Kate Kerber

Dados Biográficos

ID1445813
NOMEKate Kerber
PRENOMESKate
SOBRENOMEKerber
ASSINATURAKERBER K
AFILIAÇÕESSave the Children
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES42
TOTAL COMO AUTOR28
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2007
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ÍNDICE H4

  • An analytic perspective of a mixed methods study during humanitarian crises in South Sudan

    Open AccessSamira Sami, Ribka Amsalu et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2021

    The case analysis provides lessons that are applicable to other humanitarian settings including the need for flexible research methods, budgets and timelines; innovative training and supervision; and a local research team with careful consideration of sociopolitical factors that impact their access and safety. Engagement of national and local stakeholders can ensure health services and data collection continue and findings translate to public hea…

  • Service readiness for inpatient care of small and sick newborns

    Open AccessSarah G Moxon, Tanya Guenther et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2018

    BACKGROUND: Each year an estimated 2.6 million newborns die, mainly from complications of prematurity, neonatal infections, and intrapartum events. Reducing these deaths requires high coverage of good quality care at birth, and inpatient care for small and sick newborns. In low- and middle-income countries, standardised measurement of the readiness of facilities to provide emergency obstetric care has improved tracking of readiness to provide car…

  • Consensus–based approach to develop a measurement framework and identify a core set of indicators to track implementation and progress towards effective coverage of facility–based Kangaroo Mother Care

    Open AccessTanya Guenther, Sarah G Moxon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: As efforts to scale up the delivery of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in facilities are increasing, a standardized approach to measure implementation and progress towards effective coverage is needed. Here, we describe a consensus-based approach to develop a measurement framework and identify a core set of indicators for monitoring facility-based KMC that would be feasible to measure within existing systems. METHODS: The KMC measurement f…

  • Comparing performance of methods used to identify pregnant women, pregnancy outcomes, and child mortality in the Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Uganda

    Open AccessDaniel Kadobera, Peter Waiswa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: In most low and middle-income countries vital events registration for births and child deaths is poor, with reporting of pregnancy outcomes highly inadequate or non-existent. Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites and periodic population-based household-level surveys can be used to identify pregnancies and retrospectively capture pregnancy outcomes to provide data for decision making. However, little is known about th…

  • Uganda Newborn Study (Unest) trial

    Open AccessElizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017Citada por: 2Referências: 21

    The Uganda Newborn Study (UNEST) was a two-arm cluster Randomized Control Trial to study the effect of pregnancy and postnatal home visits by local community health workers called 'Village Health Teams' (VHT) coupled with health systems strengthening. To inform programme planning and decision making, additional economic and financial costs of community and facility components were estimated from the perspective of the provider using the Excel-bas…

  • Overview, methods and results of multi-country community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis

    Open AccessEmmanuelle Daviaud, Helen Owen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017Citada por: 7Referências: 26

    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…

  • Multi-country analysis of the cost of community health workers kits and commodities for community-based maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessDiana Barger, Helen Owen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017Citada por: 2Referências: 24

    Community-based maternal and newborn care with home visits by community health workers (CHWs) are recommended by WHO to complement facility-based care. As part of multi-country economic and systems analyses, we aimed to compare the content and financial costs associated with equipping CHWs or 'home visit kits' from seven studies in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. We estimated the equivalent annual costs (EACs)…

  • You have to take action

    Open AccessSamira Sami, Kate Kerber et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2017Referências: 19

    Highest rates of neonatal mortality occur in countries that have recently experienced conflict. International Medical Corps implemented a package of newborn interventions in June 2016, based on the Newborn health in humanitarian settings: field guide, targeting community- and facility-based health workers in displaced person camps in South Sudan. We describe health workers' knowledge and attitudes toward newborn health interventions, before and a…

  • Reduction in child mortality in Ethiopia

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Sarah Rohde et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2016

    BACKGROUND: To examine changes in under-5 mortality, coverage of child survival interventions and nutritional status of children in Ethiopia between 2000 and 2011. Using the Lives Saved Tool, the impact of changes in coverage of child survival interventions on under-5 lives saved was estimated. METHODS: Estimates of child mortality were generated using three Ethiopia Demographic and Health Surveys undertaken between 2000 and 2011. Coverage indica…

  • Tanzania's Countdown to 2015

    Open AccessHoviyeh Afnan‐Holmes, Hoviyeh Afnan-Holmes et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2015

    BACKGROUND: Tanzania is on track to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 for child survival, but is making insufficient progress for newborn survival and maternal health (MDG 5) and family planning. To understand this mixed progress and to identify priorities for the post-2015 era, Tanzania was selected as a Countdown to 2015 case study. METHODS: We analysed progress made in Tanzania between 1990 and 2014 in maternal, newborn, and child morta…

  • Assessment of Malawi’s success in child mortality reduction through the lens of the Catalytic Initiative Integrated Health Systems Strengthening programme

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Wanga Zembe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2015

    BACKGROUND: Malawi is estimated to have achieved its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 target. This paper explores factors influencing progress in child survival in Malawi including coverage of interventions and the role of key national policies. METHODS: We performed a retrospective evaluation of the Catalytic Initiative (CI) programme of support (2007-2013). We developed estimates of child mortality using four population household surveys und…

  • Improving newborn care practices through home visits

    Open AccessDeborah Sitrin, Tanya Guenther et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: Nearly all newborn deaths occur in low- or middle-income countries. Many of these deaths could be prevented through promotion and provision of newborn care practices such as thermal care, early and exclusive breastfeeding, and hygienic cord care. Home visit programmes promoting these practices were piloted in Malawi, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Uganda. OBJECTIVE: This study assessed changes in selected newborn care practices over time in p…

  • Differences in essential newborn care at birth between private and public health facilities in eastern Uganda

    Open AccessPeter Waiswa, Joseph Akuze et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: In Uganda and elsewhere, the private sector provides an increasing and significant proportion of maternal and child health services. However, little is known whether private care results in better quality services and improved outcomes compared to the public sector, especially regarding care at the time of birth. OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of care-seekers and assess newborn care practices and services received at publi…

  • Newborn Health in Uganda

    Open AccessKate Kerber, Stefan Peterson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    No abstract available. (Published: 31 March 2015) Citation : Glob Health Action 2015, 8 : 27363 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27363 SPECIAL ISSUE : This paper is part of the Special Issue: Newborn health in Uganda . More papers from this issue can be found at http://www.globalhealthaction.net

  • Weeping in silence

    Open AccessJuliet Kiguli, Sarah Namusoko et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: Stillbirths do not register amongst national or global public health priorities, despite large numbers and known solutions. Although not accounted in statistics - these deaths count for families. Part of this disconnect is that very little is known about the lived experiences and perceptions of those experiencing this neglected problem. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore local definitions and perceived causes of stillbirths as wel…

  • Effect of the Uganda Newborn Study on care-seeking and care practices

    Open AccessPeter Waiswa, George Pariyo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: Care for women and babies before, during, and after the time of birth is a sensitive measure of the functionality of any health system. Engaging communities in preventing newborn deaths is a promising strategy to achieve further progress in child survival in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of a home visit strategy combined with health facility strengthening on uptake of newborn care-seeking, practices and services,…

  • ‘As soon as the umbilical cord gets off, the child ceases to be called a newborn’

    Open AccessChristine Kayemba Nalwadda, Peter Waiswa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: The first week of life is the time of greatest risk of death and disability, and is also associated with many traditional beliefs and practices. Identifying sick newborns in the community and referring them to health facilities is a key strategy to reduce deaths. Although a growing area of interest, there remains a lack of data on the role of sociocultural norms and practices on newborn healthcare-seeking in sub-Saharan Africa and the…

  • Designing for action

    Open AccessPeter Waiswa, Gertrude Namazzi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: There is a lack of literature on how to adapt new evidence-based interventions for maternal and newborn care into local health systems and policy for rapid scale-up, particularly for community-based interventions in low-income settings. The Uganda Newborn Study (UNEST) was a cluster randomised control trial to test a community-based care package which was rapidly taken up at national level. Understanding this process may help inform o…

  • Cost and impact of scaling up interventions to save lives of mothers and children

    Open AccessLumbwe Chola, Yogan Pillay et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: South Africa has made substantial progress on child and maternal mortality, yet many avoidable deaths of mothers and children still occur. This analysis identifies priority interventions to be scaled up nationally and projects the potential maternal and child lives saved. DESIGN: We modelled the impact of maternal, newborn and child interventions using the Lives Saved Tools Projections to 2015 and used realistic coverage increases bas…

  • Uganda Newborn Study (Unest)

    Open AccessJoy Elizabeth Lawn, Kate Kerber et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    No abstract available. (Published: 31 March 2015) Citation : Glob Health Action 2015, 8 : 27363 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27363 SPECIAL ISSUE : This paper is part of the Special Issue: Newborn health in Uganda . More papers from this issue can be found at http://www.globalhealthaction.net

  • Maternal and Infant Deaths

    Warren Graham, Wendy Graham et al.BOOKMaternal and Infant Deaths2014

  • Neonatal survival in complex humanitarian emergencies

    Open AccessDiane Morof, Kate Kerber et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2014

    In this study, a diverse group of experts used the CHRNI methodology to systematically identify and determine research priorities for neonatal health and survival in complex humanitarian emergencies. The priorities included the need to better understand the magnitude of the disease burden and interventions to improve neonatal health in complex humanitarian emergencies. The findings from this study will provide guidance to researchers and program …

  • How changes in coverage affect equity in maternal and child health interventions in 35 Countdown to 2015 countries

    Open AccessCesar G Victora, Aluísio J D Barros et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2012

  • Neonatal survival interventions in humanitarian emergencies

    Open AccessJennifer O Lam, Ribka Amsalu et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2012

    Neonatal care is provided by most of the responding humanitarian organizations; however, the quality, breadth and consistency of this care are limited

  • Newborn survival

    Open AccessJoy Elizabeth Lawn, Mary Kinney et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012Citada por: 13Referências: 56

    Neonatal deaths account for 40% of global under-five mortality and are ever more important if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival. We applied a results framework to evaluate global and national changes for neonatal mortality rates (NMR), healthy behaviours, intervention coverage, health system change, and inputs including funding, while considering contextual changes. The average annual rate of reduction …