Robert W Scherpbier
Biographic Data
| ID | 6330354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Scherpbier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Scherpbier |
| SIGNATURE | SCHERPBIER R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Capital Institute of Pediatrics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embedded research to advance primary health care
Realising renewed efforts to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage, manage health emergencies and create healthier populations requires integrated action on system-wide challenges. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on primary health care (PHC). Advancing PHC needs the support of a robust learning agenda—encompassing questions on how to improve both essential and emergency services, engage and empower communities and addr…
Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys
BACKGROUND: To compare text messaging and face-to-face interviews to conduct a survey on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia. METHODS: Caregivers of young children able to send text messages in Zhao County in rural China were included in this crossover study. Villages (clusters) were randomized into two groups using the ratio 1:1.6 to account for an expected higher drop-out in group 2. In group 1, participants first completed the face-to-face and t…
Inequality in early childhood neurodevelopment in six poor rural counties of China
The early childhood neurodevelopment in the surveyed area is poor and unfair. Factors including household economic status, caregivers' depressive symptoms, learning material and family support for learning are significantly associated with children's suspected developmental delay and early developmental inequality. The results highlight the urgent need of monitoring child neurodevelopment in poor rural areas. Interventions targeting the caregiver…
MHealth Series
BACKGROUND: An important issue for mHealth evaluation is the lack of information for sample size calculations. OBJECTIVE: To explore factors that influence sample size calculations for mHealth-based studies and to suggest strategies for increasing the participation rate. METHODS: We explored factors influencing recruitment and follow-up of participants (caregivers of children) in an mHealth text messaging data collection cross-over study. With he…
Child health security in China
Context matters
Appropriate consideration of contextual factors is essential for ensuring internal and external validity of randomized and non-randomized evaluations. Contextual factors may confound the association between delivery of the intervention and its potential health impact. They may also modify the effect of the intervention or programme, thus affecting the generalizability of results. This is particularly true for large-scale health programmes, for wh…
Programmatic pathways to child survival
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the expectations held by World Health Organization programme personnel about how the introduction of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy would lead to improvements in child health and nutrition, to compare these expectations with what was learned from the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI Effectiveness, Cost and Impact (MCE-IMCI), and to discuss the implications of these findings for child surviva…
Context matters
Appropriate consideration of contextual factors is essential for ensuring internal and external validity of randomized and non-randomized evaluations. Contextual factors may confound the association between delivery of the intervention and its potential health impact. They may also modify the effect of the intervention or programme, thus affecting the generalizability of results. This is particularly true for large-scale health programmes, for wh…
Programmatic pathways to child survival
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the expectations held by World Health Organization programme personnel about how the introduction of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy would lead to improvements in child health and nutrition, to compare these expectations with what was learned from the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI Effectiveness, Cost and Impact (MCE-IMCI), and to discuss the implications of these findings for child surviva…
Child health security in China
Context matters
Appropriate consideration of contextual factors is essential for ensuring internal and external validity of randomized and non-randomized evaluations. Contextual factors may confound the association between delivery of the intervention and its potential health impact. They may also modify the effect of the intervention or programme, thus affecting the generalizability of results. This is particularly true for large-scale health programmes, for wh…
Programmatic pathways to child survival
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the expectations held by World Health Organization programme personnel about how the introduction of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy would lead to improvements in child health and nutrition, to compare these expectations with what was learned from the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI Effectiveness, Cost and Impact (MCE-IMCI), and to discuss the implications of these findings for child surviva…
MHealth Series
BACKGROUND: An important issue for mHealth evaluation is the lack of information for sample size calculations. OBJECTIVE: To explore factors that influence sample size calculations for mHealth-based studies and to suggest strategies for increasing the participation rate. METHODS: We explored factors influencing recruitment and follow-up of participants (caregivers of children) in an mHealth text messaging data collection cross-over study. With he…
Child health security in China
Inequality in early childhood neurodevelopment in six poor rural counties of China
The early childhood neurodevelopment in the surveyed area is poor and unfair. Factors including household economic status, caregivers' depressive symptoms, learning material and family support for learning are significantly associated with children's suspected developmental delay and early developmental inequality. The results highlight the urgent need of monitoring child neurodevelopment in poor rural areas. Interventions targeting the caregiver…
Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys
BACKGROUND: To compare text messaging and face-to-face interviews to conduct a survey on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia. METHODS: Caregivers of young children able to send text messages in Zhao County in rural China were included in this crossover study. Villages (clusters) were randomized into two groups using the ratio 1:1.6 to account for an expected higher drop-out in group 2. In group 1, participants first completed the face-to-face and t…
Embedded research to advance primary health care
Realising renewed efforts to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage, manage health emergencies and create healthier populations requires integrated action on system-wide challenges. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on primary health care (PHC). Advancing PHC needs the support of a robust learning agenda—encompassing questions on how to improve both essential and emergency services, engage and empower communities and addr…
Medicine (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 works) · China (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works)