Karen Webb

Biographic Data

ID5470106
NAMEKaren Webb
GIVEN NAMESKaren
FAMILY NAMEWebb
SIGNATUREWEBB K
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-0512-3857
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its control measures on women and children

    Open AccessTinotenda Taruvinga, Rudo MS Chingono et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed significant health policy challenges, particularly for low-income countries, where policymakers faced both direct threats from the virus and social and economic harm owing to lockdown measures. We present a holistic contextualized case study of the direct and indirect impacts on women and children, highlighting disparities across socioeconomic, age, and gender groups. We utilized multiple data sources…

  • Multimorbidity and health system priorities in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessJustin Dixon, Efison Dhodho et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Multimorbidity, increasingly recognised as a global health challenge, has recently emerged on the health agendas of many countries experiencing rapid epidemiological change, including in Africa. Yet with its conceptual origins in the global North, its meaning and possible utility in African contexts remains abstract. This study drew together policymakers, public health practitioners, academics, health informaticians, health professionals, and peo…

  • Engaging women and men in the gender-synchronised, community-based Mbereko+Men intervention to improve maternal mental health and perinatal care-seeking in Manicaland, Zimbabwe

    Open AccessLiz Comrie-Thomson, Karen Webb et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Maternal mental morbidity and low perinatal health service utilisation in resource-constrained settings contribute substantially to the global burden of poor maternal, newborn, and child health. The community-based Mbereko+Men program in rural Zimbabwe engaged women and men in complementary activities to improve men's support for women and babies, coparents' equitable, informed health decision-making, and ultimately, maternal mental h…

  • I was trying to get there, but I couldn’t’

    Open AccessKaren Webb, Karen A Webb et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Increasing facility-based delivery rates is pivotal to reach Sustainable Development Goals to improve skilled attendance at birth and reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The translation of global health initiatives into national policy and programmes has increased facility-based deliveries in LMICs, but little is known about the impact of such policies on social norms from the perspective of women w…

  • Method for Scoring Dose of Multicomponent Interventions

    Open AccessSridharshi C Hewawitharana, Janice Kao et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Evaluation2021References: 1

    Schools are a critical setting for improving child nutrition and food security and preventing obesity in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–Education, known as CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) in California, implements obesity prevention efforts that utilize multicomponent policy, systems, and environmental change interventions supplemented with direct and indirect educa…

  • Consumption of ‘extra’ foods (energy-dense, nutrient-poor) among children aged 16–24 months from western Sydney, Australia

    Open AccessKaren Webb, Karen L Webb et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2006

    Objective This study evaluates the contribution of energy-dense, nutrient-poor ‘extra’ foods to the diets of 16–24-month-old children from western Sydney, Australia. Design An analysis of cross-sectional data collected on participants in the Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS), a randomised trial investigating the primary prevention of asthma from birth to 5 years. We collected 3-day weighed food records, calculated nutrient intakes, classif…

  • Consumption of ‘extra’ foods (energy-dense, nutrient-poor) among children aged 16–24 months from western Sydney, Australia

    Open AccessKaren Webb, Karen L Webb et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2006

    The high percentage of energy contributed by 'extra' foods and their negative association with nutrient density emphasise the need for dietary guidance for parents of children aged 1-2 years. These preliminary data on commonly consumed 'extra' foods and portion sizes may inform age-specific dietary assessment methods

  • Issues in assessing the validity of nutrient data obtained from a food-frequency questionnaire

    Open AccessVictoria Flood, Victoria M Flood et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2004

    Objective: To compare methods used to assess the validity of nutrient intake data obtained from a food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ), using folate and vitamin B 12 as nutrient examples. Design: Cross-sectional sample from a population cohort. Setting: Two postcode areas west of Sydney, Australia. Subjects: In total, 2895 people aged 49 years and older provided dietary data using a semi-quantitative FFQ (79% of 3654 subjects examined). The validit…

  • The intake of carotenoids in an older Australian population

    Open AccessFiona Manzi, Victoria Flood et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2002

    Objective: To describe the distribution of carotenoid intakes and important food sources of carotenoids in the diet of a representative population of older Australians. Design: Population-based cohort study. Setting: Two post-code areas in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia. Subjects: We studied 2012 (86%) of the 2334 participants aged 55 + years attending the 5-year follow-up of the cross-sectional Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES), who…

  • Local food policy coalitions

    Open AccessKaren Webb, Karen L Webb et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values1998Cited by: 3References: 1