Naomi M Saville

Biographic Data

ID5206910
NAMENaomi M Saville
GIVEN NAMESNaomi M
FAMILY NAMESaville
SIGNATURESAVILLE N M
AFFILIATIONSInstitute for Global Health, UCL London UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • The role of education in child and adolescent marriage in rural lowland Nepal

    Open AccessAkanksha Marphatia, Naomi M Saville et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2023

    Marriage during childhood and adolescence adversely affects maternal and child health and well-being, making it a critical global health issue. Analysis of factors associated with women marrying ≥18 years has limited utility in societies where the norm is to marry substantially earlier. This paper investigated how much education Nepali women needed to delay marriage across the range of ages from 15 to ≥18 years. Data on 6,406 women aged 23-30 yea…

  • “Can’t live willingly”

    Open AccessFaith A Miller, Sophiya Dulal et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    In South Asia, early marriage has been associated with a range of adverse outcomes during pregnancy and infancy. This may partly be explained by early marriage leading to a younger maternal age, however it remains unclear which other factors are involved. This review aimed to synthesise the qualitative evidence on experiences of pregnancy following early marriage or early pregnancy in South Asia, to inform our understanding of the mechanisms betw…

  • Exploring the feasibility of integrating health, nutrition and stimulation interventions for children under three years in Nepal’s health system

    Open AccessSophiya Dulal, N Saville et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Community-based primary care settings are a potential entry point for delivering Early Childhood Development (ECD) interventions in Nepal. Past studies have suggested that integrating stimulation with nutrition interventions is an effective way to deliver multiple benefits for children, but there is limited knowledge of how to do this in Nepal. We conducted a qualitative study in Nepal’s Dhanusha district to explore how stimulation interventions …

  • Feeding, caregiving practices, and developmental delay among children under five in lowland Nepal

    Open AccessSophiya Dulal, Audrey Prost et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Suboptimal caregiving practices, inappropriate early breastfeeding practices, delayed introduction of complementary foods, inadequate dietary diversity and low animal-source food consumption are challenges in lowland Nepal. We call for urgent integrated nutrition and caregiving interventions, especially as interventions for child development are lacking in Nepal

  • Coming together

    Open AccessAkanksha Marphatia, N Saville et al.ARTICLEArea2022Cited by: 4References: 20

    This paper investigates how educational and geographic capital are assorted among households in rural Nepal, and how women's marital age may shape this distribution. Our focus on the timing of marriage adds a new dimension to studies of geographies of youth and marital assortment, while our emphasis on the physical and spatial attributes of households leads us to propose the concept of geographic capital, operationalised here as agrarian landhold…

  • Relative power

    Open AccessHelen Harris–Fry, N Saville et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2021Cited by: 6References: 12

    We estimate the effects of antenatal food and cash transfers with women's groups on household allocative behaviour and explore whether these effects are explained by intergenerational bargaining among women. Interventions were tested in randomised-controlled trial in rural Nepal, in a food-insecure context where pregnant women are allocated the least adequate diets. We show households enrolled in a cash transfer intervention allocated pregnant wo…

  • Independent associations of women's age at marriage and first pregnancy with their height in rural lowland Nepal

    Open AccessAkanksha Marphatia, N Saville et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2021Cited by: 3References: 57

    OBJECTIVES: In many South Asian communities, the majority of women are married during adolescence and reproduce before 20 years. Early reproduction may adversely affect maternal nutrition and linear growth, however whether early marriage has similar effects is unknown. Shorter women might also be preferentially chosen for earlier marriage. We hypothesized that early marriage and early pregnancy may each be associated with women's shorter height, …

  • Smartphone tool to collect repeated 24 h dietary recall data in Nepal

    Open AccessHelen Harris–Fry, B James Beard et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2018

    Objective To outline the development of a smartphone-based tool to collect thrice-repeated 24 h dietary recall data in rural Nepal, and to describe energy intakes, common errors and researchers’ experiences using the tool. Design We designed a novel tool to collect multi-pass 24 h dietary recalls in rural Nepal by combining the use of a CommCare questionnaire on smartphones, a paper form, a QR (quick response)-coded list of foods and a photograph…

  • Determinants of intra-household food allocation between adults in South Asia – a systematic review

    Open AccessHelen Harris–Fry, Niva Shrestha et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2017

  • Socioeconomic determinants of growth in a longitudinal study in Nepal

    Open AccessDelan Devakumar, Dalvir Kular et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2017

    Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with childhood anthropometry, but little is known about how it is associated with tissue growth and body composition. To investigate this, we looked at components of SES at birth with growth in early and mid-childhood, and body composition in a longitudinal study in Nepal. The exposure variables (material assets, land ownership, and maternal education) were quantified from questionnaire data before birth. …