Mary H Hodges

Biographic Data

ID6701201
NAMEMary H Hodges
GIVEN NAMESMary H
FAMILY NAMEHodges
SIGNATUREHODGES M H
AFFILIATIONSHelen Keller International
ORCID0000-0002-1776-7641
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Gender intersections identified whilst transitioning mass vitamin A supplementation into an integrated reproductive and child health programme in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAubrey Bauck, Umu H Jalloh et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Since 2006, Sierra Leone has achieved high rates of vitamin A supplementation (VAS) coverage (>88%) during mass campaigns. In 2017, campaigns started transitioning to routine VAS within a six-monthly contact point for integrated reproductive and child health (RCH) services. This contact point included improved counselling and provision of modern contraceptives; throughout this transition high VAS coverage (>85%) has been maintained. VAS programme…

  • Routine vitamin A supplementation and other high impact interventions in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAminata Shamit Koroma, Sulaiman Conteh et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    In 2017, transition to routine vitamin A supplementation (VAS) commenced as an integrated reproductive and child health service including vaccinations, Albendazole for deworming, complementary feeding demonstrations, 'quality' family planning counselling and provision of modern contraceptives. After 10 months, a lot quality assurance sampling survey evaluated coverage of these interventions. Each of three districts was divided into five supervisi…

  • Integrating Vitamin A Supplementation at 6 months into the Expanded Program of Immunization in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessMary H Hodges, Fatmata Sesay et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2015

    Since 2004, twice-yearly mass vitamin A supplementation (VAS) has equitably reached over 85% of children 6-59 months old in Sierra Leone. However infants who turn 6 months after the event may wait until they are 11 months old to receive their first dose. The effectiveness of integrating VAS at 6 months into the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) in a revised child health card was studied. Health facilities matched according to staff cadre and…

  • Changing Patterns of Health in Communities Impacted by a Bioenergy Project in Northern Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAstrid M Knoblauch, Mary Hodges et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2014

    Large private sector investments in low- and middle-income countries are often critically evaluated with regards to their environmental, social, human rights, and health impacts. A health impact assessment, including a baseline health survey, was commissioned by the Addax Bioenergy Sierra Leone project in 2010. As part of the monitoring, a follow-up survey was conducted three years later. A set of health indicators was assessed at six impacted an…

  • Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary

    Paul Rayson, Geoffrey Leech et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…1997Cited by: 23

    In this article, we undertake selective quantitative analyses of the demographi-cally-sampled spoken English component of the British National Corpus (for brevity, referred to here as the ''Conversational Corpus"). This is a subcorpus of c. 4.5 million words, in which speakers and respondents (see I below) are identified by such factors as gender, age, social group, and geographical region. Using a corpus analysis tool developed at Lancaster, we …