Louise T Day

Datos Biográficos

ID5480870
NOMBRELouise T Day
NOMBRESLouise T
APELLIDODay
FIRMADAY L T
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0002-0038-0002
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS20
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR20
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Enhancing learning from evaluations in newborn and child health

    Open AccessC Blacklock, Andrew Clarke et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Operational learning from projects and programmes in newborn and child health in the international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and the charity sector is vast

  • Facility newborn and stillbirth data use and enabling factors at different levels of the health system

    Open AccessFirehiwot Abathun, Paolo Dalena et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Improving data quality and use is a priority identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce stillbirths and newborn deaths; however, few studies have documented newborn and stillbirth data use in the African Region. To address this gap, we conducted a cross-sectional study from November 2022 to July 2024 in 12 regions and four city administrations across the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. …

  • Functionalities of electronic routine health information systems related to newborn data

    Open AccessMary Ayele, Ilaria Mariani et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Adequate functionality of electronic routine health information systems (eRHISs) is crucial for data use, yet few studies explored it in relation to newborn and stillbirth data in Africa. Methods: We conducted this cross-sectional study between November 2022 and July 2024 in data offices at central and subnational levels in 12 regions and 4 city administrations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. Exc…

  • Organisational and management factors and related end-users’ perspectives relevant to newborn and stillbirth data at different levels of the health system

    Open AccessIlaria Mariani, Firehiwot Abathun et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: As few studies systematically analysed organisational and management factors related to newborn and stillbirth data quality, we sought to identify specific gaps in these factors to provide evidence for planning tailored actions. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional survey in 12 regions and 4 city administrations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda between November 2022 and July 2024, collecting dat…

  • Availability and the quality of key newborn data within routine health facility data

    Open AccessRornald Muhumuza Kananura, Dalena Paolo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: With declining funding for population-based household surveys, routine health facility data offer a promising alternative for tracking newborn health and service quality. However, their utility depends on data quality. We assessed the quality of ten data elements within routine health information systems in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda, seven of which align with the Every Newborn Action Plan core …

  • Advancing maternal and newborn healthcare measurement

    Open AccessAshley Sheffel, Shannon King et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: High-quality healthcare for pregnant women and newborns, particularly postnatal care (PNC) and small and/or sick newborn care (SSNC), is essential to reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Poor quality of care (QoC) is a major contributor to preventable morbidity and mortality, emphasising the need for its improvement in health service delivery through systematic measurement …

  • Surgical indicators for obstetrics and family planning in routine health information systems

    Open AccessMaxine Pepper, Oona M R Campbell et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025Referencias: 36

    Strengthening use of high-quality data for surgical obstetrics and family planning is important for improving maternal and perinatal health outcomes. Routine health information systems (RHIS) represent an important data source for indicator tracking. This landscape analysis aims to describe and compare surgical obstetric and family planning indicators put forth by global multi-stakeholder groups and those that are currently captured in RHIS in ni…

  • A global analysis of the determinants of maternal health and transitions in maternal mortality

    Open AccessJuliano P Souza, João Paulo Souza et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2024

    The reduction of maternal mortality and the promotion of maternal health and wellbeing are complex tasks. This Series paper analyses the distal and proximal determinants of maternal health, as well as the exposures, risk factors, and micro-correlates related to maternal mortality. This paper also examines the relationship between these determinants and the gradual shift over time from a pattern of high maternal mortality to a pattern of low mater…

  • How and why does mode of birth affect processes for routine data collection and use? A qualitative study in Bangladesh and Tanzania

    Open AccessHarriet Ruysen, Tamanna Majid et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The World Health Organization recognises Routine Health Information System (RHIS) data as integral to data-driven health systems; needed to improve intrapartum outcomes for maternal and newborn health worldwide. However, research in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggests that mode of birth affects register data accuracy, but little is known about why. To address this gap, we undertook qualitative research in these two public-sector health systems. We c…

  • Measures to assess quality of postnatal care

    Open AccessAnna Galle, Amelia Castillo Morán et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    High quality postnatal care is key for the health and wellbeing of women after childbirth and their newborns. In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) published global recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal care experience in a new WHO PNC guideline. Evidence regarding appropriate measures to monitor implementation of postnatal care (PNC) according to the WHO PNC guideline is lacking. This scoping review aims to…

  • Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth

    Open AccessMasudah Paleker, Dorothy Boggs et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: Birth registration is vital to provide legal identity and access to essential services. Worldwide, approximately 166 million children under five years (just under 25%) are unregistered, yet >80% of all births occur in health facilities in most low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). OBJECTIVES: This study, conducted in association with UNICEF, aims to review facility-based birth registration initiatives, and provide recommendations t…

  • Maternal and newborn healthcare providers’ work-related experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, and their physical, psychological, and economic impacts

    Open AccessDelphin Kolié, Aline Semaan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have substantial impacts on health systems globally. This study describes experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, and physical, psychological and economic impacts among maternal and newborn healthcare providers. We conducted a global online cross-sectional survey of maternal and newborn healthcare providers. Data collected between July and December 2020 included demographic characteristics, work-related experi…

  • Quality of routine health facility data used for newborn indicators in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessRebecca Lundin, Ilaria Mariani et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

  • Measuring coverage and quality of supportive care for inpatient neonatal infections

    Open AccessAniqa Tasnim Hossain, Shafiqul Ameen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: An estimated 7 million episodes of severe newborn infections occur annually worldwide, with half a million newborn deaths, most occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Whilst injectable antibiotics are necessary to treat the infection, supportive care is also crucial in ending preventable mortality and morbidity. This study uses multi-country data to assess gaps in coverage, quality, and documentation of supportive care, consid…

  • Implementing a Care Pathway for small and nutritionally at‐risk infants under six months of age

    Open AccessTabitha D van Immerzeel, Maty Diagne et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Nutritional vulnerability under the age of 6 months is prevalent in low- and middle-income countries with 20.1% infants underweight, 21.3% wasted and 17.6% stunted in a recent review. A novel Care Pathway for improved management of small and nutritionally at-risk infants under 6 months and their mothers (MAMI) has recently been developed to provide outpatient care at large coverage. We aimed to investigate stakeholders' views on the feasibility o…

  • Equity in newborn care, evidence from national surveys in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessKimberly Peven, Lindsay Mallick et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2021

    This analysis underlines the importance of facility birth for improved and more equitable newborn care. Shifting births to facilities, improving facility-based care, and community-based or pro-poor interventions are important to mitigate wealth-based inequities in newborn care, particularly in countries with large differences between the poorest and richest families and in countries with very low coverage of care

  • Voices from the frontline

    Open AccessAline Semaan, Constance Audet et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially impacted maternity care provision worldwide. Studies based on modelling estimated large indirect effects of the pandemic on services and health outcomes. The objective of this study was to prospectively document experiences of frontline maternal and newborn healthcare providers. METHODS: We conducted a global, cross-sectional study of maternal and newborn health professionals via an online sur…

  • “Every Newborn-BIRTH” protocol

    Open AccessLouise T Day, Harriet Ruysen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: - Birth Indicators Research Tracking in Hospitals (EN-BIRTH) study aims to validate selected newborn and maternal indicators for routine tracking of coverage and quality of facility-based care for use at district, national and global levels. METHODS: EN-BIRTH is an observational study including >20 000 facility births in three countries (Tanzania, Bangladesh and Nepal) to validate selected indicators. Direct clinical observation will …

  • Stillbirths

    Open AccessJoy Elizabeth Lawn, Hannah Blencowe et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

    An estimated 2.6 million third trimester stillbirths occurred in 2015 (uncertainty range 2.4-3.0 million). The number of stillbirths has reduced more slowly than has maternal mortality or mortality in children younger than 5 years, which were explicitly targeted in the Millennium Development Goals. The Every Newborn Action Plan has the target of 12 or fewer stillbirths per 1000 births in every country by 2030. 94 mainly high-income countries and …

  • National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates in 2015, with trends from 2000

    Open AccessHannah Blencowe, Simon Cousen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2016

    BACKGROUND: Previous estimates have highlighted a large global burden of stillbirths, with an absence of reliable data from regions where most stillbirths occur. The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) targets national stillbirth rates (SBRs) of 12 or fewer stillbirths per 1000 births by 2030. We estimate SBRs and numbers for 195 countries, including trends from 2000 to 2015. METHODS: We collated SBR data meeting prespecified inclusion criteria from…