Jainaba Badjie

Biographic Data

ID4284142
NAMEJainaba Badjie
GIVEN NAMESJainaba
FAMILY NAMEBadjie
SIGNATUREBADJIE J
AFFILIATIONSMRC Unit the Gambia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Understanding factors that impact patient access and engagement with biomedical and traditional care for hip fractures in The Gambia

    Open AccessAwa Touray, Rachael Gooberman‐hill et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Across Africa, the average age of the population is increasing, leading to a rise in health challenges such as hip fractures. Surgical fixation is the standard of care for hip fracture in older adults. In The Gambia, traditional bone setters (TBS) remain an important source of fracture care, though concerns exist regarding complications. In resource-constrained settings, system constraints may also result in post-operative complications. Currentl…

  • Traditional bone setter practices and the interaction with biomedical care in the treatment of hip fractures in The Gambia

    Open AccessAwa Touray, Kimberly Lakin et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    A growing ageing population in Africa underscores the need to reorient health systems to provide care for non-communicable conditions impacting older populations such as hip fractures. In The Gambia, the number of hip fractures are expected to quadruple for both men and women in the next 30 years. This is comparable to hip fracture incidence rates in other South and West African countries. Moreover, mortality rates post-hip fracture are 2–3 fold …

  • Understanding the role of ‘software’ in health system capacity for non-communicable disease response

    Open AccessRobinson Oyando, Nancy Kagwanja et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2026References: 63

    Research on health system capacity to manage non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has largely focused on ‘system hardware’ such as infrastructure, workforce, and commodities. However, this overlooks the critical role of ‘system software’ elements, such as relationships, norms, and power, and the complex adaptive nature of health systems. This study aimed to explore how health system hardware and software elements interact to shape the capacity of the…

  • Understanding what factors influence community health worker involvement in hypertension service delivery in Kenya

    Open AccessNancy Kagwanja, Robinson Oyando et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2026References: 46

    The systematic involvement of community health workers (CHWs) in hypertension management can improve outcomes and achieve blood pressure control. However, much of this evidence is from effectiveness trials conducted under ideal conditions, with little evidence from programmes operating in routine conditions. In Kenya, recent policy changes have expanded CHW roles to routinely incorporate non-communicable disease (including hypertension) service d…

  • Access to hypertension services and health-seeking experiences in rural Coastal Kenya

    Open AccessRobinson Oyando, Nancy Kagwanja et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Globally, hypertension causes 10.8 million deaths annually. However, in Kenya, like in other low-and middle-income countries, access to hypertension care remains limited and inequitable. Understanding patients’ journeys in accessing care along the care cascade is critical to inform patient-centred care and policy improvements. This study aimed to explore patient experiences in accessing primary care services for hypertension along the care cascad…

  • Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers

    Open AccessJohn H Shaver, Radim Chvaja et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2024

    OBJECTIVES: Human childrearing is cooperative, with women often able to achieve relatively high fertility through help from many individuals. Previous work has documented tremendous socioecological variation in who supports women in childrearing, but less is known about the intracultural correlates of variation in allomaternal support. In the highly religious, high-fertility setting of The Gambia, we studied whether religious mothers have more ch…

  • Grassroots and Youth-Led Climate Solutions From The Gambia

    Open AccessAna Bonell, Jainaba Badjie et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Climate change and environmental degradation are among the greatest threats to human health. Youth campaigners have very effectively focused global attention on the crisis, however children from the Global South are often under-represented (sometimes deliberately) in the dialogue. In The Gambia, West Africa, the impacts of climate change are already being directly experienced by the population, and this will worsen in coming years. There is stron…