Sara Rotenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5991840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Rotenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Rotenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROTENBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6164-8877 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bringing legislation to life
The Sindh Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act 2018 (SEPD Act) mandates inclusive health services for persons with disabilities. This study examines the challenges faced in implementing the disability Act’s health-related provisions, with a focus on children with disabilities in Sindh, Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted in four districts of Sindh province. A total of 40 key informant interviews were undertaken with go…
Impact Evaluations for Progressing Disability-Inclusive Development
People with disabilities experience stark inequities across the spectrum of development priorities. Yet they are rarely prioritised by development programmes. The poor evidence base for ‘what works’ for disability-inclusive development is a major challenge to taking action and advancing the meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities. The Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action (PENDA) was established to undertake high-quality imp…
‘They are one of us’
Health workers negative attitudes and stigma are often reported as one of the greatest barriers for disabled people to access healthcare. Interventions have been developed in response, and preliminary results often show promising effect on changing health workers' negative attitudes. However, this does not include longer-term, qualitative follow up to explore how health workers change their behaviour post-intervention. This qualitative study exam…
Women with disabilities’ use of maternal care services in sub-Saharan Africa
This study is the first quantitative, multi-country study in sub-Saharan Africa to examine maternal care seeking patterns, demonstrating important data on maternal health indicators for women with disabilities
Adapting and pilot testing a tool to assess the accessibility of primary health facilities for people with disabilities in Luuka District, Uganda
Overall accessibility scores were low, with many opportunities for low-cost improvement at the facility level. We did not identify any issues with the implementation of the tool, suggesting few further adaptations are required for its future use in this setting
Counting who makes the grade
Many education systems within sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the problem of over-aged learners. Children who are above the expected age for their grade experience poorer outcomes relative to other learners and it is therefore of interest to policymakers to accurately identify them for the purposes of informing effective remedial interventions. UNICEF’s sixth round of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey’s [MICS6] are among the relatively few rob…
Inequities in birth registration, violent discipline, and child labour by disability status and sex
Nearly 240 million children are estimated to have a disability globally. We describe inequities by disability status and sex in birth registration, child labour, and violent discipline outcomes. Data come from Round 6 of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey programme and includes 323,436 children, aged 2–17 years in 24 countries. We estimated non-registration of birth, child labour, and violent discipline, stratified by sex and disability in eac…
Accessibility of Canadian Covid-19 Testing Locations for People with Disabilities During the Third Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background: Canadians with disabilities make up nearly a quarter of the population yet faced barriers in accessing information about COVID-19 testing accessibility across the country. Objective: This study aimed to understand the availability of accessibility information for COVID-19 testing sites in Canada. To date, no known studies have evaluated the availability of accessibility information online.Methods: An environmental scan of COVID-19 tes…
Getting on Track
In 1995, India passed the Persons with Disabilities Act to legislate the principles and requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities. As part of this, the Government of India boldly committed to achieving universal design in its public transit systems. Despite legal provisions for ensuring accessibility of public transport and strong harmonized guidelines, Mumbai’s suburban rail network lacks adequate considera…
A Call for Better Integrated Policies to Accelerate the Fertility Decline in Sub‐Saharan Africa
To accelerate their demographic transition, sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries must trigger significant and rapid fertility declines. These fertility declines will open a demographic window of opportunity and enable countries to capture a first demographic dividend. Despite some successes, many programs aimed at decreasing fertility in SSA have yielded disappointing results. This commentary argues that better integrated policies will help to acc…
A Call for Better Integrated Policies to Accelerate the Fertility Decline in Sub‐Saharan Africa
To accelerate their demographic transition, sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries must trigger significant and rapid fertility declines. These fertility declines will open a demographic window of opportunity and enable countries to capture a first demographic dividend. Despite some successes, many programs aimed at decreasing fertility in SSA have yielded disappointing results. This commentary argues that better integrated policies will help to acc…
A Call for Better Integrated Policies to Accelerate the Fertility Decline in Sub‐Saharan Africa
To accelerate their demographic transition, sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries must trigger significant and rapid fertility declines. These fertility declines will open a demographic window of opportunity and enable countries to capture a first demographic dividend. Despite some successes, many programs aimed at decreasing fertility in SSA have yielded disappointing results. This commentary argues that better integrated policies will help to acc…
Accessibility of Canadian Covid-19 Testing Locations for People with Disabilities During the Third Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background: Canadians with disabilities make up nearly a quarter of the population yet faced barriers in accessing information about COVID-19 testing accessibility across the country. Objective: This study aimed to understand the availability of accessibility information for COVID-19 testing sites in Canada. To date, no known studies have evaluated the availability of accessibility information online.Methods: An environmental scan of COVID-19 tes…
Getting on Track
In 1995, India passed the Persons with Disabilities Act to legislate the principles and requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities. As part of this, the Government of India boldly committed to achieving universal design in its public transit systems. Despite legal provisions for ensuring accessibility of public transport and strong harmonized guidelines, Mumbai’s suburban rail network lacks adequate considera…
Inequities in birth registration, violent discipline, and child labour by disability status and sex
Nearly 240 million children are estimated to have a disability globally. We describe inequities by disability status and sex in birth registration, child labour, and violent discipline outcomes. Data come from Round 6 of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey programme and includes 323,436 children, aged 2–17 years in 24 countries. We estimated non-registration of birth, child labour, and violent discipline, stratified by sex and disability in eac…
‘They are one of us’
Health workers negative attitudes and stigma are often reported as one of the greatest barriers for disabled people to access healthcare. Interventions have been developed in response, and preliminary results often show promising effect on changing health workers' negative attitudes. However, this does not include longer-term, qualitative follow up to explore how health workers change their behaviour post-intervention. This qualitative study exam…
Women with disabilities’ use of maternal care services in sub-Saharan Africa
This study is the first quantitative, multi-country study in sub-Saharan Africa to examine maternal care seeking patterns, demonstrating important data on maternal health indicators for women with disabilities
Adapting and pilot testing a tool to assess the accessibility of primary health facilities for people with disabilities in Luuka District, Uganda
Overall accessibility scores were low, with many opportunities for low-cost improvement at the facility level. We did not identify any issues with the implementation of the tool, suggesting few further adaptations are required for its future use in this setting
Counting who makes the grade
Many education systems within sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the problem of over-aged learners. Children who are above the expected age for their grade experience poorer outcomes relative to other learners and it is therefore of interest to policymakers to accurately identify them for the purposes of informing effective remedial interventions. UNICEF’s sixth round of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey’s [MICS6] are among the relatively few rob…
Bringing legislation to life
The Sindh Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act 2018 (SEPD Act) mandates inclusive health services for persons with disabilities. This study examines the challenges faced in implementing the disability Act’s health-related provisions, with a focus on children with disabilities in Sindh, Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted in four districts of Sindh province. A total of 40 key informant interviews were undertaken with go…
Impact Evaluations for Progressing Disability-Inclusive Development
People with disabilities experience stark inequities across the spectrum of development priorities. Yet they are rarely prioritised by development programmes. The poor evidence base for ‘what works’ for disability-inclusive development is a major challenge to taking action and advancing the meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities. The Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action (PENDA) was established to undertake high-quality imp…
Medicine (6 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)