Ties Boerma

Datos Biográficos

ID1511150
NOMBRETies Boerma
NOMBRESTies
APELLIDOBoerma
FIRMABOERMA T
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Manitoba
ORCID0000-0002-8489-4499
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS65
TOTAL DE CITAS17
TOTAL COMO AUTOR65
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1987
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Cause-specific mortality transition among women of reproductive age with special reference to maternal mortality

    Open AccessMilly Marston, Sophia Kagoye et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Limited population data exist on mortality and causes of death among women of reproductive age, including maternal mortality. OBJECTIVE: To present trends from 1995 to 2022 in mortality, cause of death, maternal mortality ratio and place of death from the rural Magu health and demographic surveillance site in north-west Tanzania. METHODS: Data on residency, fertility, and verbal autopsy were analysed to compute trends in all-cause and…

  • Maternal and child healthcare coverage and trends

    Open AccessRogers Nsubuga, Rornald Muhumuza Kananura et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2026

    Novel approach - leveraging routine facility data, revealed MCH coverage was modestly consistently higher in RH districts over the years and RH status influenced ANC4 coverage. Overall district-CCI depended on Government investment and health systems performance implying increase in PHC financing could be a key driver to universal district-level improvement

  • Trends in Median Age at First Sex and Age at First Marriage Among Youth in Tanzania

    Open AccessJacqueline Materu, Eveline T Konje et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2026Referencias: 29

    Understanding trends in age of first sex and first marriage is vital for interventions addressing sexually transmitted infections (STIs/HIV) and youth sexual behavior. Shifts in these milestones affect fertility, contraceptive use, and STI/HIV dynamics. Traditional descriptive statistics often overlook younger populations, leading to inaccurate trend assessments. This study analyzed trends in median age at first sex and first marriage using survi…

  • Lessons learned from redesigning public health medicines supply chain model in Uttar Pradesh, India

    Open AccessVasanthakumar Namasivayam, Manuj Purwar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Uttar Pradesh (UP), the most populous state of India with 238 million people, has over 30,000 public health facilities. Ensuring the continuous availability of essential medicines across these facilities is a significant challenge. An audit conducted in 2017 indicated large gaps in the availability of essential medicines in public health facilities. This study describes the lessons from Tamil Nadu’s Medical Supplies Corporation (TNMSC) that were …

  • Essential newborn care practices in selected public health facilities using observation of 2603 normal deliveries in Uttar Pradesh, India

    Open AccessShajy Isac, Bidyadhar Dehury et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Essential newborn care (ENBC) practices are recommended for all births to improve neonatal survival. This paper aims to understand the facility-level variations and factors associated with the essential newborn care practices by providers in higher-level public health facilities in 25 high priority districts (HPDs) of Uttar Pradesh (UP). METHODS: We used observational cross-sectional quantitative data from 48 selected public health …

  • Levels and determinants of person-centred maternity care among women living in urban informal settlements

    Open AccessSafia S Jiwani, Kadari Cissé et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa's rapid urbanisation has led to the sprawling of urban informal settlements. The urban poorest women are more likely to experience worse health outcomes and poor treatment during childbirth. This study measures levels of person-centred maternity care (PCMC) and identifies determinants of PCMC among women living in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Lusaka and Ouagadougou. METHODS: We conducted phone, home-based …

  • Operationalising an integrated mortality transition framework for programmatic priority setting across maternal and newborn health

    Open AccessRyan Fitzgerald, Gloria Ikilezi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Data-driven decision making will be instrumental in reducing maternal mortality, newborn mortality, and stillbirth levels in the coming years as the Sustainable Development Goal targets draw near in 2030. Tailoring evidence to be context-specific is crucial to target relevant questions, priorities, and needs. In doing so, there remains value in grounding local data in the broader global health data landscape. Here, we introduce one resource - an …

  • Assessing courtesy reporting bias in facility-based surveys on person-centred maternity care

    Open AccessSafia S Jiwani, Martin Kavao Mutua et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Experience of care is typically measured through client exit surveys administered in the facility. Evidence suggests that such measures suffer from courtesy reporting bias whereby respondents do not accurately report on their experiences while in the facility. We explored the presence of courtesy bias by comparing women's reported experience of person-centred maternity care (PCMC) from facility-based client exit surveys to mobile phon…

  • The Role of Public Health Services in Reducing Maternal and Newborn Health Inequalities in Urban India

    Open AccessAndrea Katryn Blanchard, Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2025

    India has experienced rapid urbanisation, straining the healthcare system. The National Urban Health Mission was launched in 2013 to improve access to public healthcare, particularly among socio-economically disadvantaged urban populations. This study aimed to assess whether inequalities in maternal and newborn health (MNH) service coverage and outcomes between richer and poorer groups have improved at public and private sources across urban Indi…

  • An analytical approach towards attaining leave no one behind using patterns and distributions of inequalities in antenatal and facility delivery coverage in Uttar Pradesh, India

    Open AccessVasanthakumar Namasivayam, Ravi Prakash et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025

    The proposed health equity framework suggests that to achieve LNOB status, understanding inequality with the coverage status is important. If coverage is high and inequality persists, identify the program layer at which maximum inequality persists to identify the left behinds. Whereas, if coverage is poor, programs are required to improve coverage first. Findings also call for a systematic way of collecting and organizing granular data to underst…

  • Learning from success

    Open AccessOona Maeve Renee Campbell, Agbessi Amouzou et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Currently, about 8% of deaths worldwide are maternal or neonatal deaths, or stillbirths. Maternal and neonatal mortality have been a focus of the Millenium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals, and mortality levels have improved since the 1990s. We aim to answer two questions: What were the key drivers of maternal and neonatal mortality reductions seen in seven positive-outlier countries from 2000 to the present? How generalisa…

  • Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens

    Open AccessDessalegn Y Melesse, Ashenif Tadele et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: This study aimed to enhance insights into the key characteristics of maternal and neonatal mortality declines in Ethiopia, conducted as part of a seven-country study on Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) Exemplars. METHODS: We synthesised key indicators for 2000, 2010 and 2020 and contextualised those with typical country values in a global five-phase model for a maternal, stillbirth and neonatal mortality transition. We reviewed healt…

  • Levels, trends and inequalities in mortality among 5–19-year-olds in Tanzania

    Open AccessSophia Kagoye, Eveline T Konje et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: For the past two decades, health priorities in Tanzania have focussed on children under-five, leaving behind the older children and adolescents (5-19 years). Understanding mortality patterns beyond 5 years is important in bridging a healthy gap between childhood to adulthood. We aimed to estimate mortality levels, trends, and inequalities among 5-19-year-olds using population data from the Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance Site…

  • Causes of death among older children and adolescents (5–19 years) in the Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance Study, Tanzania, 1995–2022

    Open AccessSophia Kagoye, Milly Marston et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Population data on mortality and causes of death among 5-19-year-olds are limited. OBJECTIVES: To assess levels, trends, and risk factors of cause-specific mortality and place at death among 5-19-year-olds in Tanzania (1995-2022). METHODS: Using longitudinal data from the Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance System in northwest Tanzania, we identified leading causes of death among 5-19-year-olds from verbal autopsy interviews, usi…

  • Progress in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessCheikh Mbacké Faye, Blessing Mberu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024

  • Identifying and Characterizing the Poorest Urban Population Using National Household Surveys in 38 Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessFernando César Wehrmeister, Leonardo Z Ferreira et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024Referencias: 3

    Identifying and classifying poor and rich groups in cities depends on several factors. Using data from available nationally representative surveys from 38 sub-Saharan African countries, we aimed to identify, through different poverty classifications, the best classification in urban and large city contexts. Additionally, we characterized the poor and rich groups in terms of living standards and schooling. We relied on absolute and relative measur…

  • Erosion of the Capital City Advantage in Child Survival and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Intervention Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessAgbessi Amouzou, Dessalegn Y Melesse et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024Referencias: 3

    The place of residence is a major determinant of RMNCH outcomes, with rural areas often lagging in sub-Saharan Africa. This long-held pattern may be changing given differential progress across areas and increasing urbanization. We assessed inequalities in child mortality and RMNCH coverage across capital cities and other urban and rural areas. We analyzed mortality data from 163 DHS and MICS in 39 countries with the most recent survey conducted b…

  • Deprivation and Its Association with Child Health and Nutrition in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area of Uganda

    Open AccessRornald Muhumuza Kananura, Peter Waiswa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024Referencias: 5

    African cities are experiencing increasing living standard disparities with limited evidence of intra-urban health disparities. Using data from the 2006-2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys, we employed the UN-Habitat definition to examine slum-like household conditions in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA). Subsequently, we developed a slum-like severity index and assessed its association with under-5 common morbidities and healt…

  • High Child Mortality and Interventions Coverage in the City of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Open AccessSophia Kagoye, Jacqueline Minja et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024Referencias: 2

    The 'urban penalty' in health refers to the loss of a presumed survival advantage due to adverse consequences of urban life. This study investigated the levels and trends in neonatal, post-neonatal and under-5 mortality rate and key determinants of child survival using data from Tanzania Demographic and Health Surveys (TDHS) (2004/05, 2010 and 2015/16), AIDS Indicator Survey (AIS), Malaria Indicator survey (MIS) and health facility data in Tanzan…

  • Going deeper with health equity measurement

    Open AccessAndrea Katryn Blanchard, Choolwe Jacobs et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2023

    Multi-tier equity measures provided similarly plausible and precise estimates as conventional measures for most comparisons, except mortality among some wealth deciles, and wealth tertiles by province. This suggests that related research could readily use these multi-tier measures to gain deeper insights on inequality patterns for both health coverage and impact indicators, given sufficient samples. Future household survey analyses using fit-for-…

  • Coverage, Trends, and Inequalities of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Indicators among the Poor and Non-Poor in the Most Populous Cities from 38 Sub-Saharan African Countries

    Open AccessCauane Blumenberg, Janaína Calu Costa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2023Citada por: 1

    Rapid urbanization is likely to be associated with suboptimal access to essential health services. This is especially true in cities from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where urbanization is outpacing improvements in infrastructure. We assessed the current situation in regard to several markers of maternal, newborn, and child health, including indicators of coverage of health interventions (demand for family planning satisfied with modern methods, at …

  • Health service utilisation during the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020

    Open AccessAgbessi Amouzou, Abdoulaye Maiga et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: There are concerns about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the continuation of essential health services in sub-Saharan Africa. Through the Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health country collaborations, analysts from country and global public health institutions and ministries of health assessed the trends in selected services for maternal, newborn and child health, general service utilisation. METHOD…

  • Paving the way to understanding female-headed households

    Open AccessGhada E Saad, Hala Ghattas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Female-headed households (FHHs) are regarded as disadvantaged. There are multiple social trajectories that can lead to women heading households. It is important to distinguish between these trajectories, as well as societal norms and contextual factors, to understand how and when are FHHs represented as a dimension of gender inequity. Our analysis defines and describes a typology of 16 FHH types (FHH16) based on demographic characteri…

  • Zooming in and out

    Open AccessNeha Singh, Andrea Katryn Blanchard et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    Research is needed to understand why some countries succeed in greater improvements in maternal, late foetal and newborn health (MNH) and reducing mortality than others. Pathways towards these health outcomes operate at many levels, making it difficult to understand which factors contribute most to these health improvements. Conceptual frameworks provide a cognitive means of rendering order to these factors and how they interrelate to positively …

  • Birth registration coverage according to the sex of the head of household

    Open AccessAndrea Wendt, Franciele Hellwig et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Sex of the head of household was not consistently associated with BRC in the pooled analyses but noteworthy differences in different directions were found in specific countries. Formal and informal benefits to FHH (no male), as well as women's ability to allocate household resources to their children in FHH, may explain why this vulnerable group has managed to offset a potential disadvantage to their children