Cathy Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathy Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Walgreens (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4433-6385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender Relations and Environmental Change
In recent years, linkages between gender and the environment have become an important focus both of research and of development policy and practice. They figured strongly at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, 1992, and seem set to do so in the forthcoming Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At IDS, gender–environment relations have been a major theme of recent work, with the Environment Group linking into the Ins…
Empowering women and communities to promote universal health coverage in rural Zambia
From 2014 to 2016, we supported the national Safe Motherhood Action Group initiative in five rural districts of Zambia. An empowerment approach mobilised communities and built local capacity to take action in support of improved access to maternal and newborn health. The endline survey and a range of qualitative reviews showed significant differences in intervention communities in antenatal care attendance, skilled birth attendance, use of modern…
Increasing access to rural maternal health services in Zambia through demand-side interventions
This paper examines a demand-side intervention that significantly increased access to maternal health services in rural Zambia in a context where skilled birth attendance rates had been stagnant for over two decades. Aspects of the intervention design that were crucial to the programme's success were the participatory and adult learning-centred approach used to mobilise intervention communities, the use of a community volunteer model, and the des…
Knowledgeable antenatal care as a pathway to skilled delivery
The link between antenatal care (ANC) and facility delivery is a specific example of the effect of early medical contacts on later use of essential services. The role of ANC in improving maternal health remains unclear. High levels of ANC are reported in a number of countries where skilled delivery remains uncommon. ANC may influence the use of services by increasing willingness to use services and educating about maternal health. The objective o…
A training approach for community maternal health volunteers that builds sustainable capacity
This article examines a training approach for community health volunteers which increased access to maternal health services in rural communities in Zambia. The effectiveness of the training approach was evaluated in an operations research component. Skilled birth attendance rates increased by 63% from baseline over a two-year period in the intervention districts, out-performing increases recorded in control sites at statistically significant lev…
Early results of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health program, Northern Nigeria, 2009 to 2011
These results provide evidence that in the context of ongoing improvements to the primary health care system, the participatory and community-based interventions focusing on improved newborn and infant care were effective at changing infant care practices and outcomes in the intervention communities
Using community-based research to shape the design and delivery of maternal health services in Northern Nigeria
Maternal mortality ratios in northern Nigeria are among the worst in the world, over 1,000 per 100,000 live births in 2008, with a very low level and quality of maternity services. In 2009, we carried out a study of the reasons for low utilisation of antenatal and delivery care among women with recent pregnancies, and the socio-cultural beliefs and practices that influenced them. The study included a quantitative survey of 6,882 married women, 11…
Gender and Environmental History
While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed centre-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and 'women, environment and development'. Yet the latter's representations are highly problematic, both in simplifying and obscuring important relationships and processes, and in supporting potentially regressive policy agendas. The…
Integrated Water Resources Management
The concept of integrated water resources management (WRM) is currently high on the international policy making agenda
Gender and Environmental History
While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed centre-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and 'women, environment and development'. Yet the latter's representations are highly problematic, both in simplifying and obscuring important relationships and processes, and in supporting potentially regressive policy agendas. The…
Knowledgeable antenatal care as a pathway to skilled delivery
The link between antenatal care (ANC) and facility delivery is a specific example of the effect of early medical contacts on later use of essential services. The role of ANC in improving maternal health remains unclear. High levels of ANC are reported in a number of countries where skilled delivery remains uncommon. ANC may influence the use of services by increasing willingness to use services and educating about maternal health. The objective o…
Using community-based research to shape the design and delivery of maternal health services in Northern Nigeria
Maternal mortality ratios in northern Nigeria are among the worst in the world, over 1,000 per 100,000 live births in 2008, with a very low level and quality of maternity services. In 2009, we carried out a study of the reasons for low utilisation of antenatal and delivery care among women with recent pregnancies, and the socio-cultural beliefs and practices that influenced them. The study included a quantitative survey of 6,882 married women, 11…
Integrated Water Resources Management
The concept of integrated water resources management (WRM) is currently high on the international policy making agenda
A training approach for community maternal health volunteers that builds sustainable capacity
This article examines a training approach for community health volunteers which increased access to maternal health services in rural communities in Zambia. The effectiveness of the training approach was evaluated in an operations research component. Skilled birth attendance rates increased by 63% from baseline over a two-year period in the intervention districts, out-performing increases recorded in control sites at statistically significant lev…
Integrated Water Resources Management
The concept of integrated water resources management (WRM) is currently high on the international policy making agenda
Gender and Environmental History
While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed centre-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and 'women, environment and development'. Yet the latter's representations are highly problematic, both in simplifying and obscuring important relationships and processes, and in supporting potentially regressive policy agendas. The…
Using community-based research to shape the design and delivery of maternal health services in Northern Nigeria
Maternal mortality ratios in northern Nigeria are among the worst in the world, over 1,000 per 100,000 live births in 2008, with a very low level and quality of maternity services. In 2009, we carried out a study of the reasons for low utilisation of antenatal and delivery care among women with recent pregnancies, and the socio-cultural beliefs and practices that influenced them. The study included a quantitative survey of 6,882 married women, 11…
Early results of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health program, Northern Nigeria, 2009 to 2011
These results provide evidence that in the context of ongoing improvements to the primary health care system, the participatory and community-based interventions focusing on improved newborn and infant care were effective at changing infant care practices and outcomes in the intervention communities
Knowledgeable antenatal care as a pathway to skilled delivery
The link between antenatal care (ANC) and facility delivery is a specific example of the effect of early medical contacts on later use of essential services. The role of ANC in improving maternal health remains unclear. High levels of ANC are reported in a number of countries where skilled delivery remains uncommon. ANC may influence the use of services by increasing willingness to use services and educating about maternal health. The objective o…
A training approach for community maternal health volunteers that builds sustainable capacity
This article examines a training approach for community health volunteers which increased access to maternal health services in rural communities in Zambia. The effectiveness of the training approach was evaluated in an operations research component. Skilled birth attendance rates increased by 63% from baseline over a two-year period in the intervention districts, out-performing increases recorded in control sites at statistically significant lev…
Increasing access to rural maternal health services in Zambia through demand-side interventions
This paper examines a demand-side intervention that significantly increased access to maternal health services in rural Zambia in a context where skilled birth attendance rates had been stagnant for over two decades. Aspects of the intervention design that were crucial to the programme's success were the participatory and adult learning-centred approach used to mobilise intervention communities, the use of a community volunteer model, and the des…
Empowering women and communities to promote universal health coverage in rural Zambia
From 2014 to 2016, we supported the national Safe Motherhood Action Group initiative in five rural districts of Zambia. An empowerment approach mobilised communities and built local capacity to take action in support of improved access to maternal and newborn health. The endline survey and a range of qualitative reviews showed significant differences in intervention communities in antenatal care attendance, skilled birth attendance, use of modern…
Gender Relations and Environmental Change
In recent years, linkages between gender and the environment have become an important focus both of research and of development policy and practice. They figured strongly at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, 1992, and seem set to do so in the forthcoming Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At IDS, gender–environment relations have been a major theme of recent work, with the Environment Group linking into the Ins…
Economic growth (6 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Health services (4 works) · Population (4 works)