S Cousens
Biographic Data
| ID | 6167768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Cousens |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cousens |
| SIGNATURE | COUSENS S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Estimating the birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of congenital malformations worldwide
Congenital anomaly registries have two main surveillance aims: firstly to define baseline epidemiology of important congenital anomalies to facilitate programme, policy and resource planning, and secondly to identify clusters of cases and any other epidemiological changes that could give early warning of environmental or infectious hazards. However, setting up a sustainable registry and surveillance system is resource-intensive requiring national…
Newborn survival
Health Policy & Planning volume 27 supplement 3: A decade of change for newborn survival, policy and programmes (2000–2010), July 2012 pp. iii6–iii28 doi:10.1093/heapol/czs053 This article contained errors on p. 8, para 1 and in Table 3. The health density figures should refer to the number of midwives, nurses and physicians per 100 000, not per 10 000. The sentence on p. 8 should read: The density of midwives and nurses is over 30-fold higher in…
O4-3.1 Distance and quality of care strongly influence choice of delivery place in rural Zambia
Introduction Maternal and perinatal mortality could be reduced if all women delivered in settings where skilled attendants can provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) if complications arise. Epidemiological research on determinants of skilled attendance at delivery has focused on household and individual factors, neglecting the influence of distance and quality of care, in part due to a lack of suitable data. Methods Using a Geographic Informatio…
Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public-health interventions
BACKGROUND: In non-randomised evaluations of public-health interventions, statistical methods to control confounding will usually be required. We review approaches to the control of confounding and discuss issues in drawing causal inference from these studies. METHODS: Non-systematic review of literature and mathematical data-simulation. RESULTS: Standard stratification and regression techniques will often be appropriate, but propensity scores ma…
Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public health interventions
BACKGROUND: There has been a recent increase in interest in alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public health interventions. We aim to describe specific scenarios in which randomised trials may not be possible and describe, exemplify and assess alternative strategies. METHODS: Non-systematic exploratory review. RESULTS: In many scenarios barriers are surmountable so that randomised trials (including stepped-wedge and crossover tria…
Dirt and Diarrhoea
Investment in the promotion of better hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and as a component of water and sanitation programmes is increasing. Before designing programmes capable of sustainably modifying hygiene behaviour in large populations, valid answers to a number of basic questions concerning the site and the intended beneficiaries have to be obtained. Such questions include 'what practices favour the transmission of enteric p…
Child defecation behaviour, stool disposal practices, and childhood diarrhoea in Burkina Faso
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the association between where young children defecate, where stools are disposed of, and the presence of human stools on the ground in the compound and the rate of hospital admission with diarrhoea. DESIGN--This was a case-control study with two control groups. SETTING--The study took place in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second city of Burkina Faso in West Africa. PARTICIPANTS--Three groups of children aged 36 months and under, …
Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public health interventions
BACKGROUND: There has been a recent increase in interest in alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public health interventions. We aim to describe specific scenarios in which randomised trials may not be possible and describe, exemplify and assess alternative strategies. METHODS: Non-systematic exploratory review. RESULTS: In many scenarios barriers are surmountable so that randomised trials (including stepped-wedge and crossover tria…
Dirt and Diarrhoea
Investment in the promotion of better hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and as a component of water and sanitation programmes is increasing. Before designing programmes capable of sustainably modifying hygiene behaviour in large populations, valid answers to a number of basic questions concerning the site and the intended beneficiaries have to be obtained. Such questions include 'what practices favour the transmission of enteric p…
Child defecation behaviour, stool disposal practices, and childhood diarrhoea in Burkina Faso
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the association between where young children defecate, where stools are disposed of, and the presence of human stools on the ground in the compound and the rate of hospital admission with diarrhoea. DESIGN--This was a case-control study with two control groups. SETTING--The study took place in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second city of Burkina Faso in West Africa. PARTICIPANTS--Three groups of children aged 36 months and under, …
Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public-health interventions
BACKGROUND: In non-randomised evaluations of public-health interventions, statistical methods to control confounding will usually be required. We review approaches to the control of confounding and discuss issues in drawing causal inference from these studies. METHODS: Non-systematic review of literature and mathematical data-simulation. RESULTS: Standard stratification and regression techniques will often be appropriate, but propensity scores ma…
Child defecation behaviour, stool disposal practices, and childhood diarrhoea in Burkina Faso
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the association between where young children defecate, where stools are disposed of, and the presence of human stools on the ground in the compound and the rate of hospital admission with diarrhoea. DESIGN--This was a case-control study with two control groups. SETTING--The study took place in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second city of Burkina Faso in West Africa. PARTICIPANTS--Three groups of children aged 36 months and under, …
Dirt and Diarrhoea
Investment in the promotion of better hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and as a component of water and sanitation programmes is increasing. Before designing programmes capable of sustainably modifying hygiene behaviour in large populations, valid answers to a number of basic questions concerning the site and the intended beneficiaries have to be obtained. Such questions include 'what practices favour the transmission of enteric p…
O4-3.1 Distance and quality of care strongly influence choice of delivery place in rural Zambia
Introduction Maternal and perinatal mortality could be reduced if all women delivered in settings where skilled attendants can provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) if complications arise. Epidemiological research on determinants of skilled attendance at delivery has focused on household and individual factors, neglecting the influence of distance and quality of care, in part due to a lack of suitable data. Methods Using a Geographic Informatio…
Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public-health interventions
BACKGROUND: In non-randomised evaluations of public-health interventions, statistical methods to control confounding will usually be required. We review approaches to the control of confounding and discuss issues in drawing causal inference from these studies. METHODS: Non-systematic review of literature and mathematical data-simulation. RESULTS: Standard stratification and regression techniques will often be appropriate, but propensity scores ma…
Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public health interventions
BACKGROUND: There has been a recent increase in interest in alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public health interventions. We aim to describe specific scenarios in which randomised trials may not be possible and describe, exemplify and assess alternative strategies. METHODS: Non-systematic exploratory review. RESULTS: In many scenarios barriers are surmountable so that randomised trials (including stepped-wedge and crossover tria…
Newborn survival
Health Policy & Planning volume 27 supplement 3: A decade of change for newborn survival, policy and programmes (2000–2010), July 2012 pp. iii6–iii28 doi:10.1093/heapol/czs053 This article contained errors on p. 8, para 1 and in Table 3. The health density figures should refer to the number of midwives, nurses and physicians per 100 000, not per 10 000. The sentence on p. 8 should read: The density of midwives and nurses is over 30-fold higher in…
Estimating the birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of congenital malformations worldwide
Congenital anomaly registries have two main surveillance aims: firstly to define baseline epidemiology of important congenital anomalies to facilitate programme, policy and resource planning, and secondly to identify clusters of cases and any other epidemiological changes that could give early warning of environmental or infectious hazards. However, setting up a sustainable registry and surveillance system is resource-intensive requiring national…
Medicine (6 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Confounding (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Logistic regression (2 works) · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (2 works)