William T Story
Biographic Data
| ID | 165468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William T Story |
| GIVEN NAMES | William T |
| FAMILY NAME | Story |
| SIGNATURE | STORY W T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0229-966X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Feasibility of Problem Management Plus to Improve Refugee Psychological Support in the U.S. Midwest
Community-engaged approaches to addressing mental health concerns have reduced health inequities experienced by refugee communities. Problem Management Plus (PM+)—a brief psychological intervention developed by the World Health Organization—has shown effectiveness in improving mental health and well-being of adults experiencing distress. This paper documents lessons learned during the implementation of the first PM+ pilot program among refugee co…
A Case for Achieving Refugee Health Equity
In the context of rising global displacement and the politicization of humanitarian assistance, refugee health disparities are worsening due to trauma, stigma, and limited access to health and social services. Structural oppression, rooted in state policies and dominant nationalist narratives, perpetuates these inequities, which are often overlooked in mainstream health equity literature. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) offers a pro…
My Husband Is a ‘Mama’s Boy’”
Most male-engagement initiatives do not address the perceived benefits and risks that women may experience because of increased male participation in MNCH, especially in Kenya. The aim of this study, therefore, is to qualitatively assess how women perceive and experience increased male engagement in MNCH in western Kenya. Using a phenomenological approach, 53 women (35 mothers and 18 mothers-in-law) were purposively selected from seven communitie…
Development of a Postpartum Physical Activity Intervention after a Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy
Objectives: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy affect ̃16% of all pregnancies and is associated with a 2‐4‐fold greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although physical activity (PA) is a known modifiable risk factor for CVD, understanding of influences on postpartum PA after a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy is limited. We assessed PA determinants and desired intervention features of postpartum individuals after a hypertensive disorde…
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
Through increased theoretical and practical knowledge about important maternal and child health matters and through the social experience of obtaining this knowledge and sharing it with other community members, participation in the Care Group Approach empowered participants to make positive health behavior changes for themselves and for their children and families. This, in turn, led many participants to become more engaged in community activitie…
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
The Project achieved some notable improvements in women's decision-making autonomy and participation in community activities. These improvements often translated into making decisions to practice recommended health behaviors. Traditional cultural norms and the barriers to accessing needed health services are not easily overcome, even when empowerment strategies are effective
On learning about efforts to strengthen (and reduce harm to) systems for health
We comment on two retrospective, embedded case studies of systems effects of successive projects implemented by Save the Children (SC) previously published by Health Policy and Planning in 2021 (Sarriot et al., 2021; Story et al., 2021). As a health systems specialist (E.S.) and a case study methodologist (W.S.), our primary objective was to extract lessons from the case studies for the benefit of the agency’s health systems strengthening (HSS) s…
Audio Diaries
Previous studies have identified both physical and psychosocial forms of stress among newly married women due to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access. However, methodologies used to identify stress have relied on surveys and interviews, which have limitations for eliciting situated information regarding stress. Prior public health studies indicate that, together with other qualitative methods, audio diaries provide rich data se…
The role of integrated community case management projects in strengthening health systems
Integrated community case management (iCCM) has now been implemented at scale globally. Literature to-date has focused primarily on the effectiveness of iCCM and the systems conditions required to sustain iCCM. In this study, we sought to explore opportunities taken and lost for strengthening health systems through successive iCCM programmes. We employed a systematic, embedded, multiple case study design for three countries—Ethiopia, Malawi and M…
Does social capital increase healthcare financing's projection? Results from the rural household of Uttar Pradesh, India
In the absence of adequate social security, out-of-pocket health expenditure compels households to adopt coping strategies, such as utilizing savings, selling assets, or acquiring external financial support (EFS) by borrowing with interest. Households' probability of acquiring EFS and its amount (intensity) depends on its social capital - the nature of social relationships and resources embedded within social networks. This study examines the eff…
Understanding Rural Women’s Domestic Work Experiences (DWE) in Ibadan, Nigeria
Gender norms prescribe domestic labor as primarily a female's responsibility in developing countries. Many domestic tasks depend on access to water, so the physical, emotional, and time demands of domestic labor may be exacerbated for women living in water-insecure environments. We developed a set of domestic work experience (DWE) measures tailored to work in rural areas in developing countries, assessed rural Nigerian women's DWE, and examined r…
Health systems effects of successive emergency health and nutrition projects
Despite increasing attention to the concept of a humanitarian-development nexus in recent years, limited research is available to improve health systems strengthening practice within humanitarian programmes. We used an exploratory, systematic, embedded, multiple case study design to discern systems effects of successive Save the Children chronic emergency health and nutrition projects implemented in Sudan and Pakistan between 2011 and 2018. We us…
Community-based savings groups, women’s agency, and maternal health service utilisation
This study, using data collected as part of an ongoing programme evaluation, investigates whether participation in Saving Groups (SGs)-a community-owned microfinance intervention focused on poor households - is associated with maternal health service utilisation, and whether this association is mediated by women's agency - as measured by self-efficacy and decision-making autonomy. We compared maternal health service utilisation among SG members (…
Implementing Community‐Based Participatory Research with Communities Affected by Humanitarian Crises
Worldwide, over 70.8 million people are forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violation. In humanitarian crises, protection and the provision of basic needs are often prioritized. Research may be seen as opportunistic. However, without documenting and researching humanitarian responses, knowledge is not shared and does not accumulate, limiting the application of evidence‐based interven…
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia
Comparing the association between social capital and self-rated health in poor and affluent nations
Country context has been shown to influence the association between social capital and health; however, few studies have examined how the level of societal affluence affects the relationship between social capital and health. Drawing on the study of individual-level socioeconomic variation in the returns to social capital by Uphoff and colleagues (2013), we examine two possible explanations about the differential impact of social capital on healt…
Social capital and self-rated health
Institutionalizing community-focused maternal, newborn, and child health strategies to strengthen health systems
BACKGROUND: Stronger health systems, with an emphasis on community-based primary health care, are required to help accelerate the pace of ending preventable maternal and child deaths as well as contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The success of the SDGs will require unprecedented coordination across sectors, including partnerships between public, private, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). To date, l…
Household social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in child undernutrition in rural India
Assessing the Continuum of Care Pathway for Maternal Health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Validating the Measurement of Social Capital in Bangladesh
Despite the growing evidence linking social capital to improvements in health and health behaviors, reliable measures of social capital are lacking in low-income countries. To accurately measure social capital in new contexts, there is a need to validate social capital survey questions in each new cultural setting. In this article, we examine the content validity of the measurement of social capital in Bangladesh using qualitative methods. In Dec…
Social capital and the utilization of maternal and child health services in India
Couples' reports of household decision-making and the utilization of maternal health services in Bangladesh
Couples' reports of household decision-making and the utilization of maternal health services in Bangladesh
Social capital and self-rated health
Social capital and the utilization of maternal and child health services in India
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia
Household social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in child undernutrition in rural India
Validating the Measurement of Social Capital in Bangladesh
Despite the growing evidence linking social capital to improvements in health and health behaviors, reliable measures of social capital are lacking in low-income countries. To accurately measure social capital in new contexts, there is a need to validate social capital survey questions in each new cultural setting. In this article, we examine the content validity of the measurement of social capital in Bangladesh using qualitative methods. In Dec…
Implementing Community‐Based Participatory Research with Communities Affected by Humanitarian Crises
Worldwide, over 70.8 million people are forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violation. In humanitarian crises, protection and the provision of basic needs are often prioritized. Research may be seen as opportunistic. However, without documenting and researching humanitarian responses, knowledge is not shared and does not accumulate, limiting the application of evidence‐based interven…
Audio Diaries
Previous studies have identified both physical and psychosocial forms of stress among newly married women due to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access. However, methodologies used to identify stress have relied on surveys and interviews, which have limitations for eliciting situated information regarding stress. Prior public health studies indicate that, together with other qualitative methods, audio diaries provide rich data se…
Couples' reports of household decision-making and the utilization of maternal health services in Bangladesh
Social capital and the utilization of maternal and child health services in India
Assessing the Continuum of Care Pathway for Maternal Health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Validating the Measurement of Social Capital in Bangladesh
Despite the growing evidence linking social capital to improvements in health and health behaviors, reliable measures of social capital are lacking in low-income countries. To accurately measure social capital in new contexts, there is a need to validate social capital survey questions in each new cultural setting. In this article, we examine the content validity of the measurement of social capital in Bangladesh using qualitative methods. In Dec…
Institutionalizing community-focused maternal, newborn, and child health strategies to strengthen health systems
BACKGROUND: Stronger health systems, with an emphasis on community-based primary health care, are required to help accelerate the pace of ending preventable maternal and child deaths as well as contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The success of the SDGs will require unprecedented coordination across sectors, including partnerships between public, private, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). To date, l…
Household social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in child undernutrition in rural India
Social capital and self-rated health
Comparing the association between social capital and self-rated health in poor and affluent nations
Country context has been shown to influence the association between social capital and health; however, few studies have examined how the level of societal affluence affects the relationship between social capital and health. Drawing on the study of individual-level socioeconomic variation in the returns to social capital by Uphoff and colleagues (2013), we examine two possible explanations about the differential impact of social capital on healt…
Community-based savings groups, women’s agency, and maternal health service utilisation
This study, using data collected as part of an ongoing programme evaluation, investigates whether participation in Saving Groups (SGs)-a community-owned microfinance intervention focused on poor households - is associated with maternal health service utilisation, and whether this association is mediated by women's agency - as measured by self-efficacy and decision-making autonomy. We compared maternal health service utilisation among SG members (…
Implementing Community‐Based Participatory Research with Communities Affected by Humanitarian Crises
Worldwide, over 70.8 million people are forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violation. In humanitarian crises, protection and the provision of basic needs are often prioritized. Research may be seen as opportunistic. However, without documenting and researching humanitarian responses, knowledge is not shared and does not accumulate, limiting the application of evidence‐based interven…
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia
The role of integrated community case management projects in strengthening health systems
Integrated community case management (iCCM) has now been implemented at scale globally. Literature to-date has focused primarily on the effectiveness of iCCM and the systems conditions required to sustain iCCM. In this study, we sought to explore opportunities taken and lost for strengthening health systems through successive iCCM programmes. We employed a systematic, embedded, multiple case study design for three countries—Ethiopia, Malawi and M…
Does social capital increase healthcare financing's projection? Results from the rural household of Uttar Pradesh, India
In the absence of adequate social security, out-of-pocket health expenditure compels households to adopt coping strategies, such as utilizing savings, selling assets, or acquiring external financial support (EFS) by borrowing with interest. Households' probability of acquiring EFS and its amount (intensity) depends on its social capital - the nature of social relationships and resources embedded within social networks. This study examines the eff…
Understanding Rural Women’s Domestic Work Experiences (DWE) in Ibadan, Nigeria
Gender norms prescribe domestic labor as primarily a female's responsibility in developing countries. Many domestic tasks depend on access to water, so the physical, emotional, and time demands of domestic labor may be exacerbated for women living in water-insecure environments. We developed a set of domestic work experience (DWE) measures tailored to work in rural areas in developing countries, assessed rural Nigerian women's DWE, and examined r…
Health systems effects of successive emergency health and nutrition projects
Despite increasing attention to the concept of a humanitarian-development nexus in recent years, limited research is available to improve health systems strengthening practice within humanitarian programmes. We used an exploratory, systematic, embedded, multiple case study design to discern systems effects of successive Save the Children chronic emergency health and nutrition projects implemented in Sudan and Pakistan between 2011 and 2018. We us…
On learning about efforts to strengthen (and reduce harm to) systems for health
We comment on two retrospective, embedded case studies of systems effects of successive projects implemented by Save the Children (SC) previously published by Health Policy and Planning in 2021 (Sarriot et al., 2021; Story et al., 2021). As a health systems specialist (E.S.) and a case study methodologist (W.S.), our primary objective was to extract lessons from the case studies for the benefit of the agency’s health systems strengthening (HSS) s…
Audio Diaries
Previous studies have identified both physical and psychosocial forms of stress among newly married women due to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access. However, methodologies used to identify stress have relied on surveys and interviews, which have limitations for eliciting situated information regarding stress. Prior public health studies indicate that, together with other qualitative methods, audio diaries provide rich data se…
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
Through increased theoretical and practical knowledge about important maternal and child health matters and through the social experience of obtaining this knowledge and sharing it with other community members, participation in the Care Group Approach empowered participants to make positive health behavior changes for themselves and for their children and families. This, in turn, led many participants to become more engaged in community activitie…
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
The Project achieved some notable improvements in women's decision-making autonomy and participation in community activities. These improvements often translated into making decisions to practice recommended health behaviors. Traditional cultural norms and the barriers to accessing needed health services are not easily overcome, even when empowerment strategies are effective
Feasibility of Problem Management Plus to Improve Refugee Psychological Support in the U.S. Midwest
Community-engaged approaches to addressing mental health concerns have reduced health inequities experienced by refugee communities. Problem Management Plus (PM+)—a brief psychological intervention developed by the World Health Organization—has shown effectiveness in improving mental health and well-being of adults experiencing distress. This paper documents lessons learned during the implementation of the first PM+ pilot program among refugee co…
A Case for Achieving Refugee Health Equity
In the context of rising global displacement and the politicization of humanitarian assistance, refugee health disparities are worsening due to trauma, stigma, and limited access to health and social services. Structural oppression, rooted in state policies and dominant nationalist narratives, perpetuates these inequities, which are often overlooked in mainstream health equity literature. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) offers a pro…
My Husband Is a ‘Mama’s Boy’”
Most male-engagement initiatives do not address the perceived benefits and risks that women may experience because of increased male participation in MNCH, especially in Kenya. The aim of this study, therefore, is to qualitatively assess how women perceive and experience increased male engagement in MNCH in western Kenya. Using a phenomenological approach, 53 women (35 mothers and 18 mothers-in-law) were purposively selected from seven communitie…
Development of a Postpartum Physical Activity Intervention after a Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy
Objectives: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy affect ̃16% of all pregnancies and is associated with a 2‐4‐fold greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although physical activity (PA) is a known modifiable risk factor for CVD, understanding of influences on postpartum PA after a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy is limited. We assessed PA determinants and desired intervention features of postpartum individuals after a hypertensive disorde…
Medicine (16 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Population (8 works)