Hannah H Leslie

Datos Biográficos

ID329081
NOMBREHannah H Leslie
NOMBRESHannah H
APELLIDOLeslie
FIRMALESLIE H H
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, San Francisco
ORCID0000-0002-7464-3645
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS35
TOTAL DE CITAS41
TOTAL COMO AUTOR35
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H3

  • Antenatal corticosteroids for pregnant women at risk of preterm labour in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessWen-Chien Yang, Catherine Arsenault et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Administering antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) to pregnant women at risk of imminent preterm labour improves newborn survival. However, ACS remains substantially underused in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where most preterm births occur globally. Providing ACS in inadequately equipped settings can be harmful. Health facilities must demonstrate readiness to ensure safe and effective ACS use. We aimed to assess ACS utilisatio…

  • The non-communicable disease e-Cohort for hypertension in Latin America

    Open AccessPatricia J Garcia, Laura Espinoza-Pajuelo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Non-communicable diseases like hypertension cause substantial morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries, where limited access to high-quality care contributes to millions of preventable deaths annually. Traditional assessments of health system performance often rely on structural indicators and cross-sectional, overlooking patient experiences and care processes. In Latin America, amid rising cardiovascular disease, longitudinal …

  • Health system and social determinants influencing potential PrEP access among young men in rural Mpumalanga, South Africa

    Open AccessHannah H Leslie, Madeline Griffith et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2025

    Young heterosexual men face HIV risk in South Africa's generalized HIV epidemic. Although many men express interest in biomedical pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), uptake of daily oral PrEP has been slow. Enhancing access to standard and alternative health care providers offering PrEP services could increase men's uptake as product options expand. We conducted in-depth interviews with 13 young men and 9 health system stakeholders in the rural Ehla…

  • Psychometric Validation of Trust, Commitment, and Satisfaction Scales to Measure Marital Relationship Quality Among Newly Married Women in Nepal

    Open AccessLakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Nadia Diamond-Smith et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Marital relationship quality significantly influences health outcomes, but validated measurement tools for South Asian populations remain limited. To validate scales measuring trust, commitment, and satisfaction as key components of marital relationship quality among newly married women in Nepal, we conducted a two-wave psychometric validation study in rural Nawalparasi district. The study included 200 newly married women aged 18-25 years, with 1…

  • Validity, Reliability, and Relevance of a Measurement Tool for Childcare Providers’ Work-Related Stress and Job Satisfaction

    Elizabeth Hentschel, Ha T T Tran et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2024

    Research Findings: Childcare provider stress and job satisfaction has been found to influence childcare quality in high-income contexts, but this phenomenon has yet to be studied in a low- or middle-income country. In 2019–2020, we tested the reliability and validity of the Child Care Center Work Environment Scale (CCCWES) with 416 childcare providers in Da Nang and Quang Nam provinces, Vietnam. We assessed content and face validity and utilized …

  • Informal payments in health facilities in Peru in 2018

    Open AccessLaura Espinoza-Pajuelo, Patricia Mallma et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Background The Latin American region demonstrates the lowest levels of trust in health systems globally. Institutional corruption is a major factor in eroding trust. Corruption in health services, including extracting bribes and informal payments from patients, directly harms health outcomes and weakens services intended as public goods. In this study, we aim to characterize the frequency and distribution of informal payments within public health…

  • Leadership, cohesion, and stress in primary care facilities and retention in chronic care in rural northeast South Africa before and during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessHannah H Leslie, Morelearnings Sibanda et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hypertension are major contributors to morbidity and mortality in South Africa. Effective management of these conditions is critical to population health, yet patient management and retention varies by facility for reasons that are not fully understood. We assessed whether measures of clinic leadership, cohesion, and stress were associated with retention for HIV and hypertension in a cohort of pa…

  • Availability of basic infection control items and personal protection equipment in 7948 health facilities in eight low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessShariful Hakim, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Hundreds of millions of people become infected globally every year while seeking care in health facilities that lack basic needs like infection control measures and personal protective equipment (PPE). We aimed to evaluate the availability of infection control items and PPE in eight low- and middle-income countries and identify disparities in the availability of those items. Methods: In this study, we combined publicly available natio…

  • Housing instability patterns among low-income, urban Black young adults in California and associations with mental health outcomes

    Open AccessMichelle Kao Nakphong, Diana Castaneda-Gameros et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    High prevalence of housing instability and mental health challenges among low-income Black young adults demands tailored interventions to reduce instability, given widening racial disparities and implications for future well-being into adulthood

  • Applying CFIR to assess multi-level barriers to PrEP delivery in rural South Africa

    Open AccessDeborah Baron, Hannah H Leslie et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Referencias: 34

    Despite established efficacy for oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in reducing HIV incidence, multi-level barriers within the health system, clinics, and the processes that shape practice have hindered service delivery and subsequent population-level effects. We applied the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to assess the context of PrEP delivery for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in rural South Africa and ident…

  • Comparing observed occurrence of mistreatment during childbirth with women’s self-report

    Open AccessHedieh Mehrtash, Meghan A Bohren et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: There has been substantial progress in developing approaches to measure mistreatment of women during childbirth. However, less is known about the differences in measurement approaches. In this study, we compare measures of mistreatment obtained from the same women using labour observations and community-based surveys in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria. METHODS: Experiences of mistreatment during childbirth are person-centred quality measure…

  • Exploring the relationship between anticipated stigma and community shared concerns about HIV on defaulting from HIV care in rural South Africa

    Open AccessErica N Browne, Marie C D Stoner et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2023

    In this sample, we found limited impact of reducing anticipated stigma and increasing shared concern about HIV on retention in care. Future studies should consider the limitations of this study by examining the influence of other sources of stigma in more detail and assessing how perceptions of stigma and concern impact the full HIV testing and care cascade

  • Estimating the Prevalence of over- and Under-Reporting in HIV Testing, Status and Treatment in Rural Northeast South Africa

    Open AccessHannah H Leslie, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

  • A systematic review of population and patient perspectives and experiences as measured in Latin American and Caribbean surveys

    Open AccessJesús Medina-Ranilla, Laura Espinoza-Pajuelo et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    High-quality health systems must provide accessible, people-centred care to both improve health and maintain population trust in health services. Furthermore, accurate measurement of population perspectives is vital to hold health systems accountable and to inform improvement efforts. To describe the current state of such measures in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), we conducted a systematic review of facility and population-based assessmen…

  • Development of measures for assessing mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth based on labour observations

    Open AccessBlair O Berger, Donna M Strobino et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Mistreatment of women during childbirth is increasingly recognised as a significant issue globally. Research and programmatic efforts targeting this phenomenon have been limited by a lack of validated measurement tools. This study aimed to develop a set of concise, valid and reliable multidimensional measures for mistreatment using labour observations applicable across multiple settings. METHODS: Data from continuous labour observat…

  • Overcoming disruptions in essential health services during the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico

    Open AccessSVETLANA V DOUBOVA, Zoé Alejandro Robledo-Aburto et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth

    Open AccessHannah H Leslie, Jigyasa Sharma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Accountability for mistreatment during facility-based childbirth requires valid tools to measure and compare birth experiences. We analyse the WHO 'How women are treated during facility-based childbirth' community survey to test whether items mapping the typology of mistreatment function as scales and to create brief item sets to capture mistreatment by domain. METHODS: The cross-sectional community survey was conducted at up to 8 wee…

  • The road to recovery

    Open AccessSVETLANA V DOUBOVA, Catherine Arsenault et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Recovery of health services disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic represents a significant challenge in low- and middle-income countries. In April 2021, the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), which provides health care to 68.5 million people, launched the National Strategy for Health Services Recovery (Recovery policy). The study objective was to evaluate whether the Recovery policy addressed COVID-related declines in maternal,…

  • Disruption in essential health services in Mexico during Covid-19

    Open AccessSVETLANA V DOUBOVA, Hannah H Leslie et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted health systems around the world. The objectives of this study are to estimate the overall effect of the pandemic on essential health service use and outcomes in Mexico, describe observed and predicted trends in services over 24 months, and to estimate the number of visits lost through December 2020. METHODS: We used health information system data for January 2019 to December 2020 from the Mexican …

  • Health Care Providers' Challenges to High-Quality HIV Care and Antiretroviral Treatment Retention in Rural South Africa

    Open AccessAimée Julien, Sibyl Anthieren et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2021Citada por: 2Referencias: 48

    Provision of high-quality HIV care is challenging, especially in rural primary care clinics in high HIV burden settings. We aimed to better understand the main challenges to quality HIV care provision and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in rural South Africa from the health care providers' perspective. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 23 providers from nine rural clinics. Using thematic and framework a…

  • Examining coverage, content, and impact of maternal nutrition interventions

    Open AccessNaima T Joseph, Ellen Piwoz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Reductions in neonatal mortality remain stagnant, despite gains in health care access and utilization. Nutrition interventions during antenatal care (ANC) and in the immediate postpartum period are associated with improved neonatal outcomes. Adjusting coverage estimates for the quality of care provided yields greater insight into health system performance and potential population health benefits of accessing care. In this cross-sectio…

  • Variance estimation for effective coverage measures

    Open AccessSara M Sauer, Sara Sauer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Effective coverage research is increasing rapidly in global health and development, as researchers use a range of measures and combine data sources to adjust coverage for the quality of services received. However, most estimates of effective coverage that combine data sources are reported only as point estimates, which may be due to the challenge of calculating the variance for a composite measure. In this paper, we evaluate three met…

  • Quality of clinical assessment and child mortality

    Open AccessNicole A Perales, Dorothy Wei et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 23

    This analysis describes specific gaps in the quality of health care in Central Africa and assesses the association between quality of clinical care and mortality at age 2–59 months. Regionally representative facility and household surveys for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Central African Republic were collected between 2012 and 2016. These data are novel in linking facilities with households in their catchment area. Complianc…

  • Assessing health system performance

    Open AccessHannah H Leslie, SVETLANA V DOUBOVA et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 28

    Universal health coverage is a national priority in Mexico, with active efforts to expand public healthcare system access, increase financial protection and improve quality of care. We estimated effective coverage of multiple conditions within the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), which covers 62 million individuals. We identified routinely collected performance indicators at IMSS from 2016 related to use and quality of care for condit…

  • Countdown to 2030

    Open AccessTies Boerma, Jennifer Requejo et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018