Ellen Van De Poel

Biographic Data

ID1633171
NAMEEllen Van De Poel
GIVEN NAMESEllen
FAMILY NAMEVan De Poel
SIGNATUREVAN DE POEL E
AFFILIATIONSErasmus University Rotterdam
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS121
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX5

  • What explains the fall in child stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessLeander R Buisman, Ellen Van De Poel et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2019

    There have been steep falls in rates of child stunting in much of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using Demographic and Health Survey data, we document significant reductions in stunting in seven SSA countries in the period 2005-2014. For each country, we distinguish potential determinants that move in a direction consistent with having contributed to the reduction in stunting from those that do not. We then decompose the change in stunting and in prox…

  • How Far Does a Big Push Really Push? Long-Term Effects of an Asset Transfer Program on Employment Trajectories

    Farzana A Misha, Farzana Misha et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2019References: 19

    BRAC launched its Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in 2002 to address ultrapoverty in Bangladesh using an asset transfer approach combined with multifaceted training over a 2-year period. However, evidence of long-term employment trajectories is limited, and it is crucial to understand whether the program truly has a transformative long-term income effect. We evaluate the long-term impact…

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in newborn care during facility and home deliveries

    Open AccessErik de Jonge, Kishwar Azad et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2018

    Socioeconomic inequalities in facility care greatly contribute to inequalities in newborn care. Improving newborn care during home deliveries and improving access to facility care are a priority for addressing inequalities in newborn care and newborn mortality

  • Voluntary health insurance in Nigeria

    Open AccessIgna Bonfrer, Ellen Van De Poel et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Cited by: 4References: 21

  • How equitable is the uptake of conditional cash transfers for maternity care in India? Evidence from the Janani Suraksha Yojana scheme in Odisha and Jharkhand

    Open AccessNattawut Thongkong, Ellen Van De Poel et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2017

    JSY benefits were not equally distributed, favouring wealthier groups. These inequalities in turn reflected pro-rich inequalities in the institutional delivery. The JSY scheme is currently not sufficient to close the poor-rich gap in institutional delivery rate. Important barriers to institutional delivery remain to be addressed and more support is needed for low performing districts and states

  • Did contracting effect the use of primary health care units in Pakistan

    Open AccessMuhammad Ashar Malik, Ellen Van De Poel et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017References: 11

    For many years, Pakistan has had a wide network of Basic Health Units spread across the country, but their utilization by the population in rural and peri-urban areas has remained low. As of 2004, in an attempt to improve the utilization and performance of these public primary healthcare facilities, the government has gradually started contracting-in intergovernmental organizations to manage these BHUs. Using five nationally representative househ…

  • Does the distribution of healthcare utilization match needs in Africa

    Open AccessIgna Bonfrer, Ellen Van De Poel et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2014Cited by: 7References: 25

    An equitable distribution of healthcare use, distributed according to people's needs instead of ability to pay, is an important goal featuring on many health policy agendas worldwide. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which this principle is violated across socio-economic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We examine cross-country comparative micro-data from 18 SSA countries and find that considerable inequalities in health…

  • The effects of performance incentives on the utilization and quality of maternal and child care in Burundi

    Open AccessIgna Bonfrer, Ellen Van De Poel et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2014Cited by: 12References: 18

  • Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China

    Open AccessEllen Van De Poel, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2009

  • Decomposing malnutrition inequalities between Scheduled Castes and Tribes and the remaining Indian population

    Ellen Van De Poel, Niko SpeybroeckARTICLEEthnicity and Health2009Cited by: 19References: 8

    The use of Oaxaca type decomposition can be very useful when studying ethnic inequalities in health as it explicitly allows for discriminatory or behavioral effects. The results did not point to discrimination against ST/SC regarding health care or education. However, in the quest to increase health care use and education among ST/SC, policy makers will have to take into account all the barriers to these services, including those related to cultu…

  • What explains the rural-urban gap in infant mortality

    Open AccessEllen Van De Poel, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEDemography2009Cited by: 16References: 45

    The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained by using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the contribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Central and West sub-Saharan Africa, we find that differences in the distributions of factors that determine mortality-not differences in their effects-explain alm…

  • Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries

    Open AccessEllen Van De PoelARTICLEBulletin of the World Health…2008

  • Malnutrition and the disproportional burden on the poor

    Open AccessEllen Van De Poel, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2007

    Child malnutrition in Ghana is a multisectoral problem. The factors associated with average malnutrition rates are not necessarily the same as those associated with socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition

  • Are urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries

    Open AccessEllen Van De Poel, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2007Cited by: 63References: 33