Leslie Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3700182 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leslie Roberts |
| NOMBRES | Leslie |
| APELLIDO | Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS L |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1949 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Learning from health information challenges in the Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the world's poorest and most fragile countries. Maybe there is no nation on the planet where the official health statistics are so poor. Evidence presented in this Conflict and Health themed collection to document humanitarian needs in CAR, suggests that UN statistics dramatically under-estimate the birth and death rates in conflict settings. To be current and valid, health indicator data in violent se…
Surveys about attended births appear to be deceptive in CAR
It is believed that because the baseline interviews occurred with a stranger, this induced interviewees to say what they thought the interviewers wanted to hear. This calls into question the validity of household surveys when agencies have a known agenda or position, and highlights the need for external validation or triangulation of survey findings
Mortality beyond emergency threshold in a silent crisis– results from a population-based mortality survey in Ouaka prefecture, Central African Republic, 2020
The CMR, U5MR and MMR exceed previous estimates, and the CMR exceeds the humanitarian emergency threshold. Violence is a major threat to life, and to physical and mental wellbeing. Other causes of death speak to poor living conditions and poor access to healthcare and preventive measures, corroborated by the challenges reported by households. Many areas of CAR face similar challenges to Ouaka. If these results were generalisable across CAR, the c…
Internet searching produces misleading findings regarding violent deaths in crisis settings
Donor and agency priorities are influenced by a variety of political, social, and media-related forces that can have a profound impact on response and resource provision. We have attempted to assess how well internet searches articulate the span of violent death rates for five current "crisis" settings. In three graduate classes (2 public health, 1 information science) at US universities, during a four month period in 2017-2018, we asked approxim…
Monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia
The United Nations' Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism is charged with documenting six grave violations against children in a time of conflict, including attacks on schools. Many of these incidents, however, remain unreported across the globe. This study explores whether or not a local knowledge base of education and child protection actors in North and South Kivu Provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Mogadishu, Somalia, could contr…
Measuring Physical Violence and Rape Against Somali Women Using the Neighborhood Method
This study was conducted to estimate prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) among female Somalis in Ethiopian refugee camps and host communities, compare prevalence in camps and communities, and compare prevalence in flight and in camp. Systematic random sampling was used to select households in Awbare camp (n = 85), Awbare town (n = 76), and Kebribeyah camp (n = 83). GBV was common and overwhelmingly domestic. Prevalence was higher in Awbare …
Commentary
The author argues that measuring mortality in conflict settings is fraught with limitations which mostly result in under-estimation of mortality. Some recent publications on this subject have been based upon convenient surveillance processes, or even press reports. The author calls for vigilance against such studies and argues that war related surveillance-based mortality estimates should include measures of sensitivity and representativeness
A Plea For Cost-Effectiveness, or at Least Avoiding Public Health Malpractice
The author discusses the mission of public health that attempts to provide the most benefit for society with available limited resources. He discusses the advocacy of cost-effectiveness in public health that is at odds with the medical approach to service. He mentions the historical underpinnings of this approach and the notion of health for all proclaimed in the 1978 Declaration at Alma Ata
Capital Report
Cancer Today
The Chief. A Political Biography of Maurice Duplessis
Home from the Cold Wars
Monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia
The United Nations' Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism is charged with documenting six grave violations against children in a time of conflict, including attacks on schools. Many of these incidents, however, remain unreported across the globe. This study explores whether or not a local knowledge base of education and child protection actors in North and South Kivu Provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Mogadishu, Somalia, could contr…
Home from the Cold Wars
The Chief. A Political Biography of Maurice Duplessis
Cancer Today
Capital Report
A Plea For Cost-Effectiveness, or at Least Avoiding Public Health Malpractice
The author discusses the mission of public health that attempts to provide the most benefit for society with available limited resources. He discusses the advocacy of cost-effectiveness in public health that is at odds with the medical approach to service. He mentions the historical underpinnings of this approach and the notion of health for all proclaimed in the 1978 Declaration at Alma Ata
Commentary
The author argues that measuring mortality in conflict settings is fraught with limitations which mostly result in under-estimation of mortality. Some recent publications on this subject have been based upon convenient surveillance processes, or even press reports. The author calls for vigilance against such studies and argues that war related surveillance-based mortality estimates should include measures of sensitivity and representativeness
Measuring Physical Violence and Rape Against Somali Women Using the Neighborhood Method
This study was conducted to estimate prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) among female Somalis in Ethiopian refugee camps and host communities, compare prevalence in camps and communities, and compare prevalence in flight and in camp. Systematic random sampling was used to select households in Awbare camp (n = 85), Awbare town (n = 76), and Kebribeyah camp (n = 83). GBV was common and overwhelmingly domestic. Prevalence was higher in Awbare …
Monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia
The United Nations' Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism is charged with documenting six grave violations against children in a time of conflict, including attacks on schools. Many of these incidents, however, remain unreported across the globe. This study explores whether or not a local knowledge base of education and child protection actors in North and South Kivu Provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Mogadishu, Somalia, could contr…
Internet searching produces misleading findings regarding violent deaths in crisis settings
Donor and agency priorities are influenced by a variety of political, social, and media-related forces that can have a profound impact on response and resource provision. We have attempted to assess how well internet searches articulate the span of violent death rates for five current "crisis" settings. In three graduate classes (2 public health, 1 information science) at US universities, during a four month period in 2017-2018, we asked approxim…
Learning from health information challenges in the Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the world's poorest and most fragile countries. Maybe there is no nation on the planet where the official health statistics are so poor. Evidence presented in this Conflict and Health themed collection to document humanitarian needs in CAR, suggests that UN statistics dramatically under-estimate the birth and death rates in conflict settings. To be current and valid, health indicator data in violent se…
Surveys about attended births appear to be deceptive in CAR
It is believed that because the baseline interviews occurred with a stranger, this induced interviewees to say what they thought the interviewers wanted to hear. This calls into question the validity of household surveys when agencies have a known agenda or position, and highlights the need for external validation or triangulation of survey findings
Mortality beyond emergency threshold in a silent crisis– results from a population-based mortality survey in Ouaka prefecture, Central African Republic, 2020
The CMR, U5MR and MMR exceed previous estimates, and the CMR exceeds the humanitarian emergency threshold. Violence is a major threat to life, and to physical and mental wellbeing. Other causes of death speak to poor living conditions and poor access to healthcare and preventive measures, corroborated by the challenges reported by households. Many areas of CAR face similar challenges to Ouaka. If these results were generalisable across CAR, the c…
Medicine (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Environmental health (6 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 obras) · Public health (6 obras) · Health and Conflict Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Nursing (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Demography (4 obras)