L M Richter

Datos Biográficos

ID138739
NOMBREL M Richter
NOMBRESL M
APELLIDORichter
FIRMARICHTER L M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-3654-3192
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS113
TOTAL DE CITAS147
TOTAL COMO AUTOR113
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1989
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H7

  • Global development assistance for early childhood care and education in 134 low- and middle-income countries, 2007–2021

    Open AccessYiqun Luan, Dominic Hodgkin et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often dedicate limited domestic funds to expand quality early childhood care and education (ECCE), making complementary international donor support potentially important. However, research on the allocation of international development assistance for ECCE has been limited. METHODS: We analysed data from the Creditor Reporting System on aid projects to assess global development assistance for …

  • Girls' schooling is important but insufficient to promote equality for boys and girls in childhood and across the life course

    Open AccessCosmas Desmond, Chris Desmond et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Policy Review2024

  • Women’s health and well-being in five birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessFernando Pires Hartwig, Anushka Ataullahjan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Women's health and well-being (WHW) have been receiving growing attention, but limited progress has been made on how to measure its different domains in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We used data from five long-term birth cohorts in Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines and South Africa to explore different domains of adult WHW, and how these domains relate to early life exposures. Methods: Based upon an a priori conceptualis…

  • Marketing of commercial milk formula

    Open AccessNigel Rollins, Ellen Piwoz et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    Despite proven benefits, less than half of infants and young children globally are breastfed in accordance with the recommendations of WHO. In comparison, commercial milk formula (CMF) sales have increased to about US$55 billion annually, with more infants and young children receiving formula products than ever. This Series paper describes the CMF marketing playbook and its influence on families, health professionals, science, and policy processe…

  • Breastfeeding

    Open AccessRafael Pérez-Escamilla, Cecilia Tomori et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    In this Series paper, we examine how mother and baby attributes at the individual level interact with breastfeeding determinants at other levels, how these interactions drive breastfeeding outcomes, and what policies and interventions are necessary to achieve optimal breastfeeding. About one in three neonates in low-income and middle-income countries receive prelacteal feeds, and only one in two neonates are put to the breast within the first hou…

  • Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid

    Open AccessA W Kim, Rihlat Said‐mohamed et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2023

    BACKGROUND: South Africa's rates of psychiatric morbidity are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa and are foregrounded by the country's long history of political violence during apartheid. Growing evidence suggests that in utero stress exposure is a potent developmental risk factor for future mental illness risk, yet the extent to which the psychiatric effects of prenatal stress impact the next generation are unknown. We evaluate the intergen…

  • Infection, nutritional status, and body composition

    Open AccessDouglas J Momberg, Rachel Bell et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2023

    INTRODUCTION: The impact of infection on infant nutritional status, body size, and growth is well documented. However, research into the impact of infection on infant body composition is limited. Greater understanding is, therefore, needed on the effects of infection in early life. METHODS: Associations between a composite morbidity index consisting of the sum of the cumulative tallies for a range of symptoms representing infection and morbidity …

  • Triple Benefit

    Open AccessKathryn Dovel, Pericles Kalande et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

    We conducted a programmatic, observational cohort study with mother-infant pairs (MIPs) enrolled in prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) programs in Malawi to assess the feasibility and potential HIV-related benefits of integrating Early Childhood Development (ECD) services into PMTCT programs. Six health facilities were included in the intervention. We offered ECD counseling from the WHO/UNICEF Care for Child Development package in…

  • Early life determinants of social disparities among young adults

    Open AccessGeorg Loss, Sara Naicker et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023Referencias: 6

    South Africa has achieved major poverty reductions in the post-Apartheid era, but substantial variations in progress between population groups have been documented, and inequalities between poor Black communities and other parts of South Africa persist. Similarly, life chances and inter-generational mobility vary with proximal early life economic environments. The long-term interrelationships of different aspects of these environments are not wel…

  • Early predictors of sensory processing sensitivity in members of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort

    Open AccessAndrew K May, Stephan H Wessels et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2023Referencias: 90

  • The prevalence of probable depression and probable anxiety, and associations with adverse childhood experiences and socio-demographics

    Open AccessAshleigh Craig, Tamsen J Rochat et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objective and methods Mental health problems among adults are a growing public health concern, and middle-income countries such as South Africa are disproportionally affected. Using a large scale nationally representative weighted survey, we assessed the prevalence of probable depression, probable anxiety, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and explored associations between probable depression, probable anxiety, ACEs, socio-economic status…

  • A psychometric evaluation of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale in ethnically and culturally heterogeneous South African samples

    Open AccessAndrew K May, Shane A Norri et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2022

    Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) is a personality trait that describes highly neurosensitive individuals who, for better and for worse, are permeable to their environmental context. Recently, these individuals have been noted for their amenability to positive intervention efforts - an observation that may have important psychosocial value. SPS is currently assessed through the 27-item Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS). However, this instru…

  • Prelacteal feeding and its relationship with exclusive breastfeeding and formula consumption among infants in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessPaulo Augusto Neves, Paulo AR Neves et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Early feeding practices are important determinants of optimal feeding patterns later in life. We aimed to investigate if giving any fluids or foods other than breast milk during the first three days after birth (prelacteal feeds) affects exclusive breastfeeding and consumption of formula among children under six months of age in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from…

  • Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law

    Open AccessSandra Fredman, Georgina Donati et al.ARTICLEHuman Rights Law Review2022

    There is incontrovertible evidence that early learning opportunities shape long-term development and health. Nevertheless, early childhood care and education (ECCE) is not expressly mentioned as part of the right to education in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This paper argues that the right to education c…

  • Subjective social status is associated with happiness but not weight status or psychological distress

    Open AccessJithin Sam Varghese, Rachel Waford et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2022

    Subjective social status showed small but consistent associations with happiness in birth cohorts independent of life-course SEP

  • Rethinking water, sanitation, and hygiene for human growth and development

    Open AccessDouglas J Momberg, Lee E Voth‐Gaeddert et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    Life history theory emphasises plasticity in developmental and biological programming where conditions in early life, lead to long-term consequences for health and wellbeing. Studies linking water, sanitation, and hygiene, nutrition, and child growth and development have emphasised the optimisation of linear growth as a key metric for the evaluation of intervention efficacy. Life history characteristics pertaining to human growth and phenotypic p…

  • The Long-Term Health and Human Capital Consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Birth to Thirty Cohort

    Open AccessSara Naicker, Marilyn N Ahun et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Human capital-that is the cumulative abilities, education, social skills, and mental and physical health one possesses-is increasingly recognized as key to the reduction of inequality in societies. Adverse childhood experiences have been linked to a range of human capital indicators, with the majority of research in high-income, western settings. This study aims to examine the link between adverse childhood experiences and adult human capital in …

  • (Non)Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in South African Parenting Magazines

    Open AccessSara Nieuwoudt, Sara Jewett et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Although exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months is optimal for child health, it remains low globally. Breastmilk substitutes (BMS) marketing undermines breastfeeding. In 2012, South Africa introduced Regulation 991, which prohibits marketing BMS products for infants below 6 months. Our study aimed to explore if and how BMS products were presented in South African parenting magazines post-R991. We applied a mixed-methods cross-sect…

  • The Future of Parenting Programs

    Open AccessPia Rebello Britto, Robert H Bradley et al.ARTICLEParenting2022Citada por: 3Referencias: 5

    SYNOPSISThis article focuses on the demand side of parenting programs, in addition to the traditionally studied supply side and argues that a path to scale of parenting programs must align and equally acknowledge supply and demand side domains and characteristics, whereas historically they are addressed in silos. Evidence suggests that a core set of factors such as policy and contextual affordances and personal characteristics, skills, and motiva…

  • Innovative methods to analyse the impact of gender norms on adolescent health using global health survey data

    Open AccessBen Cislaghi, Anna Margaret Weber et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 39

  • An Opportunity During Antenatal Services to Strengthen Nurturing Care

    Open AccessWiedaad Slemming, Roisin E Drysdale et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Introduction: The Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby study (HPHB) augments a routine service (pregnancy ultrasound) with information about fetal and infant development and the importance of parent wellbeing and infant care, to assess whether it will improve child development and growth, parent-infant attachment, parental wellbeing and routine clinic attendance. This paper outlines the process of intervention development and implementation in a compl…

  • The principles of Nurturing Care promote human capital and mitigate adversities from preconception through adolescence

    Open AccessMaureen M Black, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    A comprehensive evidence-based framework is needed to guide policies and programmes that enable children and adolescents to accrue the human capital required to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper proposes a comprehensive, multisectoral, multilevel life-course conceptualisation of human capital development by building on the Nurturing Care Framework (NCF), originally developed for the foundational period of growth and develo…

  • Global estimates of the implications of Covid-19-related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing

    Open AccessDana Charles Mccoy, Jorge Cuartas et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    Observational data collected prior to the pandemic (between 2004 and 2019) were used to simulate the potential consequences of early childhood care and education (ECCE) service closures on the estimated 167 million preprimary-age children in 196 countries who lost ECCE access between March 2020 and February 2021. COVID-19-related ECCE disruptions were estimated to result in 19.01 billion person-days of ECCE instruction lost, 10.75 million additio…

  • A qualitative study of risks and protective factors against pregnancy among sexually-active adolescents in Soweto, South Africa

    Open AccessE N Bosire, Katharine Chiseri et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2021

    Risky sexual behaviors contribute to increased risk of adolescent pregnancy. This qualitative study sought to understand risks and protective factors against pregnancy amongst sexually-active adolescents in Soweto, South Africa. We used purposive sampling to recruit women at age 24 years from Soweto, who self-reported having sexual debut by age 15 years. Twenty women were recruited: (i) women who did not become pregnant before 18 years (n = 10) a…

  • Double benefit? Integrating an early childhood development programme into HIV PMTCT Option B+ services in Malawi

    Open AccessStephanie Redinger, Evelyn Udedi et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2021

    We investigated the feasibility and acceptability of integrating early childhood development into Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) services in Malawi.We recruited mothers living with HIV in the PMTCT programs who had an infant ≤8 weeks of age. Group ECD sessions were delivered while mothers waited for HIV consultations. Follow up was conducted at 9 months postnatal. A sub-sample of mothers completed in-depth interviews which wer…