Mary V Kinney

Datos Biográficos

ID6330726
NOMBREMary V Kinney
NOMBRESMary V
APELLIDOKinney
FIRMAKINNEY M V
AFILIACIONESUniversity of the Western Cape
ORCID0000-0002-2903-0161
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS19
TOTAL DE CITAS45
TOTAL COMO AUTOR19
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H4

  • Measuring respectful maternal and newborn care in Nepal

    Open AccessOmkar Basnet, Emma Sacks et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Background Respectful maternal and newborn care is the cornerstone of high-quality care, however, measuring experience of respectful care has challenges since it can be subjective, and dependent on expectations. In this study, we assess the concordance between women’s reported experiences of respectful maternal and newborn care and independent observation of their care in Nepal. Methods This is a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study a…

  • Unwrapping the Global Financing Facility

    Open AccessMary V Kinney, Doris Kwesiga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    The Global Financing Facility (GFF), launched in 2015, aims to catalyse funding for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and nutrition. Few independent assessments have evaluated its processes and impact. We conducted a multi-layered policy analysis of GFF documents - the Investment Cases (ICs) and the GFF-linked World Bank Project Appraisal Documents (PADs) - examining the content of GFF documents for 28 countries, comp…

  • Who is at the table and who has the power? Case study analysis of decision-making processes for the Global Financing Facility in Tanzania

    Open AccessDonat Shamba, J Baraka et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: In 2015, Tanzania joined the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a global health initiative for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N). Despite its resource mobilization goals, little is known about power dynamics in GFF policy processes. This paper presents the first power analysis of Tanzania's GFF engagement. OBJECTIVE: To examine policy processes in developing GFF documents during its f…

  • Behind the billions

    Open AccessAsha George, Mary V Kinney et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

  • Sailing global health initiative ships into stormy seas

    Open AccessAndes Chivangue, Mary V Kinney et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: Mozambique joined the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a financing mechanism to accelerate progress for women, children, and adolescents' health, with a history of donor dependence, distrust in public finances, and social inequities. Few independent studies have assessed the GFF. OBJECTIVES: To understand how a global mechanism, such as the GFF, was introduced and utilized in Mozambique. METHODS: This qualitative study explored the ai…

  • Any better? A follow-up content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health inclusion in Global Financing Facility country planning documents

    Open AccessUlla Walmisley, Mary Kinney et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: The Global Financing Facility (GFF) supports national reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health, and nutrition needs. Previous analysis examined how adolescent sexual and reproductive health was represented in GFF national planning documents for 11 GFF partner countries. OBJECTIVES: This paper furthers that analysis for 16 GFF partner countries as part of a Special Series. METHODS: Content analysis was conducted on pub…

  • Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health

    Open AccessMeghan Bruce Kumar, Mary V Kinney et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Improving quality of care could avert most of the 4.5 million maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths that occur each year. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) aims to catalyse the national scale-up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions through focused investments. Achieving impact and value for money requires high, equitable coverage and high quality of interventions. This study examines whether the rhetoric of increasing cover…

  • Influences on policy-formulation, decision-making, organisation and management for maternal, newborn and child health in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda

    Open AccessKohenour Akter, Yusra Ribhi Shawar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) is intended to facilitate learning, action, leadership and accountability for improving quality of care in member countries. This requires legitimacy—a network’s right to exert power within national contexts. This is reflected, for example, in a government’s buy-in and perceived ownership of the work of the network. During 2019–2022 we conducted iterative round…

  • Individual interactions in a multi-country implementation-focused quality of care network for maternal, newborn and child health

    Open AccessFidele Kanyimbu Mukinda, Nehla Djellouli et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) was established to build a cross-country platform for joint-learning around quality improvement implementation approaches to reduce mortality. This paper describes and explores the structure of the QCN in four countries and at global level. Using Social Network Analysis (SNA), this cross-sectional study maps the QCN networks at global level and in four countrie…

  • Exploring the sustainability of perinatal audit in four district hospitals in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Open AccessMary V Kinney, Anne‐Marie Bergh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) is an intervention process that uses a continuous cycle of identification, notification and review of deaths to determine avoidable causes followed by actions to improve health services and prevent future deaths. This study set out to understand how and why a perinatal audit programme, a form of MPDSR, has sustained practice in South Africa from the perspectives of those…

  • Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessMary V Kinney, David Roger Walugembe et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR), or any form of maternal and/or perinatal death review or audit, aims to improve health services and pre-empt future maternal and perinatal deaths. With expansion of MPDSR across low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), we conducted a scoping review to identify and describe implementation factors and their interactions. The review adapted an implementation framework with four domains …

  • Effect of the Covid-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal

    Open AccessApil Kc, Ashish KC et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic response is affecting maternal and neonatal health services all over the world. We aimed to assess the number of institutional births, their outcomes (institutional stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate), and quality of intrapartum care before and during the national COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal. METHODS: In this prospective observational study, we collected participant-level data for pregnant women enrolled in th…

  • Stillbirths

    Open AccessAlexander Heazell, Alexander E P Heazell et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

  • Stillbirths

    Open AccessJoy Elizabeth Lawn, Hannah Blencowe et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

    An estimated 2.6 million third trimester stillbirths occurred in 2015 (uncertainty range 2.4-3.0 million). The number of stillbirths has reduced more slowly than has maternal mortality or mortality in children younger than 5 years, which were explicitly targeted in the Millennium Development Goals. The Every Newborn Action Plan has the target of 12 or fewer stillbirths per 1000 births in every country by 2030. 94 mainly high-income countries and …

  • Newborn survival

    Open AccessJoy Elizabeth Lawn, Mary V Kinney et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2013

    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…

  • Newborn survival in Malawi

    Open AccessEvelyn Zimba, Mary Kinney et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012Citada por: 13Referencias: 24

    Malawi is one of two low-income sub-Saharan African countries on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG 4) for child survival despite high fertility and HIV and low health worker density. With neonatal deaths becoming an increasing proportion of under-five deaths, addressing newborn survival is critical for achieving MDG 4. We examine change for newborn survival in the decade 2000–10, analysing mortality and coverage indicators whilst…

  • Newborn survival

    Open AccessJoy Elizabeth Lawn, Mary Kinney et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012Citada por: 13Referencias: 56

    Neonatal deaths account for 40% of global under-five mortality and are ever more important if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival. We applied a results framework to evaluate global and national changes for neonatal mortality rates (NMR), healthy behaviours, intervention coverage, health system change, and inputs including funding, while considering contextual changes. The average annual rate of reduction …

  • Newborn survival in Pakistan

    Open AccessAmanullah Khan, Mary Kinney et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012Citada por: 6Referencias: 38

    Pakistan has the world's third highest national number of newborn deaths (194 000 in 2010). Major national challenges over the past decade have affected health and development including several large humanitarian disasters, destabilizing political insurgency, high levels of poverty and an often hard-to-reach predominately rural population with diverse practices. As part of a multi-country analysis, we examined changes for newborn survival between…

  • Newborn survival in Nepal

    Open AccessY V Pradhan, Shyam Raj Upreti et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012Citada por: 13Referencias: 32

    Nepal is on target to meet the Millennium Development Goals for maternal and child health despite high levels of poverty, poor infrastructure, difficult terrain and recent conflict. Each year, nearly 35,000 Nepali children die before their fifth birthday, with almost two-thirds of these deaths occurring in the first month of life, the neonatal period. As part of a multi-country analysis, we examined changes for newborn survival between 2000 and 2…