Zoë Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 380836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoë Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoë |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1533-6618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 43 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mapping social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution on the environment and on people. The sustainable development goals (SDGs), though seeing trade as a means to support their achievement, recognise the need to address potential negative social and environmental impacts. It is theref…
Evaluating the Contribution of Complex International Research-for-Development Programmes to the Sustainable Development Goals
While evaluation of research-to-policy projects is a fundamental aspect of measuring the impact of new knowledge, limited studies have examined evaluation methods in such projects, as well as how the evaluation can generate learning to facilitate the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study conducted a systematic literature review and found that the most commonly used methods for SDG contribution evaluation were Analy…
A framework to understand the social impacts of agricultural trade
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution. Previous frameworks have primarily focused on trade effects on environmental conditions in production regions, as well as economic growth and food security. Instead, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of…
Surrogate decision-making’ in India for women competent to consent and choose during childbirth
In a postcolonial, deeply patriarchal culture, decisions are often made for Indian women about every aspect of their life – beginning with whether they will be allowed to be born. This is followed by every life decision, including education and marriage. A ‘surrogate decision-maker’ is a guardian who decides for an adult incapable of making their own decisions due to a mental health condition, or as a substitute based on a patient’s stated or pre…
Estimating uncertainty in geospatial modelling at multiple spatial resolutions
Visualising maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes at fine spatial resolutions is crucial to ensuring the most vulnerable women and children are not left behind in improving health. Disaggregated data on life-saving MNH interventions remain difficult to obtain, however, necessitating the use of Bayesian geostatistical models to map outcomes at small geographical areas. While these methods have improved model parameter estimates and precision …
Temporal trends in spatial inequalities of maternal and newborn health services among four east African countries, 1999–2015
We found that while the region is generally making progress in reducing spatial gaps across districts, improvement in PNC coverage has stagnated, and should be monitored closely over the coming decades. This study is the first to report temporal trends in district-level estimates in MNH services across the EAC region, and these findings establish an important baseline of evidence for the Sustainable Development Goal era
Food and nutrition security trends and challenges in the Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) delta
The population of the Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) delta is highly vulnerable to food insecurity and malnutrition due to the specific environmental, climatic and human development factors affecting agricultural production and fisheries. To better understand the impacts of climate and environmental change on food security and nutrition in this delta, this study combines spatially explicit data from the 2007 and 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and H…
Unravelling the association between the impact of natural hazards and household poverty
Quality maternity care for every woman, everywhere
Subnational variation for care at birth in Tanzania
No region meets the benchmarks for the four health systems building blocks including health finance, health workforce, health facilities, and commodities. Strategies for addressing health system inequities, including overall increases in health expenditure, are needed in rural populations and areas of highest unmet need for family planning to improve coverage of care at birth for rural women in Tanzania
Countdown to 2015 country case studies
These are the first HSP tools using mixed methods to systematically analyse and describe RMNCH changes within and across countries, important in informing accelerated progress for ending preventable maternal, newborn and child mortality in the post-2015 era
Catalyzing action towards the sustainability of deltas
Deltaic systems are among the most dynamic and productive environments on Earth and many have a high population density. Deltas play a central role in food and water security but are increasingly facing hazards such as submergence, riverine and coastal flooding, and coastal erosion. This paper synthesizes efforts of the Belmont Forum Deltas project, an international network of interdisciplinary research collaboration with focal areas in the Mekon…
Evolutionary social and biogeophysical changes in the Amazon, Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna and Mekong deltas
Sustainable deltas
Population dynamics, delta vulnerability and environmental change
Tropical delta regions are at risk of multiple threats including relative sea level rise and human alterations, making them more and more vulnerable to extreme floods, storms, surges, salinity intrusion, and other hazards which could also increase in magnitude and frequency with a changing climate. Given the environmental vulnerability of tropical deltas, understanding the interlinkages between population dynamics and environmental change in thes…
Soil salinity, household wealth and food insecurity in tropical deltas
As a creeping process, salinisation represents a significant long-term environmental risk in coastal and deltaic environments. Excess soil salinity may exacerbate existing risks of food insecurity in densely populated tropical deltas, which is likely to have a negative effect on human and ecological sustainability of these regions and beyond. This study focuses on the coastal regions of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh, and uses data fr…
Maternal and Infant Deaths
Investigating the role of health care at birth on inequalities in neonatal survival
In Bangladesh babies from lower socio-economic groups and particularly those in rural areas have very poor outcomes if born in a facility. This suggests poorer, rural and less educated women are failing to obtain the timely access to quality maternal health care services needed to improve newborn outcomes
Geographical access to care at birth in Ghana
Detailed data assembly combined with geospatial modelling can provide nation-wide audits of geographical access to care at birth to support systemic maternal health planning, human resource deployment, and strategic targeting. Current international benchmarks of maternal health care provision are inadequate for these purposes because they fail to take account of the location and accessibility of services relative to the women they serve
Estimating unmet need for contraception by district within Ghana
The importance of meeting the unmet need for contraception is nowhere more urgent than in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, where the fertility decline is stalling and total unmet need exceeds 30 per cent among married women. In Ghana, where fertility levels vary considerably, demographic information at sub-national level is essential for building effective family planning programmes. We used small-area estimation techniques, linking data from…
Examining the “Urban Advantage” in Maternal Health Care in Developing Countries
The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges
Does early childbearing and a sterilization-focused family planning programme in India fuel population growth
Recent stagnation in the reduction of infant mortality in India can arguably be attributed to early child bearing practices and the lack of progress in lengthening birth intervals. Meanwhile, family planning efforts have been particularly successful in
Community factors affecting rising caesarean section rates in developing countries
Applying a framework for assessing the quality of maternal health services in urban India
Going to scale with professional skilled care
Gender, family, and the nutritional status of children in three culturally contrasting states of India
Applying a framework for assessing the quality of maternal health services in urban India
Community factors affecting rising caesarean section rates in developing countries
A tale of two continents
Soil salinity, household wealth and food insecurity in tropical deltas
As a creeping process, salinisation represents a significant long-term environmental risk in coastal and deltaic environments. Excess soil salinity may exacerbate existing risks of food insecurity in densely populated tropical deltas, which is likely to have a negative effect on human and ecological sustainability of these regions and beyond. This study focuses on the coastal regions of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh, and uses data fr…
Marriage Customs among the Barolong
Opening ParagraphThe Barolong belong to the Western cluster of the Sotho group of the Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa. The Western Sotho, who are commonly called the Tswana, are scattered over a considerable portion of South Africa, including the whole of Bechuanaland Protectorate, the portion of the Cape Province known as British Bechuanaland, the western Transvaal and a portion of the Orange Free State. Although the Barolong are to be fou…
Heterogeneity of child nutritional status between households
Using cross-sectional data from Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, a multilevel analysis was performed to determine the extent of correlation of nutritional status between children in the same family and geographical area. Weight-for-age z-scores were used as a measure of nutritional status for children up to three years of age. The percentage of children who were under-weight ranged from 16 in Zimbabwe up to 36 in Nigeria. T…
Population dynamics, delta vulnerability and environmental change
Tropical delta regions are at risk of multiple threats including relative sea level rise and human alterations, making them more and more vulnerable to extreme floods, storms, surges, salinity intrusion, and other hazards which could also increase in magnitude and frequency with a changing climate. Given the environmental vulnerability of tropical deltas, understanding the interlinkages between population dynamics and environmental change in thes…
Mapping social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution on the environment and on people. The sustainable development goals (SDGs), though seeing trade as a means to support their achievement, recognise the need to address potential negative social and environmental impacts. It is theref…
A framework to understand the social impacts of agricultural trade
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution. Previous frameworks have primarily focused on trade effects on environmental conditions in production regions, as well as economic growth and food security. Instead, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of…
Does early childbearing and a sterilization-focused family planning programme in India fuel population growth
Recent stagnation in the reduction of infant mortality in India can arguably be attributed to early child bearing practices and the lack of progress in lengthening birth intervals. Meanwhile, family planning efforts have been particularly successful in
New Age' Travellers, Urban Slum Dwellers, Aborigines and Drug Users
Voyageurs "New Age", habitants de bidonvilles. Aborigènes et toxicomanes - Expériences dans la collecte de données sensibles dans des communautés marginalisées. Cet articles réunit des thèmes communs d'expériences de collecte de données dans deux recherches en cours. Ces projets veulent accroitre la compréhension des comportements et des attitudes dans des communautés marginalisées et touchent des problèmes sensibles: l'un concernant la santé sex…
Unravelling the association between the impact of natural hazards and household poverty
Catalyzing action towards the sustainability of deltas
Deltaic systems are among the most dynamic and productive environments on Earth and many have a high population density. Deltas play a central role in food and water security but are increasingly facing hazards such as submergence, riverine and coastal flooding, and coastal erosion. This paper synthesizes efforts of the Belmont Forum Deltas project, an international network of interdisciplinary research collaboration with focal areas in the Mekon…
Evolutionary social and biogeophysical changes in the Amazon, Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna and Mekong deltas
Evaluating the Contribution of Complex International Research-for-Development Programmes to the Sustainable Development Goals
While evaluation of research-to-policy projects is a fundamental aspect of measuring the impact of new knowledge, limited studies have examined evaluation methods in such projects, as well as how the evaluation can generate learning to facilitate the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study conducted a systematic literature review and found that the most commonly used methods for SDG contribution evaluation were Analy…
Surrogate decision-making’ in India for women competent to consent and choose during childbirth
In a postcolonial, deeply patriarchal culture, decisions are often made for Indian women about every aspect of their life – beginning with whether they will be allowed to be born. This is followed by every life decision, including education and marriage. A ‘surrogate decision-maker’ is a guardian who decides for an adult incapable of making their own decisions due to a mental health condition, or as a substitute based on a patient’s stated or pre…
Sustainable deltas
Estimating unmet need for contraception by district within Ghana
The importance of meeting the unmet need for contraception is nowhere more urgent than in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, where the fertility decline is stalling and total unmet need exceeds 30 per cent among married women. In Ghana, where fertility levels vary considerably, demographic information at sub-national level is essential for building effective family planning programmes. We used small-area estimation techniques, linking data from…
Freedom for My People; The Autobiography of Z. K. Matthews
An African View of Indirect Rule in Africa
THERE is perhaps no administrative policy in Africa which arouses so little enthusiasm among Africans, especially educated Africans, as that of Indirect Rule. This attitude causes no little surprise and perhaps irritation among those who regard this policy as the high-water mark of the genius of British Administration in that it is based upon that common sense which recognises the fact that circumstances alter cases, that constant trial-and-error…
The Tribal Spirit Among Educated South Africans
The Tribal Spirit Among Educated South Africans
An African View of Indirect Rule in Africa
THERE is perhaps no administrative policy in Africa which arouses so little enthusiasm among Africans, especially educated Africans, as that of Indirect Rule. This attitude causes no little surprise and perhaps irritation among those who regard this policy as the high-water mark of the genius of British Administration in that it is based upon that common sense which recognises the fact that circumstances alter cases, that constant trial-and-error…
Marriage Customs among the Barolong
Opening ParagraphThe Barolong belong to the Western cluster of the Sotho group of the Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa. The Western Sotho, who are commonly called the Tswana, are scattered over a considerable portion of South Africa, including the whole of Bechuanaland Protectorate, the portion of the Cape Province known as British Bechuanaland, the western Transvaal and a portion of the Orange Free State. Although the Barolong are to be fou…
The African Response to Racial Laws
Responsible Government in a Revolutionary Age
Two South African Autobiographies
Freedom for My People; The Autobiography of Z. K. Matthews
Child Immunisation in Ghana
The data from the Demographic and Health Survey conducted in Ghana in 1988 are used to identify determinants of immunisation uptake for children under 5 years. The logistic binomial analysis shows that socioeconomic factors are significant, especially women's education and region, and that the type of prenatal care received by the mother is also important. There is a strong familial correlation of vaccination behaviours, and there is also cluster…
New Age' Travellers, Urban Slum Dwellers, Aborigines and Drug Users
Voyageurs "New Age", habitants de bidonvilles. Aborigènes et toxicomanes - Expériences dans la collecte de données sensibles dans des communautés marginalisées. Cet articles réunit des thèmes communs d'expériences de collecte de données dans deux recherches en cours. Ces projets veulent accroitre la compréhension des comportements et des attitudes dans des communautés marginalisées et touchent des problèmes sensibles: l'un concernant la santé sex…
Heterogeneity of child nutritional status between households
Using cross-sectional data from Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, a multilevel analysis was performed to determine the extent of correlation of nutritional status between children in the same family and geographical area. Weight-for-age z-scores were used as a measure of nutritional status for children up to three years of age. The percentage of children who were under-weight ranged from 16 in Zimbabwe up to 36 in Nigeria. T…
Understanding the sex ratio in India
The highly masculine sex ratio in India has increased substantially in the twentieth century, in contrast to most other countries in the world. Competing arguments alternatively posit underenumeration, highly masculine sex ratios at birth, or excess female mortality throughout the life course as the factors underlying the level of the overall sex ratio; these arguments have not been resolved. Based on population projections that simulate populati…
Understanding the Sex Ratio in India
The highly masculine sex ratio in India has increased substantially in the twentieth century, in contrast to most other countries in the world. Competing arguments alternatively posit underenumeration, highly masculine sex ratios at birth, or excess female mortality throughout the life course as the factors underlying the level of the overall sex ratio; these arguments have not been resolved. Based on population projections that simulate populati…
Infant and Child Mortality in Three Culturally Contrasting States of India
Using cross-sectional, individual-level survey data from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh collected under the Indian National Family Health Survey programme of 1992–93, statistical modelling was used to analyse the impact of a range of variables on the survival status of children during their first 2 years of life. Attention was focused on the potential impact of the mother’s autonomy. The strongest predictors of mortality were demograph…
Gender, family, and the nutritional status of children in three culturally contrasting states of India
The Impact of Rural–urban Migration on Under-Two Mortality in India
This paper examines the impact of rural–urban migration on under-two mortality in India, using data from the 1992/93 Indian National Family Health Survey. Multilevel logistic models are fitted for mortality in three age groups: neonatal, early post-neonatal, and late post-neonatal and toddler. Migration status was not a significant determinant of mortality in any of the three age groups. Further analysis shows that a relationship between migratio…
A tale of two continents
Birth Rights and Rituals in Rural South India
Maternal morbidity and mortality are high in the Indian context, but the majority of maternal deaths could be avoided by prompt and effective access to intrapartum care (WHO, 1999). Understanding the care seeking responses to intrapartum morbidities is crucial if maternal health is to be effectively improved, and maternal mortality reduced. This paper presents the results of a prospective study of 388 women followed through delivery and tradition…
Diversity in Family Planning Use Among Ethnic Groups in Guatemala
This study investigates the ethnic differentials in contraceptive use in the north-eastern Ch’orti area of Guatemala, a region dominated by the Ladino culture. Data come from a household survey and in-depth interviews with service providers carried out in 2001 in the town of Jocotán, and a survey carried out in 1994 in two nearby indigenous villages ( aldeas ). Descriptive analysis and logistic regression are used to explore the data. Previous DH…
Going to scale with professional skilled care
Applying a framework for assessing the quality of maternal health services in urban India
Community factors affecting rising caesarean section rates in developing countries
Does early childbearing and a sterilization-focused family planning programme in India fuel population growth
Recent stagnation in the reduction of infant mortality in India can arguably be attributed to early child bearing practices and the lack of progress in lengthening birth intervals. Meanwhile, family planning efforts have been particularly successful in
Examining the “Urban Advantage” in Maternal Health Care in Developing Countries
The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges
Geographical access to care at birth in Ghana
Detailed data assembly combined with geospatial modelling can provide nation-wide audits of geographical access to care at birth to support systemic maternal health planning, human resource deployment, and strategic targeting. Current international benchmarks of maternal health care provision are inadequate for these purposes because they fail to take account of the location and accessibility of services relative to the women they serve
Estimating unmet need for contraception by district within Ghana
The importance of meeting the unmet need for contraception is nowhere more urgent than in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, where the fertility decline is stalling and total unmet need exceeds 30 per cent among married women. In Ghana, where fertility levels vary considerably, demographic information at sub-national level is essential for building effective family planning programmes. We used small-area estimation techniques, linking data from…
Medicine (24 works) · Geography (23 works) · Economic growth (21 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Population (20 works) · Economics (18 works) · Environmental health (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Demography (15 works)