Isabelle L Lange
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 228636 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Isabelle L Lange |
| NOMBRES | Isabelle L |
| APELLIDO | Lange |
| FIRMA | LANGE I L |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8045-048X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Indicator menus
There is strong impetus for internationally standardized measurement for maternal and neonatal health (MNH) to facilitate global benchmarking and accountability. Recent funding cuts have sharpened debates about whose priorities should guide measurement and what role international-level actors should play. This qualitative study combined observations and 24 semi-structured interviews in 2023-2025 with experts across multilateral agencies, bilatera…
Coping with extreme heat in primary maternity care
Highlights: •Health workers deliver maternity care in conditions of extreme, escalating heat. •First empirical qualitative study in Africa to examine how staff navigate extreme heat in maternity wards. •First qualitative ethnography globally to apply Adaptive Thermal Comfort Theory to clinical labour. •Heat adaptation emerges as a collective, resource-dependent, institutional and material process. •Protecting frontline staff from extreme heat is …
Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum under heat strain
Extreme heat, intensified by climate change, is an escalating global health threat linked to preterm birth, stillbirth, hypertensive disorders, and low birth weight. Yet little is known about how pregnant and postpartum women in low-resource settings experience and adapt to heat as a lived condition. In sub-Saharan Africa, where livelihoods depend on outdoor labour and health systems remain fragile, women's thermal vulnerability is compounded by …
Through their lens
Rising global temperatures and heatwaves pose major health risks, particularly for pregnant women, infants and other vulnerable groups. Using Photovoice, we aimed to foreground how pregnant and postpartum women in an urban township in Tshwane, South Africa, experience and cope with heat stress. Fourteen women participated in two structured workshops held during the hot season (December 2023-January 2024). The first included reflective discussions…
Pathways of change for essential newborn care practices and health care seeking
In rural Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, access to quality care is difficult, home births are frequent, and neonatal mortality remains high. Peru has a large cadre of Community health workers (CHW), yet their potential is not harnessed. A recent outcome evaluation of a community-based intervention showed improvements in essential newborn care (ENC) for home births and small increases in facility births. To explain these findings, e…
Approaching the SDG targets with sustained political commitment
BACKGROUND: Between 2000 and 2017/2018, Morocco reduced its maternal mortality ratio by 68% and its neonatal mortality rate by 52%-a higher improvement than other North African countries. We conducted the Exemplars in Maternal and Neonatal Health study to systematically and comprehensively research factors associated with this rapid reduction in mortality over the past two decades. METHODS: The study was conducted from September 2020 to December …
Community preferred drug delivery approaches for pilot roll-out of a potential novel paediatric schistosomiasis treatment option in two endemic counties of Kenya
Treating preschool age children (PSAC) for schistosomiasis has remained a challenge due to lack of a pediatric formulation. In response to this unmet need, the Paediatric Praziquantel Consortium has developed a potential novel paediatric treatment option. In advance to its roll-out to follow regulatory response, we conducted a social science study to gather information on preferred drug delivery approaches to inform implementation. A cross-sectio…
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services
In 2017, in the middle of the armed conflict with the Taliban, the Ministry of Public Health decided that the Afghan health system needed a well-defined priority package of health services taking into account the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases and injuries and benefiting from the latest evidence published by DCP3. This leads to a 2-year process involving data analysis, modelling and national consultations, which produce this Integ…
The development of Afghanistan's Integrated Package of Essential Health Services
Health systems in fragile states need to respond to shifting demographics, burden of disease and socio-economic circumstances in the revision of their health service packages. This entails making difficult decisions about what is and is not included therein, especially in resource-constrained settings offering or striving for universal health coverage. In this paper we turn the lens on the 2017-2021 development of Afghanistan's Integrated Package…
Challenges and opportunities for infection prevention and control in hospitals in conflict-affected settings
Hospitals included in this study demonstrated how they overcame certain challenges in the face of limited resources and funding. These strategies present opportunities for learning and knowledge exchange across contexts, particularly in the face of the current global coronavirus pandemic. The findings are increasingly relevant today as they provide evidence of the fragility of IPC programmes in these settings. More research is required on tailori…
Being a midwife in West Africa
The Ambiguity Imperative
Global health programs are compelled to demonstrate impact on their target populations. We study an example of social franchising - a popular healthcare delivery model in low/middle-income countries - in the Ugandan private maternal health sector. The discrepancies between the program's official profile and its actual operation reveal the franchise responded to its beneficiaries, but in a way incoherent with typical evidence production on social …
Affective Routes of Healing
How equitable is social franchising? Case studies of three maternal healthcare franchises in Uganda and India
Substantial investments have been made in clinical social franchising to improve quality of care of private facilities in low- and middle-income countries but concerns have emerged that the benefits fail to reach poorer groups. We assessed the distribution of franchise utilization and content of care by socio-economic status (SES) in three maternal healthcare social franchises in Uganda and India (Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan). We surveyed 2179 wo…
To Heal the Body
Cost and impact of policies to remove and reduce fees for obstetric care in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Morocco
We conclude that the policies were effective in meeting financial protection goals and probably health and equity goals, at sustainable cost, but that a range of measures could increase their effectiveness and equity. These include broadening the exempted package (especially for those countries which focused on caesarean sections alone), better calibrated payments, clearer information on policies, better stewardship of the local health system to …
The costs of 'free
Holten, Lianne
Anthropos , Seite 700 - 701
The costs of 'free
How equitable is social franchising? Case studies of three maternal healthcare franchises in Uganda and India
Substantial investments have been made in clinical social franchising to improve quality of care of private facilities in low- and middle-income countries but concerns have emerged that the benefits fail to reach poorer groups. We assessed the distribution of franchise utilization and content of care by socio-economic status (SES) in three maternal healthcare social franchises in Uganda and India (Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan). We surveyed 2179 wo…
Holten, Lianne
Anthropos , Seite 700 - 701
To Heal the Body
Cost and impact of policies to remove and reduce fees for obstetric care in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Morocco
We conclude that the policies were effective in meeting financial protection goals and probably health and equity goals, at sustainable cost, but that a range of measures could increase their effectiveness and equity. These include broadening the exempted package (especially for those countries which focused on caesarean sections alone), better calibrated payments, clearer information on policies, better stewardship of the local health system to …
The costs of 'free
How equitable is social franchising? Case studies of three maternal healthcare franchises in Uganda and India
Substantial investments have been made in clinical social franchising to improve quality of care of private facilities in low- and middle-income countries but concerns have emerged that the benefits fail to reach poorer groups. We assessed the distribution of franchise utilization and content of care by socio-economic status (SES) in three maternal healthcare social franchises in Uganda and India (Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan). We surveyed 2179 wo…
Affective Routes of Healing
Challenges and opportunities for infection prevention and control in hospitals in conflict-affected settings
Hospitals included in this study demonstrated how they overcame certain challenges in the face of limited resources and funding. These strategies present opportunities for learning and knowledge exchange across contexts, particularly in the face of the current global coronavirus pandemic. The findings are increasingly relevant today as they provide evidence of the fragility of IPC programmes in these settings. More research is required on tailori…
Being a midwife in West Africa
The Ambiguity Imperative
Global health programs are compelled to demonstrate impact on their target populations. We study an example of social franchising - a popular healthcare delivery model in low/middle-income countries - in the Ugandan private maternal health sector. The discrepancies between the program's official profile and its actual operation reveal the franchise responded to its beneficiaries, but in a way incoherent with typical evidence production on social …
The development of Afghanistan's Integrated Package of Essential Health Services
Health systems in fragile states need to respond to shifting demographics, burden of disease and socio-economic circumstances in the revision of their health service packages. This entails making difficult decisions about what is and is not included therein, especially in resource-constrained settings offering or striving for universal health coverage. In this paper we turn the lens on the 2017-2021 development of Afghanistan's Integrated Package…
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services
In 2017, in the middle of the armed conflict with the Taliban, the Ministry of Public Health decided that the Afghan health system needed a well-defined priority package of health services taking into account the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases and injuries and benefiting from the latest evidence published by DCP3. This leads to a 2-year process involving data analysis, modelling and national consultations, which produce this Integ…
Approaching the SDG targets with sustained political commitment
BACKGROUND: Between 2000 and 2017/2018, Morocco reduced its maternal mortality ratio by 68% and its neonatal mortality rate by 52%-a higher improvement than other North African countries. We conducted the Exemplars in Maternal and Neonatal Health study to systematically and comprehensively research factors associated with this rapid reduction in mortality over the past two decades. METHODS: The study was conducted from September 2020 to December …
Community preferred drug delivery approaches for pilot roll-out of a potential novel paediatric schistosomiasis treatment option in two endemic counties of Kenya
Treating preschool age children (PSAC) for schistosomiasis has remained a challenge due to lack of a pediatric formulation. In response to this unmet need, the Paediatric Praziquantel Consortium has developed a potential novel paediatric treatment option. In advance to its roll-out to follow regulatory response, we conducted a social science study to gather information on preferred drug delivery approaches to inform implementation. A cross-sectio…
Indicator menus
There is strong impetus for internationally standardized measurement for maternal and neonatal health (MNH) to facilitate global benchmarking and accountability. Recent funding cuts have sharpened debates about whose priorities should guide measurement and what role international-level actors should play. This qualitative study combined observations and 24 semi-structured interviews in 2023-2025 with experts across multilateral agencies, bilatera…
Coping with extreme heat in primary maternity care
Highlights: •Health workers deliver maternity care in conditions of extreme, escalating heat. •First empirical qualitative study in Africa to examine how staff navigate extreme heat in maternity wards. •First qualitative ethnography globally to apply Adaptive Thermal Comfort Theory to clinical labour. •Heat adaptation emerges as a collective, resource-dependent, institutional and material process. •Protecting frontline staff from extreme heat is …
Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum under heat strain
Extreme heat, intensified by climate change, is an escalating global health threat linked to preterm birth, stillbirth, hypertensive disorders, and low birth weight. Yet little is known about how pregnant and postpartum women in low-resource settings experience and adapt to heat as a lived condition. In sub-Saharan Africa, where livelihoods depend on outdoor labour and health systems remain fragile, women's thermal vulnerability is compounded by …
Through their lens
Rising global temperatures and heatwaves pose major health risks, particularly for pregnant women, infants and other vulnerable groups. Using Photovoice, we aimed to foreground how pregnant and postpartum women in an urban township in Tshwane, South Africa, experience and cope with heat stress. Fourteen women participated in two structured workshops held during the hot season (December 2023-January 2024). The first included reflective discussions…
Pathways of change for essential newborn care practices and health care seeking
In rural Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, access to quality care is difficult, home births are frequent, and neonatal mortality remains high. Peru has a large cadre of Community health workers (CHW), yet their potential is not harnessed. A recent outcome evaluation of a community-based intervention showed improvements in essential newborn care (ENC) for home births and small increases in facility births. To explain these findings, e…
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