Aleksandra Jakubowski

Datos Biográficos

ID3838110
NOMBREAleksandra Jakubowski
NOMBRESAleksandra
APELLIDOJakubowski
FIRMAJAKUBOWSKI A
AFILIACIONESNortheastern University
ORCID0000-0001-7698-1392
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Teenage mothers report poor health and economic functioning in Western Kenya

    Open AccessAleksandra Jakubowski, Elizabeth Nakiyingi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Teenage pregnancy remains a critical issue in Kenya, with 15% of girls aged 15–19 having been pregnant. Counties in western Kenya experience high teenage pregnancy rates (22–30%) along with high HIV prevalence and widespread poverty. Long-term consequences of teenage pregnancy have been documented in high-income countries, but evidence from the Global South is lacking. Here, we examined the association between teenage pregnancy and adult socio-ec…

  • It takes a village

    Open AccessAleksandra Jakubowski, Raymond A Aborigo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Maternal mortality remains a challenge in Ghana, where 263 women per 100 000 live births die during pregnancy or childbirth. Barriers to reaching the recommended antenatal care (ANC) include poor access to quality health care, cultural factors, and lack of support for pregnant women. Methods: We piloted two cross-randomized interventions: durbars, or local community meetings that incorporated education about ANC and supporting pregnan…

  • Impact of Health Aid Investments on Public Opinion of the United States

    Aleksandra Jakubowski, Don Mai et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2019Referencias: 14

    Objectives. To assess whether increasing health aid investments affected public opinion of the United States in recipient populations. Methods. We linked health aid data from the United States to nationally representative opinion poll surveys from 45 countries conducted between 2002 and 2016. We exploited the abrupt and substantial increase in health aid when the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and President’s Malaria Initi…

  • Expectations about future health and longevity in Kenyan and Ugandan communities receiving a universal test-and-treat intervention in the SEARCH trial

    Open AccessHarsha Thirumurthy, Aleksandra Jakubowski et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2016

    Expectations about future health and longevity are important determinants of individuals' decisions to invest in physical and human capital. Few population-level studies have measured subjective expectations and examined how they are affected by scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART). We assessed these expectations in communities receiving annual HIV testing and universal ART. Longitudinal data on expectations were collected at baseline and one…

  • Association Between HIV Programs and Quality of Maternal Health Inputs and Processes in Kenya

    Margaret E Kruk, Aleksandra Jakubowski et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015Referencias: 19

    We assessed whether quality of maternal and newborn health services is influenced by presence of HIV programs at Kenyan health facilities using data from a national facility survey. Facilities that provided services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission had better prenatal and postnatal care inputs, such as infrastructure and supplies, and those providing antiretroviral therapy had better quality of prenatal and postnatal care processes. HI…

  • Low risk of attrition among adults on antiretroviral therapy in the Rwandan national program

    Open AccessHarriet Nuwagaba‐Biribonwoha, Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Attrition was low in the Rwandan national program. The above patient and facility correlates of attrition can be the focus of interventions to sustain high retention

  • The Health of Immigrants to New York City From Mainland China

    Peter Muennig, Yue Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant & Refugee…2012Referencias: 14

    Very little is known about the newest New Yorkers of Chinese heritage, the largest and fastest growing immigrant group in the city. This article compares measures of the health of immigrants to New York from Mainland China to the health of other New Yorkers of Asian heritage along with all other New Yorkers. We did so using the 1,999 subjects in the 2004 New York Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, controlling for age and gender. We found th…