Mallory Michalak

• Facility-based care for moderately low birthweight infants in India, Malawi, and Tanzania

  Open Access•Katherine E A Semrau, Rana R Mokhtar et al.•ARTICLE•PLOS Global Public Health•2023

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  Globally, increasing rates of facility-based childbirth enable early intervention for small vulnerable newborns. We describe health system-level inputs, current feeding, and discharge practices for moderately low birthweight (MLBW) infants (1500- 10% less than their birthweight; 18.8% of infants were discharged with weights below facility-specific policy [1800g in India, 1500g in Malawi, and 2000g in Tanzania]. Based on descriptive analysis, we f…

• Task shifting for maternal and neonatal care in low-resource settings

  Mallory Michalak, Shay E Slifko et al.•ARTICLE•Health Care For Women International•2022

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  In an effort to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, a rural health system in Papua New Guinea implemented a two-week midwifery training program for 47 nurses and community health workers. We evaluated this program by administering pre- and post-training knowledge tests, focus group discussions, a clinical vignette task, and key informant interviews. Participants improved significantly in their midwifery knowledge and demonstrated effective ca…

• Task shifting for maternal and neonatal care in low-resource settings

  Mallory Michalak, Shay E Slifko et al.•ARTICLE•Health Care For Women International•2022

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  In an effort to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, a rural health system in Papua New Guinea implemented a two-week midwifery training program for 47 nurses and community health workers. We evaluated this program by administering pre- and post-training knowledge tests, focus group discussions, a clinical vignette task, and key informant interviews. Participants improved significantly in their midwifery knowledge and demonstrated effective ca…

• Facility-based care for moderately low birthweight infants in India, Malawi, and Tanzania

  Open Access•Katherine E A Semrau, Rana R Mokhtar et al.•ARTICLE•PLOS Global Public Health•2023

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  Globally, increasing rates of facility-based childbirth enable early intervention for small vulnerable newborns. We describe health system-level inputs, current feeding, and discharge practices for moderately low birthweight (MLBW) infants (1500- 10% less than their birthweight; 18.8% of infants were discharged with weights below facility-specific policy [1800g in India, 1500g in Malawi, and 2000g in Tanzania]. Based on descriptive analysis, we f…

Environmental health (2 obras) · Medicine (2 obras) · Obstetrics (2 obras) · Population (2 obras) · Anthropometry (1 obras) · Breast milk (1 obras) · Breastfeeding (1 obras) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (1 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (1 obras) · Focus group (1 obras)