Allisyn C Moran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3931205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allisyn C Moran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allisyn C |
| FAMILY NAME | Moran |
| SIGNATURE | MORÁN A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Save the Children, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 4Save the Children, Washington, DC, USA and 5UNICEF, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Operationalising an integrated mortality transition framework for programmatic priority setting across maternal and newborn health
Data-driven decision making will be instrumental in reducing maternal mortality, newborn mortality, and stillbirth levels in the coming years as the Sustainable Development Goal targets draw near in 2030. Tailoring evidence to be context-specific is crucial to target relevant questions, priorities, and needs. In doing so, there remains value in grounding local data in the broader global health data landscape. Here, we introduce one resource - an …
National, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth in 2020, with trends from 2010
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and is associated with long-term physical, neurodevelopmental, and socioeconomic effects. This study updated national preterm birth rates and trends, plus novel estimates by gestational age subgroups, to inform progress towards global health goals and targets, and aimed to update country, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth for 2020 in addition to trends between 2010…
Measures to assess quality of postnatal care
High quality postnatal care is key for the health and wellbeing of women after childbirth and their newborns. In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) published global recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal care experience in a new WHO PNC guideline. Evidence regarding appropriate measures to monitor implementation of postnatal care (PNC) according to the WHO PNC guideline is lacking. This scoping review aims to…
Assessing the neonatal health policy landscape in low- and middle-income countries
Background: We aimed to describe the availability of newborn health policies across the continuum of care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to assess the relationship between the availability of newborn health policies and their achievement of global Sustainable Development Goal and Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) neonatal mortality and stillbirth rate targets in 2019. Methods: We used data from World Health Organization's 2018-201…
Maternal health policy environment and the relationship with service utilization in low- and middle-income countries
Background: The extent to which a favorable policy environment influences health care utilization and outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women is largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to describe the maternal health policy environment and examines its relationship with maternal health service utilization in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Methods: tests and fitted logistic regression models for ≥85% coverage for each of four or mor…
Changes in the health systems and policy environment for maternal and newborn health, 2008-2018
A rapid systematic review and evidence synthesis of effective coverage measures and cascades for childbirth, newborn and child health in low- and middle-income countries
Implementation of the new WHO antenatal care model for a positive pregnancy experience
Monitoring the implementation and impact of routine antenatal care (ANC), as described in the new World Health Organization (WHO) ANC model, requires indicators that go beyond the previously used global benchmark indicator of four or more ANC visits. To enable consistent monitoring of ANC content and care processes and to provide guidance to countries and health facilities, WHO developed an ANC monitoring framework. This framework builds on a con…
Timing and number of antenatal care contacts in low and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: The 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for antenatal care (ANC) shift the recommended minimum number of ANC contacts from four to eight, specifying the first contact to occur within the first trimester of pregnancy. We quantify the likelihood of meeting this recommendation in 54 Countdown to 2030 priority countries and identify the characteristics of women being left behind. METHODS: Using 54 Demographic and Health Survey…
Countdown to 2030
Measuring coverage of essential maternal and newborn care interventions
Quality maternity care for every woman, everywhere
Improved measurement for mothers, newborns and children in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals
BACKGROUND: An urgent priority in maternal, newborn and child health is to accelerate the scale-up of cost-effective essential interventions, especially during labor, the immediate postnatal period and for the treatment of serious infectious diseases and acute malnutrition. Tracking intervention coverage is a key activity to support scale-up and in this paper we examine priorities in coverage measurement, distinguishing between essential interven…
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
Assessing the Continuum of Care Pathway for Maternal Health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Behavioral change messages are needed to increase the numbers of antenatal and postnatal care visits, improve birth preparedness, and encourage skilled attendance at delivery. Programs in the urban slum areas should also consider interventions to improve social support for key influential persons in the community, particularly landladies who serve as advisors and decision-makers
Causes of neonatal and maternal deaths in Dhaka slums
Delivery at a health facility with child assessment within a day of delivery and appropriate treatment could reduce neonatal deaths. Maternal mortality is unlikely to reduce without delivering at facilities with basic Emergency Obstetric Care (EOC) and arrangements for timely referral to EOC. There is a need for a comprehensive package of services that includes control of infectious diseases during pregnancy, EOC and adequate after delivery care
Newborn survival
Neonatal deaths account for 40% of global under-five mortality and are ever more important if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival. We applied a results framework to evaluate global and national changes for neonatal mortality rates (NMR), healthy behaviours, intervention coverage, health system change, and inputs including funding, while considering contextual changes. The average annual rate of reduction …
Benchmarks to measure readiness to integrate and scale up newborn survival interventions
Neonatal mortality accounts for 40% of under-five child mortality. Evidence-based interventions exist, but attention to implementation is recent. Nationally representative coverage data for these neonatal interventions are limited; therefore proximal measures of progress toward scale would be valuable for tracking change among countries and over time. We describe the process of selecting a set of benchmarks to assess scale up readiness or the deg…
Newborn survival in Bangladesh
Remarkable progress over the last decade has put Bangladesh on track for Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 for child survival and achieved a 40% decline in maternal mortality. However, since neonatal deaths make up 57% of under-five mortality in the country, increased scale up and equity in programmes for neonatal survival are critical to sustain progress. We examined change for newborn survival from 2000 to 2010 considering mortality, coverage…
Psychological and social consequences among mothers suffering from perinatal loss
This study highlights the greatly increased vulnerability of women with perinatal death to experience negative psychological and social consequences. There is an urgent need to develop appropriate mental health care services for mothers with perinatal deaths in Bangladesh, including interventions to develop positive family support
Newborn survival
Neonatal deaths account for 40% of global under-five mortality and are ever more important if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival. We applied a results framework to evaluate global and national changes for neonatal mortality rates (NMR), healthy behaviours, intervention coverage, health system change, and inputs including funding, while considering contextual changes. The average annual rate of reduction …
Newborn survival in Bangladesh
Remarkable progress over the last decade has put Bangladesh on track for Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 for child survival and achieved a 40% decline in maternal mortality. However, since neonatal deaths make up 57% of under-five mortality in the country, increased scale up and equity in programmes for neonatal survival are critical to sustain progress. We examined change for newborn survival from 2000 to 2010 considering mortality, coverage…
Benchmarks to measure readiness to integrate and scale up newborn survival interventions
Neonatal mortality accounts for 40% of under-five child mortality. Evidence-based interventions exist, but attention to implementation is recent. Nationally representative coverage data for these neonatal interventions are limited; therefore proximal measures of progress toward scale would be valuable for tracking change among countries and over time. We describe the process of selecting a set of benchmarks to assess scale up readiness or the deg…
Psychological and social consequences among mothers suffering from perinatal loss
This study highlights the greatly increased vulnerability of women with perinatal death to experience negative psychological and social consequences. There is an urgent need to develop appropriate mental health care services for mothers with perinatal deaths in Bangladesh, including interventions to develop positive family support
Beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Behavioral change messages are needed to increase the numbers of antenatal and postnatal care visits, improve birth preparedness, and encourage skilled attendance at delivery. Programs in the urban slum areas should also consider interventions to improve social support for key influential persons in the community, particularly landladies who serve as advisors and decision-makers
Causes of neonatal and maternal deaths in Dhaka slums
Delivery at a health facility with child assessment within a day of delivery and appropriate treatment could reduce neonatal deaths. Maternal mortality is unlikely to reduce without delivering at facilities with basic Emergency Obstetric Care (EOC) and arrangements for timely referral to EOC. There is a need for a comprehensive package of services that includes control of infectious diseases during pregnancy, EOC and adequate after delivery care
Newborn survival
Neonatal deaths account for 40% of global under-five mortality and are ever more important if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival. We applied a results framework to evaluate global and national changes for neonatal mortality rates (NMR), healthy behaviours, intervention coverage, health system change, and inputs including funding, while considering contextual changes. The average annual rate of reduction …
Benchmarks to measure readiness to integrate and scale up newborn survival interventions
Neonatal mortality accounts for 40% of under-five child mortality. Evidence-based interventions exist, but attention to implementation is recent. Nationally representative coverage data for these neonatal interventions are limited; therefore proximal measures of progress toward scale would be valuable for tracking change among countries and over time. We describe the process of selecting a set of benchmarks to assess scale up readiness or the deg…
Newborn survival in Bangladesh
Remarkable progress over the last decade has put Bangladesh on track for Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 for child survival and achieved a 40% decline in maternal mortality. However, since neonatal deaths make up 57% of under-five mortality in the country, increased scale up and equity in programmes for neonatal survival are critical to sustain progress. We examined change for newborn survival from 2000 to 2010 considering mortality, coverage…
Assessing the Continuum of Care Pathway for Maternal Health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Quality maternity care for every woman, everywhere
Improved measurement for mothers, newborns and children in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals
BACKGROUND: An urgent priority in maternal, newborn and child health is to accelerate the scale-up of cost-effective essential interventions, especially during labor, the immediate postnatal period and for the treatment of serious infectious diseases and acute malnutrition. Tracking intervention coverage is a key activity to support scale-up and in this paper we examine priorities in coverage measurement, distinguishing between essential interven…
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
Measuring coverage of essential maternal and newborn care interventions
Countdown to 2030
Implementation of the new WHO antenatal care model for a positive pregnancy experience
Monitoring the implementation and impact of routine antenatal care (ANC), as described in the new World Health Organization (WHO) ANC model, requires indicators that go beyond the previously used global benchmark indicator of four or more ANC visits. To enable consistent monitoring of ANC content and care processes and to provide guidance to countries and health facilities, WHO developed an ANC monitoring framework. This framework builds on a con…
Timing and number of antenatal care contacts in low and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: The 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for antenatal care (ANC) shift the recommended minimum number of ANC contacts from four to eight, specifying the first contact to occur within the first trimester of pregnancy. We quantify the likelihood of meeting this recommendation in 54 Countdown to 2030 priority countries and identify the characteristics of women being left behind. METHODS: Using 54 Demographic and Health Survey…
A rapid systematic review and evidence synthesis of effective coverage measures and cascades for childbirth, newborn and child health in low- and middle-income countries
National, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth in 2020, with trends from 2010
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and is associated with long-term physical, neurodevelopmental, and socioeconomic effects. This study updated national preterm birth rates and trends, plus novel estimates by gestational age subgroups, to inform progress towards global health goals and targets, and aimed to update country, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth for 2020 in addition to trends between 2010…
Measures to assess quality of postnatal care
High quality postnatal care is key for the health and wellbeing of women after childbirth and their newborns. In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) published global recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal care experience in a new WHO PNC guideline. Evidence regarding appropriate measures to monitor implementation of postnatal care (PNC) according to the WHO PNC guideline is lacking. This scoping review aims to…
Assessing the neonatal health policy landscape in low- and middle-income countries
Background: We aimed to describe the availability of newborn health policies across the continuum of care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to assess the relationship between the availability of newborn health policies and their achievement of global Sustainable Development Goal and Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) neonatal mortality and stillbirth rate targets in 2019. Methods: We used data from World Health Organization's 2018-201…
Maternal health policy environment and the relationship with service utilization in low- and middle-income countries
Background: The extent to which a favorable policy environment influences health care utilization and outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women is largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to describe the maternal health policy environment and examines its relationship with maternal health service utilization in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Methods: tests and fitted logistic regression models for ≥85% coverage for each of four or mor…
Changes in the health systems and policy environment for maternal and newborn health, 2008-2018
Operationalising an integrated mortality transition framework for programmatic priority setting across maternal and newborn health
Data-driven decision making will be instrumental in reducing maternal mortality, newborn mortality, and stillbirth levels in the coming years as the Sustainable Development Goal targets draw near in 2030. Tailoring evidence to be context-specific is crucial to target relevant questions, priorities, and needs. In doing so, there remains value in grounding local data in the broader global health data landscape. Here, we introduce one resource - an …
Medicine (20 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (19 works) · Environmental health (16 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (11 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Psychological intervention (8 works) · Public health (8 works)