Jalemba Aluvaala

Datos Biográficos

ID9019113
NOMBREJalemba Aluvaala
NOMBRESJalemba
APELLIDOAluvaala
FIRMAALUVAALA J
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Nairobi
ORCID0000-0002-0851-3711
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Levels of care for maternal and neonatal healthcare

    Open AccessShaina Mackin, Louise Tina Day et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2026

    Background: To meet the 2030 aims of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health and Sustainable Development Goals, annual rates of maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirth must decrease. The organisation of maternal and newborn health (MNH) services influences access to and quality of care. We designed this scoping review to understand how levels of MNH care are organised in different country contexts. Methods: We co…

  • Perceived accuracy and utilisation of DHIS2 data for health decision making and advocacy in Kenya

    Open AccessPhoene Mesa Oware, Gregory Omondi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Reliable health information systems (HIS) are critical for effective decision-making in the delivery of Primary Health Care and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (PHC/RMNCAH+N) services. In Kenya, the District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) platform serves as the primary HIS for tracking health indicators. This qualitative study explored perceptions of DHIS2 data accuracy and use for decision-making am…

  • Effect of diet video-drama and telephone messages on improving parental knowledge and diet diversity of malnourished children in Kenya

    Open AccessBeatrice C Mutai, Fred Were et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) accounts for 1 million deaths globally each year. Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), recommended for treatment, is often replaced with low-nutrient home foods. We sought to determine the effect of enhanced caregiver counselling, using a dramatized video with contextualized demonstrations of local high-nutrient food (video-drama) and telephone messages on high-nutrient foods (SMS), on children’s dietary diversity…

  • Developing context-sensitive, comprehensive newborn care protocols

    Open AccessGrace Irimu, Edith Gicheha et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: An estimated 2.3 million neonates die worldwide each year (47% of under-five mortality), with 75% occurring during the first week of life. The burden is highest in sub-Saharan Africa (n/N = 27/1000 neonatal mortality rate) and largely results from preventable conditions, such as prematurity, birth asphyxia, and infections. The Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) programme supports health systems in resource-constrai…

  • Development of a small and sick newborn clinical audit tool and its implementation guide using a human-centred design approach newborn clinical audit process and design

    Open AccessMuthoni Ogola, John Wainaina et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Clinical audits are an important intervention that enables health workers to reflect on their practice and identify and act on modifiable gaps in the care provided. To effectively audit the quality of care provided to the small and sick newborns, the clinical audit process must use a structured tool that comprehensively covers the continuum of newborn care from immediately after birth to the period of newborn unit care. The objective of the study…

  • Improving in-patient neonatal data quality as a pre-requisite for monitoring and improving quality of care at scale

    Open AccessTimothy Tuti, Jalemba Aluvaala et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The objectives of this study were to (1)explore the quality of clinical data generated from hospitals providing in-patient neonatal care participating in a clinical information network (CIN) and whether data improved over time, and if data are adequate, (2)characterise accuracy of prescribing for basic treatments provided to neonatal in-patients over time. This was a retrospective cohort study involving neonates ≤28 days admitted between January …

  • Quantitative decision making for investment in global health intervention trials

    Open AccessAnnie Stylianou, Keona J H Blanks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Partners from an NGO, academia, industry and government applied a tool originating in the private sector - Quantitative Decision Making (QDM) - to rigorously assess whether to invest in testing a global health intervention. The proposed NEWBORN study was designed to assess whether topical emollient therapy with sunflower seed oil in infants with very low birthweight <1500 g in Kenya would result in a significant reduction in neonatal …

  • Employing learning health system principles to advance research on severe neonatal and paediatric illness in Kenya

    Open AccessMike English, Grace Irimu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    We have worked to develop a Clinical Information Network (CIN) in Kenya as an early form of learning health systems (LHS) focused on paediatric and neonatal care that now spans 22 hospitals. CIN’s aim was to examine important outcomes of hospitalisation at scale, identify and ultimately solve practical problems of service delivery, drive improvements in quality and test interventions. By including multiple routine settings in research, we aimed t…

  • Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals

    Open AccessGrace Irimu, Jalemba Aluvaala et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Most of the deaths among neonates in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) can be prevented through universal access to basic high-quality health services including essential facility-based inpatient care. However, poor routine data undermines data-informed efforts to monitor and promote improvements in the quality of newborn care across hospitals. METHODS: Continuously collected routine patients' data from structured paper r…