Marta R Prescott
Biographic Data
| ID | 6071493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta R Prescott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta R |
| FAMILY NAME | Prescott |
| SIGNATURE | PRESCOTT M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clinton Health Access Initiative |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6343-731X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Development of a composite scoring system to rank communities at high risk of zero-dose children in Cameroon: A geospatial analysis
Background: Despite growing efforts to improve access to vaccination, millions of children, especially in developing countries, have not received a single dose of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) vaccine. Consequently, they are often called zero-dose children (ZDC). With limited health resources, prioritising communities for rapid and mass zero-dose catch-up vaccination in missed communities to avert epidemic outbreaks is complicated by u…
Private health care market shaping and changes in inequities in childhood diarrhoea treatment coverage: Evidence from the analysis of baseline and endline surveys of an ORS and zinc scale-up program i…
The results show a pro-rural improvement in coverage and a reduction in coverage inequities across wealth quintiles from baseline to endline. This gives an indication that initiatives focused on shaping healthcare market systems may be effective in reducing health coverage gaps without detracting from equity as a health policy objective
Program evaluation of an ORS and zinc scale-up program in 8 Nigerian states
BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, diarrhea is the second leading killer of children under five. Between 2012-2017, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) and the Government of Nigeria implemented a comprehensive program in eight states aimed at increasing the percentage of children under five with diarrhea who were treated with zinc and oral rehydration solution (ORS). The program addressed demand, supply, and policy barriers to ORS and zinc upt…
Effect of enhanced detailing and mass media on community use of oral rehydration salts and zinc during a scale-up program in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh
BACKGROUND: The Clinton Health Access Initiative implemented a program from 2012-2016 to increase use of oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc to treat diarrhea in children under five in three states in India: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. The program interventions included detailing and development of a rural supply chain to reach private rural health care providers, training of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), technical…
Impact of the Safe Childbirth Checklist on health worker childbirth practices in Luapula province of Zambia: A pre-post study
Clinical Trials.gov ( NCT03263182 ) Registered August 28, 2017
Impact of passenger engagement through road safety bus stickers in public service vehicles on road traffic crashes in Zambia: A randomized controlled trial
PACT-R, PACTR201711002758216 . Registered 13 November 2017-Retrospectively registered
The composition of demand for newly launched vaccines: Results from the pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccine introductions in Ethiopia and Malawi
Understanding post-launch demand for new vaccines can help countries maximize the benefits of immunization programmes. In particular, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) should ensure adequate resource planning with regards to stock consumption and service delivery for new vaccines, whereas global suppliers must produce enough vaccines to meet demand. If a country underestimates the number of children seeking vaccination, a stock-out of comm…
The Role of Health Systems and Policies in Promoting Safe Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Multilevel Analysis
We aimed to measure the contribution of national factors, particularly health system characteristics, to the individual likelihood of professionally attended delivery (“safe delivery”) for women in low- and middle-income countries. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for 165 774 women in 31 countries, we estimated multilevel logistic regression models to measure the contribution of national economic and health system characteristics to likel…
Equity and the child health Millennium Development Goal: The role of pro-poor health policies
BACKGROUND: There are substantial disparities in mortality between rich and poor children in developing countries. As a result, there is a call for explicitly pro-poor health programming in efforts to reach the child health Millennium Development Goals. AIM: To estimate the contribution made by pro-poor health policy to reduction in wealth disparities in under-5 mortality. METHODS: An ecological, cross-sectional analysis was performed using Demog…
Equity of Skilled Birth Attendant Utilization in Developing Countries: Financing and Policy Determinants
Objectives. Developing countries with higher health care spending have greater overall utilization of maternal health services than do countries with lower spending. However, the rich tend to disproportionately use these services. We assessed whether redistributive government policies in the context of higher levels of health spending were associated with more-equitable use of skilled birth attendants (doctors, nurses, or midwives) between rich a…
Equity of Skilled Birth Attendant Utilization in Developing Countries: Financing and Policy Determinants
Objectives. Developing countries with higher health care spending have greater overall utilization of maternal health services than do countries with lower spending. However, the rich tend to disproportionately use these services. We assessed whether redistributive government policies in the context of higher levels of health spending were associated with more-equitable use of skilled birth attendants (doctors, nurses, or midwives) between rich a…
The Role of Health Systems and Policies in Promoting Safe Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Multilevel Analysis
We aimed to measure the contribution of national factors, particularly health system characteristics, to the individual likelihood of professionally attended delivery (“safe delivery”) for women in low- and middle-income countries. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for 165 774 women in 31 countries, we estimated multilevel logistic regression models to measure the contribution of national economic and health system characteristics to likel…
Equity and the child health Millennium Development Goal: The role of pro-poor health policies
BACKGROUND: There are substantial disparities in mortality between rich and poor children in developing countries. As a result, there is a call for explicitly pro-poor health programming in efforts to reach the child health Millennium Development Goals. AIM: To estimate the contribution made by pro-poor health policy to reduction in wealth disparities in under-5 mortality. METHODS: An ecological, cross-sectional analysis was performed using Demog…
Equity of Skilled Birth Attendant Utilization in Developing Countries: Financing and Policy Determinants
Objectives. Developing countries with higher health care spending have greater overall utilization of maternal health services than do countries with lower spending. However, the rich tend to disproportionately use these services. We assessed whether redistributive government policies in the context of higher levels of health spending were associated with more-equitable use of skilled birth attendants (doctors, nurses, or midwives) between rich a…
Equity and the child health Millennium Development Goal: The role of pro-poor health policies
BACKGROUND: There are substantial disparities in mortality between rich and poor children in developing countries. As a result, there is a call for explicitly pro-poor health programming in efforts to reach the child health Millennium Development Goals. AIM: To estimate the contribution made by pro-poor health policy to reduction in wealth disparities in under-5 mortality. METHODS: An ecological, cross-sectional analysis was performed using Demog…
The Role of Health Systems and Policies in Promoting Safe Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Multilevel Analysis
We aimed to measure the contribution of national factors, particularly health system characteristics, to the individual likelihood of professionally attended delivery (“safe delivery”) for women in low- and middle-income countries. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for 165 774 women in 31 countries, we estimated multilevel logistic regression models to measure the contribution of national economic and health system characteristics to likel…
The composition of demand for newly launched vaccines: Results from the pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccine introductions in Ethiopia and Malawi
Understanding post-launch demand for new vaccines can help countries maximize the benefits of immunization programmes. In particular, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) should ensure adequate resource planning with regards to stock consumption and service delivery for new vaccines, whereas global suppliers must produce enough vaccines to meet demand. If a country underestimates the number of children seeking vaccination, a stock-out of comm…
Impact of the Safe Childbirth Checklist on health worker childbirth practices in Luapula province of Zambia: A pre-post study
Clinical Trials.gov ( NCT03263182 ) Registered August 28, 2017
Impact of passenger engagement through road safety bus stickers in public service vehicles on road traffic crashes in Zambia: A randomized controlled trial
PACT-R, PACTR201711002758216 . Registered 13 November 2017-Retrospectively registered
Program evaluation of an ORS and zinc scale-up program in 8 Nigerian states
BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, diarrhea is the second leading killer of children under five. Between 2012-2017, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) and the Government of Nigeria implemented a comprehensive program in eight states aimed at increasing the percentage of children under five with diarrhea who were treated with zinc and oral rehydration solution (ORS). The program addressed demand, supply, and policy barriers to ORS and zinc upt…
Effect of enhanced detailing and mass media on community use of oral rehydration salts and zinc during a scale-up program in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh
BACKGROUND: The Clinton Health Access Initiative implemented a program from 2012-2016 to increase use of oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc to treat diarrhea in children under five in three states in India: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. The program interventions included detailing and development of a rural supply chain to reach private rural health care providers, training of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), technical…
Private health care market shaping and changes in inequities in childhood diarrhoea treatment coverage: Evidence from the analysis of baseline and endline surveys of an ORS and zinc scale-up program i…
The results show a pro-rural improvement in coverage and a reduction in coverage inequities across wealth quintiles from baseline to endline. This gives an indication that initiatives focused on shaping healthcare market systems may be effective in reducing health coverage gaps without detracting from equity as a health policy objective
Development of a composite scoring system to rank communities at high risk of zero-dose children in Cameroon: A geospatial analysis
Background: Despite growing efforts to improve access to vaccination, millions of children, especially in developing countries, have not received a single dose of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) vaccine. Consequently, they are often called zero-dose children (ZDC). With limited health resources, prioritising communities for rapid and mass zero-dose catch-up vaccination in missed communities to avert epidemic outbreaks is complicated by u…
Medicine (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Logistic regression (4 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 works) · Economics (3 works)