, Readiness, and Use of Facility-Based Delivery Care in Haiti: A Study Linking Health Facility Data and Population Data
      Wenjuan Wang, Michelle Winner and Clara R Burgert-Brucker
      Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):244-260; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00311

      Proximity to a health facility offering delivery services and readiness of the facilities to provide such services were poor in both rural and urban areas outside of Port-au-Prince. Availability of a proximate facility was significantly associated with women in rural and urban areas delivering at a facility, as was the quality of delivery care available at the facilities but only in urban areas.

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