Deborah L Billings
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 233404 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Deborah L Billings |
| NOMBRES | Deborah L |
| APELLIDO | Billings |
| FIRMA | BILLINGS D L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8204-9822 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Group Antenatal Care Model as an innovative and sustainable maternal and child health service delivery in a Northern Nigerian State
The maternal and child health situation in developing countries remains critical and deeply concerning, These regions account for 99% of global maternal and under-five deaths. In Nigeria, uptake of critical life-saving maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) services, delivered through antenatal care (ANC), are sub-optimal, leading to poor outcomes. Group antenatal care (G-ANC) is an evolving antenatal care delivery model in low and medium-inc…
Belonging
Health care systems are social institutions simulating microcosms of wider societies where unequal distribution of power and resources translate into inequities in health outcomes, experiences and access to services. Growing research on participatory women’s groups positively highlights the influence of group-based care on health and wellbeing for women, their infants, families and wider communities across different countries. With similarities i…
Courtesy Stigma and HIV Professionals
The impact of HIV-related stigma on social workers, clinicians, counselors, and advocates working in organizations serving people living with HIV (PLWH), is rarely considered. Professionals experience "courtesy stigma" when working with or on behalf of PLWH, regardless of their personal HIV status. PubMed, Medline, and PsycInfo databases, along with a review of relevant reference lists and referrals, identified 13 studies addressing this phenomen…
Working Against Gender-Based Violence in the American South
Non-profit organizations that address gender-based violence must create diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces for advocates so that they can adequately serve diverse survivors. Despite recent efforts, differential treatment and high turnover among minority advocates continue. Further strategies to eliminate discriminative organizational practices are needed. We interviewed 25 advocates employed by non-profit organizations in a Southeastern…
Impacts of the Covid‐19 pandemic on the productivity of academics who mother
The aim of the study is to document how academics who mother have reorganized work and childcare since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States, how those shifts have affected their academic productivity, and solutions proposed by academics living these experiences. We collected data via an online survey and, subsequently, by conducting qualitative interviews with a subsample of participants. From June to August 2…
Men’s Vasectomy Knowledge, Attitudes, and Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Southern United States
Vasectomy is one of the few options men have to manage their reproductive capacity and take on a more equitable role in pregnancy prevention. While the method is underused throughout the United States, the southern states have a lower prevalence rate compared to the rest of the country. Existing survey research does not assess what men know or think about the procedure as a means of understanding why this is the case. We created and conducted an …
Core strategies, social processes, and contextual influences of early phases of implementation and statewide scale-up of group prenatal care in South Carolina
Evaluating the Whoops Proof S.C. Campaign
The Closer, the Better
Women’s post-rape experiences with Guatemalan health services
We conducted a qualitative study to examine the critical pathways of 23 women survivors of sexual assault who navigated health care-based services in six states in Guatemala. We also captured the components of quality health care that were important to them, including the experience of the waiting room, being able to make active decisions, providing informed consent, and receiving emotional support. Our results from the in-depth, semi-structured …
Concordance and Discordance of the Knowledge, Understanding, and Description of Children's Experience of Food Insecurity Among Hispanic Adults and Children
Food insecurity is highly detrimental for children, who experience food insecurity differently than do adults. We aimed to understand concordance and discordance of adults' and children's knowledge, understanding, and description of children's experience of food insecurity. In-depth interviews were conducted with the primary caregiver, another caregiver, and a child 9 to 16 years of age in 16 Hispanic families at risk of food insecurity in South …
Increasing men’s involvement in responsible parenthood
Since the ratification of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD PoA), the importance of promoting men’s participation in childcare has been recognized as an international priority. This study documents national policy efforts undertaken during the ICPD PoA timeframe to increase men’s participation in childcare in Croatia, India, and Mexico. Results of our policy analysis suggest that although between…
Meanings of fatherhood in urban Tajikistan
Conceptualizations of Postpartum Depression by Public-Sector Health Care Providers in Mexico
In this article we describe the knowledge frameworks that 61 physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists from five public-sector health care facilities in Mexico used to conceptualize postpartum depression. We also demonstrate how providers applied social and behavioral antecedents in their conceptualizations of postpartum depression. Using grounded theory, we identify two frameworks that providers used to conceptualize postpartum depre…
Are movies with tobacco, alcohol, drugs, sex, and violence rated for youth? A comparison of rating systems in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States
Barriers to abortion facing Mexican immigrants in North Carolina
Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women
The purpose of this research is to explore the negotiation strategies of college women as they interpret ambiguous rape scenarios. In focus groups, 1st- and 4th-year college women were presented with a series of three vignettes depicting incidents that meet the legal criteria for rape yet are ambiguous due to the presence of cultural rape myths, contexts involving alcohol consumption, varying degrees of consent, and a known perpetrator. These con…
An assessment of health sector guidelines and services for treatment of sexual violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
In Central America, approximately 12% of women report ever having been forced to have sex by an intimate male partner, and sexual violence by others is also a frequent experience. All Central American countries are signatories to human rights agreements that oblige States to ensure access to comprehensive health services for victims of sexual violence, but there is limited information as to whether these agreements have been translated into polic…
Health Care-Based Interventions for Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence
Thirty publications that evaluated health care-based interventions for women who experienced sexual violence were reviewed. The findings highlight that clinicians often need training in the provision sexual assault care, and that not all emergency departments have sexual assault care protocols. Studies examining effectiveness found that Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programs are very helpful, that health care-based sexual assault treatment settin…
Violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas en la Ciudad de México
OBJETIVO: Analisar los factores relacionados a la violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas. MÉTODOS: Se recolectó la información de 383 mujeres derechohabientes del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social que acudieron a control prenatal en cinco Unidades de Medicina Familiar en la Ciudad de México entre septiembre del 2003 y agosto del 2004. Ellas respondieran a un cuestionario de violencia elaborado específicamente para el estudio. RESULTADOS: D…
Scaling-up a public health innovation
Woman-Centered Post-Abortion Care in Public Hospitals in Tucuman, Argentina
Unsafe abortion is a major public health and human rights problem in Argentina. Implementation of a woman-centered post-abortion care (PAC) model is one strategy to improve the situation. The quality of PAC services was measured in three public hospitals in Tucumán, a province with high levels of poverty and maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion. Overall, the quality of PAC services was found to be poor. Women do not receive services in a man…
Postabortion care in Latin America
Unsafe abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality and morbidity in Latin America. Postabortion care (PAC) using preferred technologies and a woman-centred approach to treat the complications of unsafe abortion can save women's lives and improve their reproductive health, as well as reduce costs to health systems. This article reviews results from 10 major PAC operations research projects conducted in public sector hospitals in seven…
Reaching Women with Instructions on Misoprostol Use in a Latin American Country
In Latin America, where restrictive laws limit women's access to safe abortion services, misoprostol is being used to induce abortions, often without correct information on dosage or regimens. This study in an unnamed Latin American country aimed to identify appropriate channels through which instructions on misoprostol use could be disseminated to women. In-depth interviews were carried out with physicians, pharmacy staff, women who had had safe…
Women's Perspectives on Medical Abortion in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
In Latin America, where abortion is almost universally legally restricted, medical abortion, especially with misoprostol alone, is increasingly being used, often with the tablets obtained from a pharmacy. We carried out in-depth interviews with 49 women who had had a medical abortion under clinical supervision in rural and urban settings in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, who were recruited through clinicians providing abortions. The women of…
Culture and Poverty in Appalachia
The prevalent explanation for persistence of in Appalachia stresses region's traditional culture which ill equips its population for participation in modern world. This research casts doubt on cultural explanation. A scale of orientation was produced from secondary analysis of data gathered from several thousand respondents in North Carolina. Attitudinal differences bet ,een respondents from Appalachian subregion of that state and from other regi…
Impacts of the Covid‐19 pandemic on the productivity of academics who mother
The aim of the study is to document how academics who mother have reorganized work and childcare since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States, how those shifts have affected their academic productivity, and solutions proposed by academics living these experiences. We collected data via an online survey and, subsequently, by conducting qualitative interviews with a subsample of participants. From June to August 2…
Postabortion care in Latin America
Unsafe abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality and morbidity in Latin America. Postabortion care (PAC) using preferred technologies and a woman-centred approach to treat the complications of unsafe abortion can save women's lives and improve their reproductive health, as well as reduce costs to health systems. This article reviews results from 10 major PAC operations research projects conducted in public sector hospitals in seven…
Women's Perspectives on Medical Abortion in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
In Latin America, where abortion is almost universally legally restricted, medical abortion, especially with misoprostol alone, is increasingly being used, often with the tablets obtained from a pharmacy. We carried out in-depth interviews with 49 women who had had a medical abortion under clinical supervision in rural and urban settings in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, who were recruited through clinicians providing abortions. The women of…
Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women
The purpose of this research is to explore the negotiation strategies of college women as they interpret ambiguous rape scenarios. In focus groups, 1st- and 4th-year college women were presented with a series of three vignettes depicting incidents that meet the legal criteria for rape yet are ambiguous due to the presence of cultural rape myths, contexts involving alcohol consumption, varying degrees of consent, and a known perpetrator. These con…
Creating Linkages Between Incomplete Abortion Treatment and Family Planning Services in Kenya
Postabortion care has received increasing emphasis as an important intervention to address part of the problem of unsafe abortion. Although a good deal of attention has been paid to improving emergency treatment of abortion complications, the other elements of postabortion care, including providing postabortion family planning services, have received less attention and are rarely found in health‐care settings around the world. This report describ…
Scaling-up a public health innovation
Constructing Access to Legal Abortion Services in Mexico City
For the last three decades, government and health institutions have recognised that unsafe abortion is an important social and public health problem in Mexico. Although the Penal Code in every state defines at least one situation in which abortion is legal, access to legal abortion services is restricted for women throughout Mexico. In August 2000, the Mexico City Legislative Assembly reformed the Penal Code to include a wider range of grounds on…
Attitudes towards abortion among medical trainees in Mexico City public hospitals
During the past decade, there has been considerable discussion in Mexico about abortion, and some progress has been made in improving legislation in line with agreements made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. The attitude of physicians toward abortion is a topic of interest throughout the world. In particular, this due to the fact that in many places physicians play the role of gatekeeper,…
Reaching Women with Instructions on Misoprostol Use in a Latin American Country
In Latin America, where restrictive laws limit women's access to safe abortion services, misoprostol is being used to induce abortions, often without correct information on dosage or regimens. This study in an unnamed Latin American country aimed to identify appropriate channels through which instructions on misoprostol use could be disseminated to women. In-depth interviews were carried out with physicians, pharmacy staff, women who had had safe…
Misoprostol Alone for Early Medical Abortion in a Latin American Clinic Setting
Misoprostol is being used widely by women throughout Latin America, often based on instructions passed along through friends, acquaintances or professionals who may have little information about safe and effective use. This paper presents the experience of a Latin American clinic working in a legally restrictive setting that offers misoprostol as one option to women seeking early pregnancy termination. Between February 2001 and June 2002, 3225 wo…
Violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas en la Ciudad de México
OBJETIVO: Analisar los factores relacionados a la violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas. MÉTODOS: Se recolectó la información de 383 mujeres derechohabientes del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social que acudieron a control prenatal en cinco Unidades de Medicina Familiar en la Ciudad de México entre septiembre del 2003 y agosto del 2004. Ellas respondieran a un cuestionario de violencia elaborado específicamente para el estudio. RESULTADOS: D…
Barriers to abortion facing Mexican immigrants in North Carolina
Woman-Centered Post-Abortion Care in Public Hospitals in Tucuman, Argentina
Unsafe abortion is a major public health and human rights problem in Argentina. Implementation of a woman-centered post-abortion care (PAC) model is one strategy to improve the situation. The quality of PAC services was measured in three public hospitals in Tucumán, a province with high levels of poverty and maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion. Overall, the quality of PAC services was found to be poor. Women do not receive services in a man…
Meanings of fatherhood in urban Tajikistan
Culture and Poverty in Appalachia
The prevalent explanation for persistence of in Appalachia stresses region's traditional culture which ill equips its population for participation in modern world. This research casts doubt on cultural explanation. A scale of orientation was produced from secondary analysis of data gathered from several thousand respondents in North Carolina. Attitudinal differences bet ,een respondents from Appalachian subregion of that state and from other regi…
Playing to grow
Adaptation and implementation of a primary mental health project based on work with children affected by political repression in Guatemala and Argentina are described. This intervention model utilizes a variety of expressive arts techniques to help children express their thoughts and feelings about growing up in exile. The model emphasizes the training of community members in the theory and methods of the intervention
Education as Contested Terrain
Introduction - political and educational change in Nicaragua education under tha FSLN education under the Chamarro government pre-university education higher education literacy and adult basic education conclusions
Creating Linkages Between Incomplete Abortion Treatment and Family Planning Services in Kenya
Postabortion care has received increasing emphasis as an important intervention to address part of the problem of unsafe abortion. Although a good deal of attention has been paid to improving emergency treatment of abortion complications, the other elements of postabortion care, including providing postabortion family planning services, have received less attention and are rarely found in health‐care settings around the world. This report describ…
Cubans in Puerto Rico
Attitudes towards abortion among medical trainees in Mexico City public hospitals
During the past decade, there has been considerable discussion in Mexico about abortion, and some progress has been made in improving legislation in line with agreements made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. The attitude of physicians toward abortion is a topic of interest throughout the world. In particular, this due to the fact that in many places physicians play the role of gatekeeper,…
Constructing Access to Legal Abortion Services in Mexico City
For the last three decades, government and health institutions have recognised that unsafe abortion is an important social and public health problem in Mexico. Although the Penal Code in every state defines at least one situation in which abortion is legal, access to legal abortion services is restricted for women throughout Mexico. In August 2000, the Mexico City Legislative Assembly reformed the Penal Code to include a wider range of grounds on…
Misoprostol Alone for Early Medical Abortion in a Latin American Clinic Setting
Misoprostol is being used widely by women throughout Latin America, often based on instructions passed along through friends, acquaintances or professionals who may have little information about safe and effective use. This paper presents the experience of a Latin American clinic working in a legally restrictive setting that offers misoprostol as one option to women seeking early pregnancy termination. Between February 2001 and June 2002, 3225 wo…
Postabortion care in Latin America
Unsafe abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality and morbidity in Latin America. Postabortion care (PAC) using preferred technologies and a woman-centred approach to treat the complications of unsafe abortion can save women's lives and improve their reproductive health, as well as reduce costs to health systems. This article reviews results from 10 major PAC operations research projects conducted in public sector hospitals in seven…
Reaching Women with Instructions on Misoprostol Use in a Latin American Country
In Latin America, where restrictive laws limit women's access to safe abortion services, misoprostol is being used to induce abortions, often without correct information on dosage or regimens. This study in an unnamed Latin American country aimed to identify appropriate channels through which instructions on misoprostol use could be disseminated to women. In-depth interviews were carried out with physicians, pharmacy staff, women who had had safe…
Women's Perspectives on Medical Abortion in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
In Latin America, where abortion is almost universally legally restricted, medical abortion, especially with misoprostol alone, is increasingly being used, often with the tablets obtained from a pharmacy. We carried out in-depth interviews with 49 women who had had a medical abortion under clinical supervision in rural and urban settings in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, who were recruited through clinicians providing abortions. The women of…
Woman-Centered Post-Abortion Care in Public Hospitals in Tucuman, Argentina
Unsafe abortion is a major public health and human rights problem in Argentina. Implementation of a woman-centered post-abortion care (PAC) model is one strategy to improve the situation. The quality of PAC services was measured in three public hospitals in Tucumán, a province with high levels of poverty and maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion. Overall, the quality of PAC services was found to be poor. Women do not receive services in a man…
Health Care-Based Interventions for Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence
Thirty publications that evaluated health care-based interventions for women who experienced sexual violence were reviewed. The findings highlight that clinicians often need training in the provision sexual assault care, and that not all emergency departments have sexual assault care protocols. Studies examining effectiveness found that Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programs are very helpful, that health care-based sexual assault treatment settin…
Violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas en la Ciudad de México
OBJETIVO: Analisar los factores relacionados a la violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas. MÉTODOS: Se recolectó la información de 383 mujeres derechohabientes del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social que acudieron a control prenatal en cinco Unidades de Medicina Familiar en la Ciudad de México entre septiembre del 2003 y agosto del 2004. Ellas respondieran a un cuestionario de violencia elaborado específicamente para el estudio. RESULTADOS: D…
Scaling-up a public health innovation
An assessment of health sector guidelines and services for treatment of sexual violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
In Central America, approximately 12% of women report ever having been forced to have sex by an intimate male partner, and sexual violence by others is also a frequent experience. All Central American countries are signatories to human rights agreements that oblige States to ensure access to comprehensive health services for victims of sexual violence, but there is limited information as to whether these agreements have been translated into polic…
Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women
The purpose of this research is to explore the negotiation strategies of college women as they interpret ambiguous rape scenarios. In focus groups, 1st- and 4th-year college women were presented with a series of three vignettes depicting incidents that meet the legal criteria for rape yet are ambiguous due to the presence of cultural rape myths, contexts involving alcohol consumption, varying degrees of consent, and a known perpetrator. These con…
Are movies with tobacco, alcohol, drugs, sex, and violence rated for youth? A comparison of rating systems in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States
Barriers to abortion facing Mexican immigrants in North Carolina
Conceptualizations of Postpartum Depression by Public-Sector Health Care Providers in Mexico
In this article we describe the knowledge frameworks that 61 physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists from five public-sector health care facilities in Mexico used to conceptualize postpartum depression. We also demonstrate how providers applied social and behavioral antecedents in their conceptualizations of postpartum depression. Using grounded theory, we identify two frameworks that providers used to conceptualize postpartum depre…
Meanings of fatherhood in urban Tajikistan
Evaluating the Whoops Proof S.C. Campaign
The Closer, the Better
Women’s post-rape experiences with Guatemalan health services
We conducted a qualitative study to examine the critical pathways of 23 women survivors of sexual assault who navigated health care-based services in six states in Guatemala. We also captured the components of quality health care that were important to them, including the experience of the waiting room, being able to make active decisions, providing informed consent, and receiving emotional support. Our results from the in-depth, semi-structured …
Concordance and Discordance of the Knowledge, Understanding, and Description of Children's Experience of Food Insecurity Among Hispanic Adults and Children
Food insecurity is highly detrimental for children, who experience food insecurity differently than do adults. We aimed to understand concordance and discordance of adults' and children's knowledge, understanding, and description of children's experience of food insecurity. In-depth interviews were conducted with the primary caregiver, another caregiver, and a child 9 to 16 years of age in 16 Hispanic families at risk of food insecurity in South …
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