Giulia Greco
Biographic Data
| ID | 88891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giulia Greco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giulia |
| FAMILY NAME | Greco |
| SIGNATURE | GRECO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5448-9521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Happiness and life satisfaction: Understanding the effects of question order on subjective wellbeing measures in India
"Butterflies in a jar": How girls and young women conceptualise wellbeing in conflict-affected Myanmar
Since the 2021 coup in Myanmar, the country has been driven into further social, political and economic turmoil. The United Nations estimates that 18.6 million people need humanitarian support. Among those most affected are adolescent girls aged 10-19 years who, as adolescents and young women, face unique risks to their health and wellbeing and require tailored interventions to promote their health and wellbeing both now and in the future. Suppor…
I know your problems; take your bag and go home”: A qualitative study using the social-ecological model to understand drivers of suboptimal school and social participation among secondary schoolgirls …
The findings suggest that drivers of suboptimal social and school participation among secondary schoolgirls exist at the individual, interpersonal relationship, school, and societal levels. Multi-level evidence-based multicomponent interventions to improve menstrual health at all socio-ecological levels are warranted for optimal social and school participation among schoolgirls
Halfway There, Long Way to Go: The Role of People’s Agency in the Final Years of the Sustainable Development Goals
As we mark the anniversary of the publication of the 2030 Agenda mid-term report, the world's nations stand at a crossroads. While off-track in achieving most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), multiple crises have further exposed deep inequalities and vulnerabilities in the current dominant approach centred on economic growth and resource allocations. In this editorial paper, scholars of the human development and capability association and ed…
The economic burden incurred by families caring for a young child with developmental disability in Uganda
Each year, nearly 30 million children globally are at risk of developmental difficulties and disability as a result of newborn health conditions, with the majority living in resource-constrained countries. This study estimates the annual cost to families related to caring for a young child with developmental disability in Uganda. Nested within a feasibility trial of early care and support for young children with developmental disabilities, this s…
A new sexual wellbeing paradigm grounded in capability approach concepts of human flourishing and social justice
Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing interest in measuring sexual wellbeing, including by a WHO/UNFPA working group in 2007, which sought clarity on key dimensions and asked for indicators of these to be devised. However, there remains a lack of conceptual clarity surrounding the concept of sexual wellbeing, which may create variation in what is being assessed and to what we are referring. This paper proposes one way in which to a…
Asia through the Eyes of a Medieval Dominican Friar: Galvaneus Flamma’s Cumulative Reuse of Geographical Sources
The third book of Galvaneus’s Cronica universalis contains an extensive geographical digression, which makes use of three kinds of sources: encyclopedic material, rather recent travel accounts (the ones by Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone, John of Pian di Carpine, John of Montecorvino and by a mysterious Dominican friar called Simon) and, most likely, oral testimonies. This article examines Galvaneus’s re-use of geographical sources, by reproducin…
Geography in Galvaneus Flamma’s Cronica Universalis
How does sanitation influence people's quality of life? Qualitative research in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique
Preventing infectious disease has often been the primary rationale for public investment in sanitation. However, broader aspects of sanitation such as privacy and safety are important to users across settings, and have been linked to mental wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate what people most value about sanitation in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique, to inform a definition and conceptual model of sanitation-related quality o…
Preventing violence against children in schools (PVACS): Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the EmpaTeach behavioural intervention in Nyarugusu refugee camp
NCT03745573 , registered November 19, 2018 at clinicaltrials.gov, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03745573
Development, Validity, and Reliability of the Women’s Capabilities Index
We report the results of a series of validity and reliability tests performed during the development of the Women's Capabilities Index (WCI) in Malawi. The WCI is a multidimensional measure based on Sen's capability framework for assessing women's quality of life. Construct validity was assessed by investigating the expected relationships of the dimensions with key socioeconomic characteristics. The majority of hypothesized associations were foun…
Comparing women's financial costs of induced abortion at a facility vs. seeking treatment for complications from unsafe abortion in Zambia
Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women when they have an induced abortion at a facility, with costs for an induced abortion outside a facility, followed by care for abortion-related complications. We gathered household wealth data at one point in time (T1) and longitudinal qualitative data at two points in ti…
"Power, Social Exclusion and the "Good Life: The Importance of Measuring What Really Counts
Marmot's (2015
Malawi three district evaluation: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
Malawi is one of few low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to have met the fourth Millennium Development Goal for child survival (MDG 4). To accelerate progress towards MDGs, the Malawi Ministry of Health's Reproductive Health Unit - in partnership with Save the Children, UNICEF and others - implemented a Community Based Maternal and Newborn Care (CBMNC) package, integrated within the existing community-based system. Multi-purpose Health Sur…
Overview, methods and results of multi-country community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
Home visits for pregnancy and postnatal care were endorsed by the WHO and partners as a complementary strategy to facility-based care to reduce newborn and maternal mortality. This article aims to synthesise findings and implications from the economic analyses of community-based maternal and newborn care (CBMNC) evaluations in seven countries. The evaluations included five cluster randomized trials (Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda…
Setting the Weights: The Women’s Capabilities Index for Malawi
Standard indicators of wellbeing such as the QALY for health and GDP per capita for economic development have been increasingly regarded as being too narrow in focus. There is a need to develop multidimensional measures of wellbeing that encompass the full range of factors that make life worth living. This study is part of a project that aims at developing a multidimensional index based on Sen's capability framework to assess women's wellbeing in…
Costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households: A cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Little is known about the costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households. Our aim was to study both costs and consequences of induced and spontaneous abortions and complications. We carried out a cross-sectional study between February and September 2012 in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Quantitative data of 305 women whose pregnancy ended with either an induced or a spontaneous abortion were prospectively collec…
What is a good life? Selecting capabilities to assess women's quality of life in rural Malawi
Collecting and analysing cost data for complex public health trials: Reflections on practice
BACKGROUND: Current guidelines for the conduct of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) are mainly applicable to facility-based interventions in high-income settings. Differences in the unit of analysis and the high cost of data collection can make these guidelines challenging to follow within public health trials in low- and middle- income settings. OBJECTIVE: This paper reflects on the challenges experienced within our own work and proposes solutio…
What is a good life? Selecting capabilities to assess women's quality of life in rural Malawi
Development, Validity, and Reliability of the Women’s Capabilities Index
We report the results of a series of validity and reliability tests performed during the development of the Women's Capabilities Index (WCI) in Malawi. The WCI is a multidimensional measure based on Sen's capability framework for assessing women's quality of life. Construct validity was assessed by investigating the expected relationships of the dimensions with key socioeconomic characteristics. The majority of hypothesized associations were foun…
Overview, methods and results of multi-country community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
Home visits for pregnancy and postnatal care were endorsed by the WHO and partners as a complementary strategy to facility-based care to reduce newborn and maternal mortality. This article aims to synthesise findings and implications from the economic analyses of community-based maternal and newborn care (CBMNC) evaluations in seven countries. The evaluations included five cluster randomized trials (Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda…
Setting the Weights: The Women’s Capabilities Index for Malawi
Standard indicators of wellbeing such as the QALY for health and GDP per capita for economic development have been increasingly regarded as being too narrow in focus. There is a need to develop multidimensional measures of wellbeing that encompass the full range of factors that make life worth living. This study is part of a project that aims at developing a multidimensional index based on Sen's capability framework to assess women's wellbeing in…
How does sanitation influence people's quality of life? Qualitative research in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique
Preventing infectious disease has often been the primary rationale for public investment in sanitation. However, broader aspects of sanitation such as privacy and safety are important to users across settings, and have been linked to mental wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate what people most value about sanitation in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique, to inform a definition and conceptual model of sanitation-related quality o…
Malawi three district evaluation: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
Malawi is one of few low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to have met the fourth Millennium Development Goal for child survival (MDG 4). To accelerate progress towards MDGs, the Malawi Ministry of Health's Reproductive Health Unit - in partnership with Save the Children, UNICEF and others - implemented a Community Based Maternal and Newborn Care (CBMNC) package, integrated within the existing community-based system. Multi-purpose Health Sur…
Costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households: A cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Little is known about the costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households. Our aim was to study both costs and consequences of induced and spontaneous abortions and complications. We carried out a cross-sectional study between February and September 2012 in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Quantitative data of 305 women whose pregnancy ended with either an induced or a spontaneous abortion were prospectively collec…
Comparing women's financial costs of induced abortion at a facility vs. seeking treatment for complications from unsafe abortion in Zambia
Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women when they have an induced abortion at a facility, with costs for an induced abortion outside a facility, followed by care for abortion-related complications. We gathered household wealth data at one point in time (T1) and longitudinal qualitative data at two points in ti…
"Power, Social Exclusion and the "Good Life: The Importance of Measuring What Really Counts
Marmot's (2015
Collecting and analysing cost data for complex public health trials: Reflections on practice
BACKGROUND: Current guidelines for the conduct of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) are mainly applicable to facility-based interventions in high-income settings. Differences in the unit of analysis and the high cost of data collection can make these guidelines challenging to follow within public health trials in low- and middle- income settings. OBJECTIVE: This paper reflects on the challenges experienced within our own work and proposes solutio…
Costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households: A cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Little is known about the costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households. Our aim was to study both costs and consequences of induced and spontaneous abortions and complications. We carried out a cross-sectional study between February and September 2012 in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Quantitative data of 305 women whose pregnancy ended with either an induced or a spontaneous abortion were prospectively collec…
What is a good life? Selecting capabilities to assess women's quality of life in rural Malawi
Setting the Weights: The Women’s Capabilities Index for Malawi
Standard indicators of wellbeing such as the QALY for health and GDP per capita for economic development have been increasingly regarded as being too narrow in focus. There is a need to develop multidimensional measures of wellbeing that encompass the full range of factors that make life worth living. This study is part of a project that aims at developing a multidimensional index based on Sen's capability framework to assess women's wellbeing in…
Malawi three district evaluation: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
Malawi is one of few low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to have met the fourth Millennium Development Goal for child survival (MDG 4). To accelerate progress towards MDGs, the Malawi Ministry of Health's Reproductive Health Unit - in partnership with Save the Children, UNICEF and others - implemented a Community Based Maternal and Newborn Care (CBMNC) package, integrated within the existing community-based system. Multi-purpose Health Sur…
Overview, methods and results of multi-country community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
Home visits for pregnancy and postnatal care were endorsed by the WHO and partners as a complementary strategy to facility-based care to reduce newborn and maternal mortality. This article aims to synthesise findings and implications from the economic analyses of community-based maternal and newborn care (CBMNC) evaluations in seven countries. The evaluations included five cluster randomized trials (Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda…
Development, Validity, and Reliability of the Women’s Capabilities Index
We report the results of a series of validity and reliability tests performed during the development of the Women's Capabilities Index (WCI) in Malawi. The WCI is a multidimensional measure based on Sen's capability framework for assessing women's quality of life. Construct validity was assessed by investigating the expected relationships of the dimensions with key socioeconomic characteristics. The majority of hypothesized associations were foun…
Comparing women's financial costs of induced abortion at a facility vs. seeking treatment for complications from unsafe abortion in Zambia
Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women when they have an induced abortion at a facility, with costs for an induced abortion outside a facility, followed by care for abortion-related complications. We gathered household wealth data at one point in time (T1) and longitudinal qualitative data at two points in ti…
"Power, Social Exclusion and the "Good Life: The Importance of Measuring What Really Counts
Marmot's (2015
Preventing violence against children in schools (PVACS): Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the EmpaTeach behavioural intervention in Nyarugusu refugee camp
NCT03745573 , registered November 19, 2018 at clinicaltrials.gov, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03745573
How does sanitation influence people's quality of life? Qualitative research in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique
Preventing infectious disease has often been the primary rationale for public investment in sanitation. However, broader aspects of sanitation such as privacy and safety are important to users across settings, and have been linked to mental wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate what people most value about sanitation in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique, to inform a definition and conceptual model of sanitation-related quality o…
Asia through the Eyes of a Medieval Dominican Friar: Galvaneus Flamma’s Cumulative Reuse of Geographical Sources
The third book of Galvaneus’s Cronica universalis contains an extensive geographical digression, which makes use of three kinds of sources: encyclopedic material, rather recent travel accounts (the ones by Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone, John of Pian di Carpine, John of Montecorvino and by a mysterious Dominican friar called Simon) and, most likely, oral testimonies. This article examines Galvaneus’s re-use of geographical sources, by reproducin…
Geography in Galvaneus Flamma’s Cronica Universalis
The economic burden incurred by families caring for a young child with developmental disability in Uganda
Each year, nearly 30 million children globally are at risk of developmental difficulties and disability as a result of newborn health conditions, with the majority living in resource-constrained countries. This study estimates the annual cost to families related to caring for a young child with developmental disability in Uganda. Nested within a feasibility trial of early care and support for young children with developmental disabilities, this s…
A new sexual wellbeing paradigm grounded in capability approach concepts of human flourishing and social justice
Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing interest in measuring sexual wellbeing, including by a WHO/UNFPA working group in 2007, which sought clarity on key dimensions and asked for indicators of these to be devised. However, there remains a lack of conceptual clarity surrounding the concept of sexual wellbeing, which may create variation in what is being assessed and to what we are referring. This paper proposes one way in which to a…
Halfway There, Long Way to Go: The Role of People’s Agency in the Final Years of the Sustainable Development Goals
As we mark the anniversary of the publication of the 2030 Agenda mid-term report, the world's nations stand at a crossroads. While off-track in achieving most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), multiple crises have further exposed deep inequalities and vulnerabilities in the current dominant approach centred on economic growth and resource allocations. In this editorial paper, scholars of the human development and capability association and ed…
"Butterflies in a jar": How girls and young women conceptualise wellbeing in conflict-affected Myanmar
Since the 2021 coup in Myanmar, the country has been driven into further social, political and economic turmoil. The United Nations estimates that 18.6 million people need humanitarian support. Among those most affected are adolescent girls aged 10-19 years who, as adolescents and young women, face unique risks to their health and wellbeing and require tailored interventions to promote their health and wellbeing both now and in the future. Suppor…
I know your problems; take your bag and go home”: A qualitative study using the social-ecological model to understand drivers of suboptimal school and social participation among secondary schoolgirls …
The findings suggest that drivers of suboptimal social and school participation among secondary schoolgirls exist at the individual, interpersonal relationship, school, and societal levels. Multi-level evidence-based multicomponent interventions to improve menstrual health at all socio-ecological levels are warranted for optimal social and school participation among schoolgirls
Happiness and life satisfaction: Understanding the effects of question order on subjective wellbeing measures in India
Medicine (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (5 works)