Nabila Zaka

Biographic Data

ID7826256
NAMENabila Zaka
GIVEN NAMESNabila
FAMILY NAMEZaka
SIGNATUREZAKA N
AFFILIATIONSUnited Nations Children's Fund
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Implementing maternal and newborn health quality of care standards in healthcare facilities to improve the adoption of respectful maternity care in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania

    Open AccessAlexander Manu, Veronica Pingray et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Many women worldwide cannot access respectful maternity care (RMC). We assessed the effect of implementing maternal and newborn health (MNH) quality of care standards on RMC measures. METHODS: We used a facility-based controlled before and after design in 43 healthcare facilities in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania. Interviews with women and health workers and observations of labour and childbirth were used for data collection. We est…

  • Equity trends for the UHC service coverage sub-index for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Pakistan

    Open AccessNabila Zaka, Maida Umar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2023

    Analysing existing data sources from an equity lens supports evidence-based policies, programs and practices with a focus on disadvantaged subgroups

  • Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania

    Open AccessAlexander Manu, Sk Massum Billah et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Facility interventions to improve quality of care around childbirth are known but need to be packaged, tested and institutionalised within health systems to impact on maternal and newborn outcomes. METHODS: We conducted cross-sectional assessments at baseline (2016) and after 18 months of provider-led implementation of UNICEF/WHO's Every Mother Every Newborn Quality Improvement (EMEN-QI) standards (preceding the WHO Standards for im…

  • “Every Newborn-BIRTH” protocol

    Open AccessLouise T Day, Harriet Ruysen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: - Birth Indicators Research Tracking in Hospitals (EN-BIRTH) study aims to validate selected newborn and maternal indicators for routine tracking of coverage and quality of facility-based care for use at district, national and global levels. METHODS: EN-BIRTH is an observational study including >20 000 facility births in three countries (Tanzania, Bangladesh and Nepal) to validate selected indicators. Direct clinical observation will …

  • Gap between contact and content in maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessLiliana Carvajal–Aguirre, Agbessi Amouzou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Over the last decade, coverage of maternal and newborn health indicators used for global monitoring and reporting have increased substantially but reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality have remained slow. This has led to an increased recognition and concern that these standard globally agreed upon measures of antenatal care (ANC), skilled birth attendance (SBA) and postnatal care (PNC) only capture the level of contacts with t…

  • Does health facility service environment matter for the receipt of essential newborn care? Linking health facility and household survey data in Malawi

    Open AccessLiliana Carvajal–Aguirre, Vrinda Mehra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Health facility service environment is an important factor for newborns survival and well-being in general and in particular in high mortality settings such as Malawi where despite high coverage of essential interventions, neonatal mortality remains high. The aim of this study is to assess whether the quality of the health service environment at birth is associated with quality of care received by the newborn. METHODS: We used data fr…