Debbie Bradshaw

Datos Biográficos

ID380825
NOMBREDebbie Bradshaw
NOMBRESDebbie
APELLIDOBradshaw
FIRMABRADSHAW D
AFILIACIONESSouth African Medical Research Council
ORCID0000-0002-3588-2184
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS23
TOTAL DE CITAS12
TOTAL COMO AUTOR23
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1988
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Multilevel Factors Influencing Linkage to HIV Care in a High HIV Prevalence District in South Africa

    Open AccessEdward Nicol, Wisdom Basera et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    Timely linkage to HIV care is essential for achieving South Africa’s treatment goals, yet significant gaps persist in the early stages of the HIV care continuum. This study examined multilevel factors influencing linkage to care in a high HIV-prevalence rural district. A prospective convergent mixed-methods cohort study was conducted over 21 months among 1,194 adults newly diagnosed with HIV across 18 facilities in KwaZulu-Natal. Quantitative ana…

  • Safety, effectiveness and immunogenicity of heterologous mRNA-1273 boost after prime with Ad26.COV2.S among healthcare workers in South Africa

    Open AccessNigel Garrett, Tarylee Reddy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Limited studies have been conducted on the safety and effectiveness of heterologous COVID-19 vaccine boosting in lower income settings, especially those with high-HIV prevalence., The Sisonke Heterologous mRNA-1273 boost after prime with Ad26.COV2.S (SHERPA) trial evaluated a mRNA-1273 boost after Ad26.COV2.S priming in South Africa. SHERPA was a single-arm, open-label, phase 3 study nested in the Sisonke implementation trial of 500000 healthcare…

  • Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study

    Open AccessMonique Maqungo, Nadine Nannan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA), though imperfect, serves as a vital tool to determine cause-of-death, particularly for out-of-facility deaths, but challenges persist in integrating VA into Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems. OBJECTIVE: To describe the challenges and successes of collecting a national sample of verbal autopsy interviews in South Africa to obtain the cause of death profile in 2017/18. METHODS: We recruited next of kin…

  • Injury mortality in South Africa

    Open AccessMegan Prinsloo, Shibe Mhlongo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Injuries, often preventable, prompted urgent action within the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to improve global health. South Africa (SA) has high rates of injury mortality, but accurate reporting of official national data is hindered by death misclassification. OBJECTIVE: Two nationally representative surveys for 2009 and 2017 are utilised to assess SA's progress towards SDG targets for violence …

  • Alcohol, Violence, and Injury-Induced Mortality

    Open AccessKai Barron, Charles D H Parry et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2024

    This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nationwide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14%. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behavior in society. Our resu…

  • Agreement between cause of death assignment by computer-coded verbal autopsy methods and physician coding of verbal autopsy interviews in South Africa

    Open AccessPam Groenewald, Jason R Thomas et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: The South African national cause of death validation (NCODV 2017/18) project collected a national sample of verbal autopsies (VA) with cause of death (COD) assignment by physician-coded VA (PCVA) and computer-coded VA (CCVA). OBJECTIVE: The performance of three CCVA algorithms (InterVA-5, InSilicoVA and Tariff 2.0) in assigning a COD was compared with PCVA (reference standard). METHODS: Seven performance metrics assessed individual an…

  • Enhancing linkage to HIV care in the “Universal Test and Treat” era

    Open AccessEdward Nicol, Ngcwalisa Jama et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Ending AIDS by 2030 would depend on how successful health systems are in linking people living with HIV (PLHIV) into care. The World Health Organization recommended the 'Universal Test and Treat' (UTT) strategy - initiating all individuals testing positive on antiretroviral therapy (ART) irrespective of their CD4 count and clinical staging. This study aimed to explore the enablers and barriers to linkage to HIV care among adults with a new HIV di…

  • Linkage to HIV Care and Early Retention in Care Rates in the Universal Test-and-Treat Era

    Open AccessEdward Nicol, Wisdom Basera et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2022

    HIV linkage, and retention are key weaknesses in South Africa's national antiretroviral therapy (ART) program, with the greatest loss of patients in the HIV treatment pathway occurring before ART initiation. This study investigated linkage-to and early-retention-in-care (LTRIC) rates among adults newly diagnosed with HIV in a high-HIV prevalent rural district. We conducted an observational prospective cohort study to investigate LTRIC rates for a…

  • Can non-fatal burden estimates from the Global Burden of Disease study be used locally? An investigation using models of stroke and diabetes for South Africa

    Open AccessVictoria Pillay‐van Wyk, Rifqah Abeeda Roomaney et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Background: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach estimates disease burden by combining fatal (years of life lost) and non-fatal burden prevalence-based years of life lived with disability (PYLDs) estimates. Although South Africa has data to estimate mortality, prevalence data to estimate non-fatal burden are sparse. PYLD estimates from the GBD study for South Africa can potentially be used. However, there is a divergence in mortality estim…

  • Is the routine health information system ready to support the planned national health insurance scheme in South Africa

    Open AccessEdward Nicol, Lyn A Hanmer et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Implementation of a National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa requires a reliable, standardized health information system that supports Diagnosis-Related Groupers for reimbursements and resource management. We assessed the quality of inpatient health records, the availability of standard discharge summaries and coded clinical data and the congruence between inpatient health records and discharge summaries in public-sector hospitals to suppo…

  • Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (Concord-3)

    Open AccessClaudia Allemani, Tomohiro Matsuda et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: In 2015, the second cycle of the CONCORD programme established global surveillance of cancer survival as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems and to inform global policy on cancer control. CONCORD-3 updates the worldwide surveillance of cancer survival to 2014. METHODS: CONCORD-3 includes individual records for 37·5 million patients diagnosed with cancer during the 15-year period 2000-14. Data were provided by 322 populatio…

  • Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012

    Open AccessVictoria Pillay-Van Wyk, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2016

    BACKGROUND: The poor health of South Africans is known to be associated with a quadruple disease burden. In the second National Burden of Disease (NBD) study, we aimed to analyse cause of death data for 1997-2012 and develop national, population group, and provincial estimates of the levels and causes of mortality. METHOD: We used underlying cause of death data from death notifications for 1997-2012 obtained from Statistics South Africa. These da…

  • Disability weights from a household survey in a low socio-economic setting

    Open AccessI Neethling, Jennifer Jelsma et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: The global burden of disease (GBD) 2010 study used a universal set of disability weights to estimate disability adjusted life years (DALYs) by country. However, it is not clear whether these weights can be applied universally in calculating DALYs to inform local decision-making. This study derived disability weights for a resource-constrained community in Cape Town, South Africa, and interrogated whether the GBD 2010 disability weight…

  • Urban–rural and gender differences in tobacco and alcohol use, diet and physical activity among young black South Africans between 1998 and 2003

    Open AccessNasheeta Peer, Debbie Bradshaw et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    BACKGROUND: Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) have increased in South Africa over the past 15 years. While these usually manifest during mid-to-late adulthood, the development of modifiable risk factors that contribute to NCDs are usually adopted early in life. OBJECTIVE: To describe the urban-rural and gender patterns of NCD risk factors in black adolescents and young adults (15- to 24-year-olds) from two South African Demographic and Hea…

  • Health in South Africa

    Open AccessBongani M Mayosi, Joy Elizabeth Lawn et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2012

  • Characteristics, availability and uses of vital registration and other mortality data sources in post-democracy South Africa

    Open AccessJané Joubert, Chalapati Rao et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2012

    The value of good-quality mortality data for public health is widely acknowledged. While effective civil registration systems remains the 'gold standard' source for continuous mortality measurement, less than 25% of deaths are registered in most African countries. Alternative data collection systems can provide mortality data to complement those from civil registration, given an understanding of data source characteristics and data quality. We ai…

  • Maternal mortality in South Africa

    Open AccessRob E Dorrington, Rob Dorrington et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2011Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

  • The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa

    Open AccessBongani M Mayosi, Alan J Flisher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2009

  • Sexual behaviour patterns in South Africa and their association with the spread of HIV

    Open AccessLeigh Johnson, Rob Dorrington et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2009Citada por: 5Referencias: 104

    This paper aims to quantify the effects of different types of sexual risk behaviour on the spread of HIV in South Africa. A mathematical model is developed to simulate changes in numbers of sexual partners, changes in marital status, changes in commerc

  • Levels and Differentials in Childhood Mortality in South Africa, 1977–1998

    Open AccessNadine Nannan, Ian M Timaeus et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2007

    This study uses the 1996 Census and the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to investigate the level of and trend in infant and child mortality and their covariates in South Africa. Census estimates of childhood mortality are higher than those from the DHS. Analysis suggests that the former overestimate mortality while the latter are probably slightly too low. Both inquiries document a reversal of the trend toward lower mortality in the 1990…

  • Tobacco attributable deaths in South Africa

    Freddy Sitas, Margaret Urban et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2004

    If smokers had the same death rate as non-smokers, 58% of lung cancer deaths, 37% of COPD deaths, 20% of tuberculosis deaths, and 23% of vascular deaths would have been avoided. About 8% of all adult deaths in South Africa (more than 20 000 deaths a year) were caused by smoking

  • Obesity in South Africa

    Open AccessThandi Puoane, Krisela Steyn et al.ARTICLEObesity Research2002

    Objectives: To ascertain the anthropometric profile and determinants of obesity in South Africans who participated in the Demographic and Health Survey in 1998. Research Methods and Procedures: A sample of 13,089 men and women (age, ≥15 years) were randomly selected and then stratified by province and urban and nonurban areas. Height, weight, mid‐upper arm circumference, and waist and hip circumference were measured. Body mass index (BMI) was use…

  • The distribution of health needs and services in south Africa

    Open AccessJ L Botha, Debbie Bradshaw et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1988Citada por: 6Referencias: 8