Susan Horton

Datos Biográficos

ID3582853
NOMBRESusan Horton
NOMBRESSusan
APELLIDOHorton
FIRMAHORTON S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Waterloo
ORCID0000-0002-9243-4767
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAS80
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1983
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • How much can healthier diets reduce future economic and human costs? Results from Ethiopia and the Philippines

    Open AccessSusan Horton, Michelle F Gaffey et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2026Referencias: 25

    As countries progress through the ‘nutrition transition’ and experience rising rates of obesity and noncommunicable disease, concern has broadened from a primary focus on economic consequences of child stunting, to incorporate multiple forms of malnutrition, including overweight and obesity, or a more ambitious set of individual dietary risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease work. This paper conceptualizes a methodology that uses unhealth…

  • Costs of testing sick children in primary care with pulse oximetry

    Open AccessSusan Horton, Ulrich Adombi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Introducing pulse oximeters (PO) at primary care facilities can help health workers identify severely ill children who need referral to hospital thereby allowing for improved child clinical outcomes. Adding clinical decision support algorithms (CDSA) can improve adherence to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines. The current study analyses the costs of introducing PO either with or without an electronic CDSA using an RCT in India …

  • Association between the use of Accredited Social Health Activist (Asha) services and uptake of institutional deliveries in India

    Open AccessSujata Mishra, Susan Horton et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    This study examines the impact of accredited social health activists (ASHAs), on increasing rates of institution-based deliveries among Indian women with a specific focus on the nine low-performing, empowered action group states and Assam (EAGA) in India. Using the latest round of the National Family Health Survey-V (2019–21), we first investigate the association between the use of ASHA services and socio-demographic attributes of women using a m…

  • The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (Timci) study protocol

    Open AccessFenella Beynon, Hélène Langet et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Effective and sustainable strategies are needed to address the burden of preventable deaths among children under-five in resource-constrained settings. The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) project aims to support healthcare providers to identify and manage severe illness, whilst promoting resource stewardship, by introducing pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms (CDSAs) to primary care facilities in I…

  • Assessing the hidden burden and costs of Covid-19 pandemic in South Asia

    Open AccessAatekah Owais, Arjumand Rizvi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected vulnerable populations. With its intensity expected to be cyclical over the foreseeable future, and much of the impact estimates still modeled, it is imperative that we accurately assess the impact to date, to help with the process of targeted rebuilding of services. We collected data from administrative health information systems in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, I…

  • Qualitative exploration of the dynamics of women’s dietary diversity. How much does economic empowerment matter

    Open AccessMichael Nnachebe Onah, John Hoddinott et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: This study qualitatively examined dietary diversity among married women of reproductive age who engaged in two socio-economic activities to explore the dynamics of food availability, access, costs and consumption. Design: Qualitative in-depth interviews. The food groups in the Minimum Dietary Diversity for women were used to explore women’s dietary diversity. IDI were used to develop a roster of daily food consumption over a week. We e…

  • Information asymmetry in the Kenyan medical laboratory sector

    Open AccessFelix Bahati, Mike English et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Important information about medical laboratory providers is not readily available to all patients, clinicians nor regulators in Kenya. This study was conducted as part of a wider project aiming to improve access to high quality diagnostics by addressing information asymmetries in the Kenyan market for laboratory services. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to: 1) Gather pricing information for 49 common laboratory tests from me…

  • Geospatial evaluation of trade-offs between equity in physical access to healthcare and health systems efficiency

    Open AccessHari S Iyer, John Flanigan et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Decisions regarding the geographical placement of healthcare services require consideration of trade-offs between equity and efficiency, but few empirical assessments are available. We applied a novel geospatial framework to study these trade-offs in four African countries. METHODS: Geolocation data on population density (a surrogate for efficiency), health centres and cancer referral centres in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Rwanda we…

  • Cost‐effectiveness of sunflower oil fortification with vitamin A in Tanzania by scale

    Open AccessDylan Walters, Edna Ndau et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    In 2011, Tanzania mandated the fortification of edible oil with vitamin A to help address its vitamin A deficiency (VAD) public health problem. By 2015, only 16% of edible oil met the standards for adequate fortification. There is no evidence on the cost-effectiveness of the fortification of edible oil by small- and medium-scale (SMS) producers in preventing VAD. The MASAVA project initiated the production of sunflower oil fortified with vitamin …

  • Impact of behaviour change communication interventions on sales of fortified sunflower oil in Tanzania

    Open AccessD C Wu, Susan Horton et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    The Masava project was implemented in Manyara and Shinyanga regions in Tanzania to improve vitamin A intake by making available vitamin A-fortified sunflower oil with a subsidy through a mobile phone-based e-Voucher system. This study was conducted to assess the impact of the behaviour change communication (BCC) campaign of the project on volume of sales of vitamin A-fortified sunflower oil. The e-Voucher system provides real-time data on the num…

  • Effectiveness of social marketing in improving knowledge, attitudes and practice of consumption of vitamin A-fortified oil in Tanzania

    Open AccessD C Wu, Daphne Chen Nee Wu et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a social marketing intervention in enhancing knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) related to consumption of vitamin A-fortified oil. Design The intervention employed community events, distribution of educational materials and radio broadcasts. The intervention was assessed in a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group study design by collecting information on KAP regarding vitamin A-fortified o…

  • Needs and Barriers of Teen Mothers in Rural Eastern Uganda

    Open AccessJosephine Nabugoomu, Gloria K Seruwagi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    For adolescent mothers in rural Eastern Uganda, nutrition and health may be compromised by many factors. Identifying individual and environmental needs and barriers at local levels is important to inform community-based interventions. This qualitative study used interviews based on constructs from social cognitive theory. 101 adolescent mothers, family members, health-related personnel and community workers in Budondo sub-county (Jinja district),…

  • Male-female differences in households' resource allocation and decision to seek healthcare in south-eastern Nigeria

    Open AccessMichael Nnachebe Onah, Susan HortonARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Citada por: 3Referencias: 36

  • Prioritizing research for integrated implementation of early childhood development and maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition platforms

    Open AccessRenee Sharma, Michelle F Gaffey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Existing health and nutrition services present potential platforms for scaling up delivery of early childhood development (ECD) interventions within sensitive windows across the life course, especially in the first 1000 days from conception to age 2 years. However, there is insufficient knowledge on how to optimize implementation for such strategies in an integrated manner. In light of this knowledge gap, we aimed to systematically id…

  • Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?

    Open AccessNigel Rollins, Nigel C Rollins et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

  • Breastfeeding in the 21st century

    Open AccessCesar G Victora, Roy Bahl et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

    The importance of breastfeeding in low-income and middle-income countries is well recognised, but less consensus exists about its importance in high-income countries. In low-income and middle-income countries, only 37% of children younger than 6 months of age are exclusively breastfed. With few exceptions, breastfeeding duration is shorter in high-income countries than in those that are resource-poor. Our meta-analyses indicate protection against…

  • The cost of not breastfeeding in Southeast Asia

    Open AccessDylan Walters, Susan Horton et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Citada por: 5Referencias: 24

    Rates of exclusive breastfeeding are slowly increasing, but remain suboptimal globally despite the health and economic benefits. This study estimates the costs of not breastfeeding across seven countries in Southeast Asia and presents a cost-benefit analysis of a modeled comprehensive breastfeeding strategy in Viet Nam, based on a large programme. There have been very few such studies previously for low- and middle-income countries. The estimates…

  • Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition

    Open AccessZulfiqar A Bhutta, Jai K Das et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2013

  • The economic rationale for investing in stunting reduction

    Open AccessJohn Hoddinott, Harold Alderman et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2013

    This paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present a framework that illustrates the functional consequences of stunting in the 1000 days after conception throughout the life cycle: from childhood through to old age. We summarize the key empirical literature around each of the links in the life cycle, highlighting gaps in knowledge where they exist. We construct credible estimates of benefit–cost ratios for…

  • Double-fortified salt reduces anemia, benefit

    Open AccessSusan Horton, Sue Horton et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2011Referencias: 3

  • Setting priorities for zinc-related health research to reduce children’s disease burden worldwide

    Open AccessKendall H Brown, Kenneth H Brown et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2009

    Objective To make the best use of limited resources for supporting health-related research to reduce child mortality, it is necessary to apply a suitable method to rank competing research options. The Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) developed a new methodology for setting health research priorities. To broaden experience with this priority-setting technique, we applied the method to rank possible research priorities concern…

  • Economic Gains of a Home Fortification Program

    Open AccessWaseem Sharieff, Susan Horton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2006Citada por: 4Referencias: 21

  • Introduction

    Open AccessÄ P Lino Grima, Susan Horton et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2003

  • The economics of iron deficiency

    Open AccessSusan Horton, Jay RossARTICLEFood Policy2003Citada por: 12Referencias: 2

  • Voluntary Action in Health and Population

    Susan Horton, Sunil MisraARTICLEPacific Affairs2001

    'The main strength of the book is that it is a collection of credible field studies conducted in geographically specific areas (Indian states), thus each chapter has a particular focus beyond which it does not stray' - Omar A. Khan, Contemporary South Asia Bringing together fourteen case studies from action research projects undertaken by voluntary organizations in India, this book analyzes the dynamics of social change, the factors that lead to …