Ariel Higgins‐Steele

Datos Biográficos

ID7767192
NOMBREAriel Higgins‐Steele
NOMBRESAriel
APELLIDOHiggins‐Steele
FIRMASTEELE A H
AFILIACIONESWorld Health Organization - Afghanistan
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Recording vaccine doses administered

    Open AccessAriel Higgins-Steele, Ariel Higgins‐Steele et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Most countries use tally sheets across immunization programmes for health workers to mark vaccine doses administered to every person, alongside home-based records, yet their design and use is poorly understood at the global level. This paper presents a multi-country analysis on routine childhood immunization tally sheet content and design sourced from the annual electronic WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form on Immunization (eJRF), which collected th…

  • Effective partnership and in-country resource mobilization in Sudan for cVDPV2 outbreak response amid multiple emergencies in 2020–2021

    Open AccessMohammed Taufiq Mashal, Dalya Eltayeb et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    During an outbreak response and challenge of funding shortfall, mobilizing in-country resources is possible through coordinated approaches, regular communication with partners, disaggregation of needs, and matching in-kind and financial support to fill gaps. A cVDPV2 outbreak requires a fast, resourced, and quality response to stop virus circulation

  • Home-based records for poor mothers and children in Afghanistan, a cross sectional population based study

    Open AccessSayed Ataullah Saeedzai, Said Iftekhar Sadaat et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    We were able to achieve almost universal coverage of our new MCH HBR in our study area in Afghanistan. The handbook will be scaled up over the next three years across all of Afghanistan and will include close monitoring and assessment of coverage and use by all families

  • Towards universal health coverage and sustainable financing in Afghanistan

    Open AccessAriel Higgins-Steele, Ariel Higgins‐Steele et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2018

  • Scaling up newborn care in Afghanistan

    Open AccessMalalai Naziri, Ariel Higgins-Steele et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018Referencias: 52

    Newborn health in Afghanistan is receiving increased attention, but reduction in newborn deaths there has not kept pace with declines in maternal and child mortality. Using the continuum of care and health systems building block frameworks, this article identifies, organizes and provides a synthesis of the available evidence on and gaps in coverage of care and health systems, programmes, policies and practices related to newborn health in Afghani…

  • Improving immunization in Afghanistan

    Open AccessRaveesha, Farooq Mansoor et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    The innovative mechanism of contracting out delivery of primary health care services in Afghanistan, including immunization, to non-governmental organizations is showing some positive results in quickly increasing coverage of essential interventions, including routine immunization. Much ground still needs to be covered with proper planning and management of resources in order to improve the immunization coverage in Afghanistan and increase surviv…

  • Stop stunting

    Open AccessAriel Higgins‐Steele, Piyali Mustaphi et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    While Afghanistan has made progress in improving the nutritional status of children and women, rates of under-nutrition, stunting and wasting remain among the highest in the world, requiring attention to address immediate and underlying causes (Varkey et al. 2015). Given potential human, societal and economic gains from investment in nutrition (Branca et al. 2015) reducing the dual burden of acute and chronic undernutrition must figure among soci…