Abigail Colson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1728199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Colson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Colson |
| SIGNATURE | COLSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3241-5855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Which good practice exists for policymaking under uncertainty? An interdisciplinary review with relevance for health technology assessment (HTA)
Appropriate policymaking under uncertainty can lead to better decisions around how constrained resources are used. Although approaches from the technical sciences can provide robust, generalisable uncertainty estimations, they cannot account for the varying social, economic, and cultural contexts in which policies are made and implemented. We evaluated current health technology assessment (HTA) practice, finding limited consideration of social sc…
Developing a theory of change methodology to support the evaluation of place-based systems change interventions to support child and adolescent mental health and well-being
Over the past few years, levels of mental health problems among children and adolescents have risen alongside an increased demand for services, which has driven the demand for a transformative systems change in how child and adolescent mental health services are delivered. Theory of change methodology is a valuable approach for advancing systems change. This article describes the theory of change process to evaluate a strategic partnership approa…
Optimal subscription models to pay for antibiotics
Health systems, population and patient challenges for achieving universal health coverage for hypertension in Ghana
Ghana has signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), ensuring that all individuals receive the health care they require without financial hardship. Achieving that goal is a difficult task in any setting. The challenges are further exacerbated by a changing disease landscape, as the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing and creating a dual burden along with infectious…
Fairer financing of vaccines in a world living with Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine and campaign-based vaccination, potentially increasing the future vaccine-preventable disease burden and threatening to overwhelm health systems.\n\n- Vaccine-preventable diseases are transboundary problems that require global cooperation to achieve the best outcomes.\n\n- Investments, predominantly by rich countries—in effect transfers to poor countries—are required as part of the financing solution. T…
Health and economic benefits of scaling up a home-based neonatal care package in rural India
Approximately 900 000 newborn children die every year in India, accounting for 28% of neonatal deaths globally. In 2011, India introduced a home-based newborn care (HBNC) package to be delivered by community health workers across rural areas. We estimate the disease and economic burden that could be averted by scaling up the HBNC in rural India using IndiaSim, an agent-based simulation model, to examine two interventions. In the first interventio…
Reply to comment on “Suburban watershed nitrogen retention
We reply to a comment on our recent structured expert judgment analysis of stormwater nitrogen retention in suburban watersheds. Low relief, permeable soils, a dynamic stream channel, and subsurface flows characterize many lowland Coastal Plain watersheds. These features result in unique catchment hydrology, limit the precision of streamflow measurements, and challenge the assumptions for calculating runoff from rainfall and catchment area. We re…
Suburban watershed nitrogen retention
Excess nitrogen (N) is a primary driver of freshwater and coastal eutrophication globally, and urban stormwater is a rapidly growing source of N pollution. Stormwater best management practices (BMPs) are used widely to remove excess N from runoff in urban and suburban areas, and are expected to perform under a wide variety of environmental conditions. Yet the capacity of BMPs to retain excess N varies; and both the variation and the drivers there…
Developing a theory of change methodology to support the evaluation of place-based systems change interventions to support child and adolescent mental health and well-being
Over the past few years, levels of mental health problems among children and adolescents have risen alongside an increased demand for services, which has driven the demand for a transformative systems change in how child and adolescent mental health services are delivered. Theory of change methodology is a valuable approach for advancing systems change. This article describes the theory of change process to evaluate a strategic partnership approa…
Health and economic benefits of scaling up a home-based neonatal care package in rural India
Approximately 900 000 newborn children die every year in India, accounting for 28% of neonatal deaths globally. In 2011, India introduced a home-based newborn care (HBNC) package to be delivered by community health workers across rural areas. We estimate the disease and economic burden that could be averted by scaling up the HBNC in rural India using IndiaSim, an agent-based simulation model, to examine two interventions. In the first interventio…
Reply to comment on “Suburban watershed nitrogen retention
We reply to a comment on our recent structured expert judgment analysis of stormwater nitrogen retention in suburban watersheds. Low relief, permeable soils, a dynamic stream channel, and subsurface flows characterize many lowland Coastal Plain watersheds. These features result in unique catchment hydrology, limit the precision of streamflow measurements, and challenge the assumptions for calculating runoff from rainfall and catchment area. We re…
Suburban watershed nitrogen retention
Excess nitrogen (N) is a primary driver of freshwater and coastal eutrophication globally, and urban stormwater is a rapidly growing source of N pollution. Stormwater best management practices (BMPs) are used widely to remove excess N from runoff in urban and suburban areas, and are expected to perform under a wide variety of environmental conditions. Yet the capacity of BMPs to retain excess N varies; and both the variation and the drivers there…
Health and economic benefits of scaling up a home-based neonatal care package in rural India
Approximately 900 000 newborn children die every year in India, accounting for 28% of neonatal deaths globally. In 2011, India introduced a home-based newborn care (HBNC) package to be delivered by community health workers across rural areas. We estimate the disease and economic burden that could be averted by scaling up the HBNC in rural India using IndiaSim, an agent-based simulation model, to examine two interventions. In the first interventio…
Fairer financing of vaccines in a world living with Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine and campaign-based vaccination, potentially increasing the future vaccine-preventable disease burden and threatening to overwhelm health systems.\n\n- Vaccine-preventable diseases are transboundary problems that require global cooperation to achieve the best outcomes.\n\n- Investments, predominantly by rich countries—in effect transfers to poor countries—are required as part of the financing solution. T…
Health systems, population and patient challenges for achieving universal health coverage for hypertension in Ghana
Ghana has signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), ensuring that all individuals receive the health care they require without financial hardship. Achieving that goal is a difficult task in any setting. The challenges are further exacerbated by a changing disease landscape, as the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing and creating a dual burden along with infectious…
Developing a theory of change methodology to support the evaluation of place-based systems change interventions to support child and adolescent mental health and well-being
Over the past few years, levels of mental health problems among children and adolescents have risen alongside an increased demand for services, which has driven the demand for a transformative systems change in how child and adolescent mental health services are delivered. Theory of change methodology is a valuable approach for advancing systems change. This article describes the theory of change process to evaluate a strategic partnership approa…
Optimal subscription models to pay for antibiotics
Which good practice exists for policymaking under uncertainty? An interdisciplinary review with relevance for health technology assessment (HTA)
Appropriate policymaking under uncertainty can lead to better decisions around how constrained resources are used. Although approaches from the technical sciences can provide robust, generalisable uncertainty estimations, they cannot account for the varying social, economic, and cultural contexts in which policies are made and implemented. We evaluated current health technology assessment (HTA) practice, finding limited consideration of social sc…
Economic growth (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychological intervention (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental Science (2 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (2 works)