Alex Ezeh

Datos Biográficos

ID2191133
NOMBREAlex Ezeh
NOMBRESAlex
APELLIDOEzeh
FIRMAEZEH A
AFILIACIONESAfrican Population and Health Research Center
ORCID0000-0002-1309-4697
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS81
TOTAL DE CITAS391
TOTAL COMO AUTOR81
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1993
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H11

  • Sexual Relationship Typologies, Multilevel Determinants, and HIV Among Adolescent Mothers in Eastern and Southern Africa

    Open AccessLuwam T Gebrekristos, Allison K Groves et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    In Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), there is heterogeneity within adolescent mothers' (AMs') sexual relationships. However, existing studies focus on single relationship characteristics, even though these characteristics do not operate in isolation. Moreover, no studies have examined multilevel predictors of AMs' relationships. Identifying and characterizing typologies by multilevel factors can inform targeted interventions to lower HIV risk. D…

  • Association Between Household Deprivation and Living in Informal Settlements and Incidence of Diarrhea in Children Under 5 in Eleven Latin American Cities

    Open AccessVictoria Alpaugh, Ana Ortigoza et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024Referencias: 1

    Diarrhea is a leading cause of death in children globally, mostly due to inadequate sanitary conditions and overcrowding. Poor housing quality and lack of tenure security that characterize informal settlements are key underlying contributors to these risk factors for childhood diarrhea deaths. The objective of this study is to better understand the physical attributes of informal settlement households in Latin American cities that are associated …

  • Health Transitions and the Rise of Modern Contraceptive Prevalence

    Open AccessJamaica Corker, Ann Biddlecom et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 62

    Improvements in health and mortality, known as the health transition, played important roles in the rise of modern contraceptive prevalence across countries. We describe key mechanisms and selected research evidence that show how health transitions helped shape contraceptive transitions around the world. Mechanisms include how decreases in child mortality rates affect the motivation to use contraception and how the organization and expansion of h…

  • The Lancet Nigeria Commission

    Open AccessIbrahim Abubakar, Sarah L Dalglish et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

    Health is central to the development of any country. Nigeria’s gross domestic product is the largest in Africa, but its per capita income of about ₦770 000 (US$2000) is low with a highly inequitable distribution of income, wealth, and therefore, health. It is a picture of poverty amidst plenty. Nigeria is both a wealthy country and a very poor one. About 40% of Nigerians live in poverty, in social conditions that create ill health, and with the e…

  • Contraceptive Use in Urban Africa

    Open AccessAlex Ezeh, Maurice Anyawie et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2022Referencias: 15

    Previous studies have documented significant differences in health and reproductive health outcomes between the poor and nonpoor across various countries in sub‐Saharan Africa. However, a number of these studies is dated, and the past decade has witnessed significant shifts in health and reproductive health outcomes in many African countries. Using recent data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, this paper updates and extends the literature …

  • Acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to improve agency among African district health managers

    Open AccessSharon Fonn, Sunanda Ray et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2021

    District health managers (DHMs) lead and manage Ministry of Health programmes and system performance. We report on the acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to increase the agency of DHMs in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda using a cross-sectional rapid appraisal with 372 DHMs employing structured questionnaires. We found differences and similarities between the countries, in particular, who becomes a DHM. The opportuni…

  • Sarki et al. Respond

    Ahmed M Sarki, Alex Ezeh et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2021

    Sarki et al. Respond Ahmed M. SarkiPhD, MPH, Alex EzehPhD, and Saverio StrangesMD, PhD, MPH, FAHA Affiliation Ahmed M. Sarki is with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Family and Youth Health Initiative, Jigawa State, Nigeria. Alex Ezeh is with the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, and the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, So…

  • Quantifying the cost of in-kind contributions to a multidonor-funded health research capacity-building programme

    Open AccessSharon Fonn, Jia Hu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: There are significant investments in health research capacity development in the 'global-south'. The monetary value of contributions from institutions running these programmes is not known. METHODS: Using the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) as a case study we estimate in-kind contributions made by consortium members. We measured unpaid hours of labour contributed by consortium members and converted this t…

  • Uganda as a Role Model for Pandemic Containment in Africa

    Ahmed M Sarki, Alex Ezeh et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020Citada por: 4Referencias: 1

  • Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program

    Open AccessAnne M Khisa, Peter Ngure et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Doctoral training has increasingly become the requirement for faculty in institutions of higher learning in Africa. Africa, however, still lacks sufficient capacity to conduct research, with just 1.4% of all published research authored by African researchers. Similarly, women in Sub-Saharan Africa only constitute 30% of the continent's researchers, and correspondingly publish little research. Challenging these gendered inequities requires a gende…

  • Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums

    Open AccessRichard Lilford, Richard J Lilford et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

  • The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums

    Open AccessAlex Ezeh, Oyinlola Oyebode et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

  • Effectiveness of home-based nutritional counselling and support on exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi

    Open AccessElizabeth W Kimani-Murage, Elizabeth Kimani‐Murage et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) improves infant health and survival. We tested the effectiveness of a home-based intervention using Community Health Workers (CHWs) on EBF for six months in urban poor settings in Kenya. METHODS: We conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Korogocho and Viwandani slums in Nairobi. We recruited pregnant women and followed them until the infant's first birthday. Fourteen community clusters were ra…

  • Differential effects of dietary diversity and maternal characteristics on linear growth of children aged 6–59 months in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessDickson A Amugsi, Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective To investigate the differential effects of dietary diversity (DD) and maternal characteristics on child linear growth at different points of the conditional distribution of height-for-age Z -score (HAZ) in sub-Saharan Africa. Design Secondary analysis of data from nationally representative cross-sectional samples of singleton children aged 0–59 months, born to mothers aged 15–49 years. The outcome variable was child HAZ. Quantile regres…

  • Evaluating a complex research capacity-building intervention

    Open AccessSonja Marjanovic, Gavin Cochrane et al.ARTICLEEvaluation2017Citada por: 5Referencias: 5

    There is increasing policy demand for real-time evaluations of research and capacity-building programmes reflecting a recognition of the management, governance and impact gains that can result. However, the evidence base on how to successfully implement real-time evaluations of complex interventions in international development efforts is scarce. There is therefore a need for reflective work that considers methodologies in context. This article s…

  • Changes in Use of Family Planning among the Urban Poor

    Open AccessDonatien Beguy, Alex Ezeh et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2017Citada por: 3Referencias: 24

    As urbanization continues unabated in Kenya, the wellbeing of the urban poor - whose majority live in slum settlements - will increasingly drive national development indicators including Vision 2030, SDGs and FP2020 goals. It is therefore central to understand and identify ways to address the poor reproductive health outcomes among poor urban slum populations in the country. Taking advantage of APHRC's NCSS surveys conducted in 2000 and 2012 amon…

  • The Influence of Religion and Ethnicity on Family Planning Approval

    Open AccessPauline Bakibinga, Namuunda Mutombo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2016

  • Health and health-related indicators in slum, rural, and urban communities

    Open AccessBlessing U Mberu, Blessing Mberu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: It is generally assumed that urban slum residents have worse health status when compared with other urban populations, but better health status than their rural counterparts. This belief/assumption is often because of their physical proximity and assumed better access to health care services in urban areas. However, a few recent studies have cast doubt on this belief. Whether slum dwellers are better off, similar to, or worse off as c…

  • Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi

    Open AccessSteven van de Vijver, Samuel Oti et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: A combination of increasing urbanization, behaviour change, and lack of health services in slums put the urban poor specifically at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community-based CVD prevention intervention on blood pressure (BP) and other CVD risk factors in a slum setting in Nairobi, Kenya. DESIGN: Prospective intervention study includes awareness campaigns, household visits for sc…

  • Building the capacity to solve complex health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessSharon Fonn, Omar Egesah et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2016Referencias: 18

  • Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch

    Open AccessSarah Whitmee, Anna Haines et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015

  • Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile

    Donatien Beguy, Patricia Elungata et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2015

    The Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) was the first urban-based longitudinal health and demographic surveillance platform in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The NUHDSS was established in 2002 to provide a platform to investigate the long-term social, economic and health consequences of urban residence, and to serve as a primary research tool for intervention and impact evaluation studies focusing on the needs of the urba…

  • Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By re…

  • HIV/Aids-related mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an opportunity to assess the mortality burden of the pandemic from individual data. OBJECTIVE: To present standardised comparisons of HIV/AIDS-related m…

  • Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Nurul Alam et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate, population-based information characterising the issues and informing solutions. Population surveillance sites, such as those operated within the INDEPTH Network, have the potential to contribute to bridging the information gaps. OBJECTIVE: To describe pat…