Sarah Wood Palla

Datos Biográficos

ID1732302
NOMBRESarah Wood Palla
NOMBRESSarah Wood
APELLIDOPalla
FIRMAPALLA S W
AFILIACIONESYale University
ORCID0000-0002-9719-6278
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS14
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H2

  • The political economy of financing traditional vaccines and vitamin A supplements in six African countries

    Open AccessJustice Nonvignon, Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    Vaccines and vitamin A supplementation (VAS) are financed by donors in several countries, indicating that challenges remain with achieving sustainable government financing of these critical health commodities. This qualitative study aimed to explore political economy variables of actors’ interests, roles, power and commitment to ensure government financing of vaccines and VAS. A total of 77 interviews were conducted in Burundi, Comoros, Ethiopia,…

  • Effects of donor proliferation in development aid for health on health program performance

    Open AccessSarah Wood Palla, Sarah Wood Pallas et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Citada por: 2Referencias: 44

  • Does donor proliferation in development aid for health affect health service delivery and population health? Cross-country regression analysis from 1995 to 2010

    Open AccessSarah Wood Palla, Sarah Wood Pallas et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Referencias: 22

    BACKGROUND: Previous literature suggests that increasing numbers of development aid donors can reduce aid effectiveness but this has not been tested in the health sector, which has experienced substantial recent growth in aid volume and number of donors. METHODS: Based on annual data for 1995-2010 on 139 low- and middle-income countries that received health sector aid from donors reporting to the OECD's Creditor Reporting System, the study used t…

  • How Connecticut Health Directors Deal With Public Health Budget Cuts at the Local Level

    Margaret L Prust, Kathleen Clark et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015Referencias: 13

    Objectives. We investigated the perspectives of local health jurisdiction (LHJ) directors on coping mechanisms used to respond to budget reductions and constraints on their decision-making. Methods. We conducted in-depth interviews with 17 LHJ directors. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using the constant comparative method. Results. LHJ directors use a range of coping mechanisms, including identifying alternative revenue…

  • The changing donor landscape of health sector aid to Vietnam

    Open AccessSarah Wood Palla, Sarah Wood Pallas et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Citada por: 4Referencias: 16

  • Community Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Sarah Wood Palla, Sarah Wood Pallas et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Citada por: 8Referencias: 32

    Objectives. We sought to provide a systematic review of the determinants of success in scaling up and sustaining community health worker (CHW) programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Methods. We searched 11 electronic databases for academic literature published through December 2010 (n = 603 articles). Two independent reviewers applied exclusion criteria to identify articles that provided empirical evidence about the scale-up or sus…

  • Individual and community level socioeconomic inequalities in contraceptive use in 10 Newly Independent States

    Open AccessT Janevic, Sarah Wood Palla et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2012

    Community-level socioeconomic inequalities in MCU were most pronounced in Central Asian countries, whereas individual-level socioeconomic inequalities in MCU were most pronounced in the Caucasus. It is important to consider multilevel contextual determinants of modern contraceptive use in the development of reproductive health and family planning programs