Nicole Minckas

Biographic Data

ID7738722
NAMENicole Minckas
GIVEN NAMESNicole
FAMILY NAMEMinckas
SIGNATUREMINCKAS N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-2650-443X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Well-being of health workers providing maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessAlya Hazfiarini, Martha Vazquez Corona et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Health workers providing maternal and newborn care can experience burnout and emotional distress, which harms their well-being and, consequently, their ability to deliver respectful care. The World Health Organization (WHO) Compendium on respectful maternal and newborn care identifies health workers’ well-being as a critical area for intervention, but no specific definition or domains of well-being exist for this group. We conducted a qualitative…

  • Financial and regulatory interventions to reduce unnecessary caesarean sections

    Open AccessRana Islamiah Zahroh, Alya Hazfiarini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Caesarean section (CS) is a life-saving procedure and a critical component of comprehensive obstetric care, yet CS rates are rising globally beyond levels justified by clinical indications. Growing evidence suggests that health system supply-side factors, such as provider payment models that financially reward CS over vaginal birth and the absence or weak enforcement of clinical guidelines, are contributing to this trend. Despite increasing conce…

  • Measuring experience of and satisfaction with newborn care

    Open AccessNicole Minckas, Rashmi Kharel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: Standardised measures on experience of care are essential to understanding the care women and newborns receive and to designing appropriate interventions and responses. This review builds on ongoing work in the realm of maternity care and complements it by reviewing existing tools and measures to assess experience of and satisfaction with the care of the newborn. METHODS: We conducted a scoping review of published literature to identi…

  • Risk factors for violence against women in high-prevalence settings

    Open AccessJenevieve Mannell, Hattie Lowe et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Small and sick newborn care during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessSuman P N Rao, Nicole Minckas et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting health systems globally. Maternity care disruptions have been surveyed, but not those related to vulnerable small newborns. We aimed to survey reported disruptions to small and sick newborn care worldwide and undertake thematic analysis of healthcare providers' experiences and proposed mitigation strategies. METHODS: Using a widely disseminated online survey in three languages, we reached out to n…

  • Disrespect and abuse as a predictor of postnatal care utilisation and maternal-newborn well-being

    Open AccessNicole Minckas, Lu Gram et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

  • ‘My story is like a magic wand’

    Open AccessKasonde Mwaba, Gamze Şenyürek et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Telling one's personal story of violence can both support women's agency and contribute to the collective struggle against violence against women more broadly

  • Mental health of women and children experiencing family violence in conflict settings

    Open AccessDelan Devakumar, Alexis Palfreyman et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2021

    Family violence was common in conflict settings and was associated with mental health outcomes, but the studies were too heterogenous to determine whether prevalence or risk was greater than in non-conflict settings. The review highlights an urgent need for more robust data on perpetrators, forms of family violence, and mental health outcomes in conflict-affected settings in order to help understand the magnitude of the problem and identify poten…

  • Feasibility of Conducting a Trial Assessing Benefits and Risks of Planned Caesarean Section Versus Planned Vaginal Birth

    Open AccessMelissa Amyx, Fernando Althabe et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2021

  • The role of participation and community mobilisation in preventing violence against women and girls

    Open AccessNicole Minckas, Gary Shannon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    BACKGROUND: Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a public health problem and one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world. Recently practitioners and researchers have taken an interest in community participation as a strategy for preventing VAWG. Despite the recent enthusiasm however, there has been little articulation of how participation in VAWG prevention programmes mobilises communities to challenge social norms and pr…

  • How Should Trainees Respond in Situations of Obstetric Violence

    Open AccessNicholas Rubashkin, Nicole MinckasARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2018

    Argentina passed a law for humanized birth in 2004 and another law against obstetric violence in 2009, both of which stipulate the rights of women to achieve respectful maternity care. Clinicians and women might still be unaware of these laws, however. In this article, we discuss the case of a fourth-year medical student who, while visiting Argentina from the United States for his obstetric rotation, witnesses an act of obstetric violence. We sho…

  • Análisis espacial del sobrepeso y la obesidad infantil en el Perú, 2014

    Open AccessAkram Hernández-Vásquez, Guido Bendezu-Quispe et al.ARTICLERevista Peruana de Medicina…2016

    The highest prevalence of overweight and obesity were identified in the Peruvian coast regions. Moreover, these regions are predominantly exhibited a spatial clustering of districts with high prevalence of overweight and obesity