Allan G Hill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 740757 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Allan G Hill |
| PRENOMES | Allan G |
| SOBRENOME | Hill |
| ASSINATURA | HILL A G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4418-0379 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 219 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1902 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
On the use of household expenditure surveys to monitor mismanaged plastic waste from food packaging in low- and middle-income countries
Background: substantial increases in plastic production have resulted in plastics proliferating of in the environment, with subsequent seabed plastic deposition and ingestion by marine fauna. There is an urgent need to monitor mismanaged plastic waste from household consumption. Household expenditure survey analysis has quantified mismanaged plastic waste generated from household packaged (bottled or bagged) water consumption, but not from consum…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
The influence of distance and quality on utilisation of birthing services at health facilities in Eastern Region, Ghana
OBJECTIVES: Skilled birth attendance is the single most important intervention to reduce maternal mortality. However, studies have not used routinely collected health service birth data at named health facilities to understand the influence of distance and quality of care on childbirth service utilisation. Thus, this paper aims to quantify the influence of distance and quality of healthcare on utilisation of birthing services using routine health…
Women living with multi-morbidity in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana
Defined as the co-occurrence of more than two chronic conditions, multi-morbidity has been described as a significant health care problem: a trend linked to a rise in non-communicable disease and an ageing population. Evidence on the experiences of living with multi-morbidity in middle-income countries (MICs) is limited. In high-income countries (HICs), multi-morbidity has a complex impact on health outcomes, including functional status, disabili…
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
Estimation of packaged water consumption and associated plastic waste production from household budget surveys
Packaged water consumption is growing in low- and middle-income countries, but the magnitude of this phenomenon and its environmental consequences remain unclear. This study aims to quantify both the volumes of packaged water consumed relative to household water requirements and associated plastic waste generated for three West African case study countries. Data from household expenditure surveys for Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia were used to estima…
Effects of Sachet Water Consumption on Exposure to Microbe-Contaminated Drinking Water
There remain few nationally representative studies of drinking water quality at the point of consumption in developing countries. This study aimed to examine factors associated with E. coli contamination in Ghana. It drew on a nationally representative household survey, the 2012-2013 Living Standards Survey 6, which incorporated a novel water quality module. E. coli contamination in 3096 point-of-consumption samples was examined using multinomial…
Jay Weinstein and Vijayan K. Pillai
Multimorbidity and the inequalities of global ageing
Multimorbidity is a global phenomenon, not just affecting older adults in HICs. Policy makers worldwide need to address these health inequalities, and support the complex service needs of a growing multimorbid population
Childbearing and Economic Work
The results suggest there are no health penalties of combining work and childbearing among women with young children in Accra, Ghana
Econometric analysis to evaluate the effect of community-based health insurance on reducing informal self-care in Burkina Faso
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the role of community-based health insurance (CBHI) in influencing health-seeking behaviour in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Community-based health insurance was introduced in Nouna district, Burkina Faso, in 2004 with the goal to improve access to contracted providers based at primary- and secondary-level facilities. The paper specifically examines the effect of CBHI enrolment on reducing the prevalence of seeking mod…
Connecting the Dots Between Health, Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana
West Africa has a rapidly growing population, an increasing fraction of which lives in urban informal settlements characterized by inadequate infrastructure and relatively high health risks. Little is known, however, about the spatial or health characteristics of cities in this region or about the spatial inequalities in health within them. In this article we show how we have been creating a data-rich field laboratory in Accra, Ghana, to connect …
Anaemia among Egyptian Children between 2000 and 2005
Anaemia remains the most prevalent nutritional disorder among women and children in the Middle East and North Africa region. We examined anaemia trends using data from the Egyptian Demographic and Health Surveys. Between 2000 and 2005, the prevalence of anaemia (defined as haemoglobin concentrations <11 g dL(-1) ) increased from 37.04% to over 52% among Egyptian children between 12 months and 36 months of age. We examined the associations of thes…
Maternal obesity trends in Egypt 1995–2005
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 46% of adult females in Egypt are obese. This research was aimed at documenting obesity trends and identifying the populations most at risk for obesity. Using data from the 1995 and 2005 Egyptian Demographic and Health Surveys a linear model was employed to seek associations between household wealth, urban/rural residence, governorate of residence, employment status, parity and age and increases i…
When urban taps run dry
Is access to neighborhood green space associated with BMI among Egyptians? A multilevel study of Cairo neighborhoods
The Health of the “Older Women” in Accra, Ghana
Are neighborhood education levels associated with BMI among adults in Cairo, Egypt
Neighborhoods and Fertility in Accra, Ghana
Fertility levels remain high in most of sub-Saharan Africa, despite recent declines, and even in a large capital city such as Accra, Ghana, women are having children at a pace that is well above replacement level and this will contribute to significant levels of future population growth in the city. Our purpose in this paper is to evaluate the way in which neighborhood context may shape reproductive behavior in Accra. In the process, we introduce…
Violence During Pregnancy in Jordan
This study estimates the lifetime prevalence of physical violence during pregnancy and examines risk and protective factors among women (N = 390) attending reproductive health clinics in Jordan. Approximately 15% reported physical violence during pregnancy. The husband was the sole perpetrator in 83% of the cases. A high frequency of quarreling, the husband's use of alcohol, attitudes supportive of a woman's duty to obey her husband, infrequent c…
Clinic‐based Surveillance of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes to Identify Induced Abortions in Accra, Ghana
Reliable measures of induced abortion remain elusive, especially when the public perception is that the procedure is immoral or improper. This study draws on interviews using a modified preceding birth technique (PBT) with women attending antenatal and maternity clinics in Accra to compare rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes (stillbirths, miscarriages, and induced abortions) with rates from a household maternity history and the Ghana Demographic …
Can we spot a neighborhood from the air? Defining neighborhood structure in Accra, Ghana
Ethnic Residential Patterns as Predictors of Intra-Urban Child Mortality Inequality in Accra, Ghana
As cities of developing nations absorb an increasing fraction of the world's population increase, questions have arisen about the potential for emerging inequalities in health within places that are already suffering from inadequate infrastructure. In this paper we explore the pattern of child mortality inequalities (as a proxy for overall health levels) within a large sub-Saharan African city-Accra, Ghana-and then we examine the extent to which …
Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception
Caroline Bledsoe, Fatoumatta Banja, Allan G. Hill, Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception: An African Challenge to Fertility Theory, Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 15-57
Constructing Natural Fertility
In 1992 in 41 villages in the North Bank region of rural Gambia researchers interviewed 2979 15-54 year old women to examine the means by which this population maintains natural fertility birth intervals. Only 3.3% had ever had formal schooling. The total fertility rate was 7.5. Criteria the women used in their decision making process about contraception included effectiveness confidentiality speed with which fecundity returns after the practice …
Can we spot a neighborhood from the air? Defining neighborhood structure in Accra, Ghana
Différences géographiques et sociales dans la mortalité infantile et juvénile au Mali
Hill Allan, Randall Sara. Différences géographiques et sociales dans la mortalité infantile et juvénile au Mali. In: Population, 39e année, n°6, 1984. pp. 921-946
When urban taps run dry
Neighborhoods and Fertility in Accra, Ghana
Fertility levels remain high in most of sub-Saharan Africa, despite recent declines, and even in a large capital city such as Accra, Ghana, women are having children at a pace that is well above replacement level and this will contribute to significant levels of future population growth in the city. Our purpose in this paper is to evaluate the way in which neighborhood context may shape reproductive behavior in Accra. In the process, we introduce…
Monitoring changes in child mortality
Health programme managers everywhere are concerned with the impact of their interventions on mortality. Where mortality is high, however, reliable statistics on the number and characteristics of those dying are scarce. Demographers have developed a set of so-called ‘indirect techniques’ for the adjustment of faulty registration data and for the conversion of the results of special questions in censuses and surveys into conventional life table mea…
The Fertility Transition in Egypt
Fertility transitions are historically thought to have started in cities and then spread to the rest of the country. This would suggest that in Egypt wewould find that Cairo was well ahead of the rest of the nation in its fertility transition. The data suggest otherwise and highlight the fact that many parts of Cairo are still experiencing high levels of fertility. Population geographers have generally examined differences only between urban and …
Spatial Variability in Fertility in Menoufia, Egypt, Assessed through the Application of Remote-Sensing and GIS Technologies
Fertility in rural areas such as the Governorate of Menoufia in Egypt may be influenced both by spatial factors (including the diffusion of innovations) and by essentially nonspatial factors (such as the availability of education for women and the percentage of adult women who are currently married). The nonspatial variables are available directly from censuses but the spatial component requires an accurate location of the villages to which the c…
Connecting the Dots Between Health, Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana
West Africa has a rapidly growing population, an increasing fraction of which lives in urban informal settlements characterized by inadequate infrastructure and relatively high health risks. Little is known, however, about the spatial or health characteristics of cities in this region or about the spatial inequalities in health within them. In this article we show how we have been creating a data-rich field laboratory in Accra, Ghana, to connect …
Violence During Pregnancy in Jordan
This study estimates the lifetime prevalence of physical violence during pregnancy and examines risk and protective factors among women (N = 390) attending reproductive health clinics in Jordan. Approximately 15% reported physical violence during pregnancy. The husband was the sole perpetrator in 83% of the cases. A high frequency of quarreling, the husband's use of alcohol, attitudes supportive of a woman's duty to obey her husband, infrequent c…
Childhood Mortality Estimates Using the Preceding Birth Technique
The Preceding Birth Technique has proved to be a simple and effective way of estimating mortality during the first two years of life when the question on the survival of the preceding child is asked at the time of a subsequent delivery. This article shows first that earlier worries about significant biases in the estimates are unfounded. Amongst the possible sources of bias considered are: the link between birth-interval length and child survival…
The Palestinian Population of the Middle East
An attempt is made to examine the demographic characteristics of the Palestinian population both within the present borders of Israel and in the rest of the Middle East and to describe some recent demographic trends. Mortality and particularly infant mortality among all Palestinian populations is below the Third World average and often below that for other populations of the Arab world. The pace of mortality decline was fastest among the Arab pop…
The Health of the “Older Women” in Accra, Ghana
Clinic‐based Surveillance of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes to Identify Induced Abortions in Accra, Ghana
Reliable measures of induced abortion remain elusive, especially when the public perception is that the procedure is immoral or improper. This study draws on interviews using a modified preceding birth technique (PBT) with women attending antenatal and maternity clinics in Accra to compare rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes (stillbirths, miscarriages, and induced abortions) with rates from a household maternity history and the Ghana Demographic …
Ethnic Residential Patterns as Predictors of Intra-Urban Child Mortality Inequality in Accra, Ghana
As cities of developing nations absorb an increasing fraction of the world's population increase, questions have arisen about the potential for emerging inequalities in health within places that are already suffering from inadequate infrastructure. In this paper we explore the pattern of child mortality inequalities (as a proxy for overall health levels) within a large sub-Saharan African city-Accra, Ghana-and then we examine the extent to which …
The demography of the Kuwaiti population of Kuwait
Kuwait has experienced a dramatic rise in national income since 1945, and its material standard of living is as high as that of any country in the world. The national population (Kuwaitis) is a stable and almost closed population comprising 45 percent of the total population of the state. The Kuwaitis, readily separable from the immigrant population, both de facto and de jure, have a very low level of mortality but retain their traditionally high…
Is access to neighborhood green space associated with BMI among Egyptians? A multilevel study of Cairo neighborhoods
Reporting of fertility events by men and women in rural Gambia
We conducted a survey of male and female fertility in rural villages in The Gambia and compared men and women’s reports of recent pregnancy events in the aggregate and of children ever born for matched couples. Despite widespread polygyny and sex differences in fertility, men’s and women’s reports were similar. Small sex differences in reports of recent stillbirths and neonatal deaths were found. For matched couples, husbands reported 0.23 more c…
Assessing the impact of health programmes using household surveys in Mali
Health planners are turning more frequently to the data collected in large-scale household demographic and health surveys for information on health needs, and for assessment of the impact of health interventions. Measuring the effects of the use of health services on the mortality of young children is a complex scientific problem because of the wide range of potential confounding variables. Using data from a household demographic and health surve…
Demographic Responses to Food Shortages in the Sahel
To MALTHUS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, it seemed self-evident that crop failures and food shortages would inevitably produce starvation, sickness, and excess mortality among the poor in the stricken populations. Certainly, the African historical record is full of periods of crisis mortality, many of them linked to famine and some of them occurring well into the twentieth century (see Watts, 1983 for a chronology from northern Nigeria, and Carreira, 1…
Are neighborhood education levels associated with BMI among adults in Cairo, Egypt
Reporting of Fertility Events by Men and Women in Rural Gambia
We conducted a survey of male and female fertility in rural villages in The Gambia and compared men and women's reports of recent pregnancy events in the aggregate and of children ever born for matched couples. Despite widespread polygyny and sex differences in fertility, men's and women's reports were similar. Small sex differences in reports of recent stillbirths and neonatal deaths were found. For matched couples, husbands reported 0.23 more c…
Estimating childhood mortality trends from routine data
The Preceding Birth Technique (PBT) has been proposed as a method suitable for ascertaining the prevailing level of under-2 mortality in countries without full vital registration. It is a monitoring tool rather than a method that will replace other established approaches to measuring childhood mortality levels and differentials that other demographers have developed over the last 30 years. The principle obstacle to the wider adoption of the PBT i…
Infant and Child Mortality in Rural Mali
Some new data on child mortality among 3 distinct ethnic groups resident in 2 distinct zones of rural Mali are presented. The data were gathered during a program of single round demographic surveys and both direct and indirect estimates of child mortality are presented. The bulk of the analysis is based on life table analysis of the maternity data. The data span a range of groups with contrasting ways of life. They include: sedentary Bambara mill…
A Study of the Diet of the Labouring Classes in Edinburgh, carried out under the auspices of the Town Council
Kuwait
The demography of the Kuwaiti population of Kuwait
Kuwait has experienced a dramatic rise in national income since 1945, and its material standard of living is as high as that of any country in the world. The national population (Kuwaitis) is a stable and almost closed population comprising 45 percent of the total population of the state. The Kuwaitis, readily separable from the immigrant population, both de facto and de jure, have a very low level of mortality but retain their traditionally high…
Fertility, mortality, migration and family planning in the Yemen Arab Republic
Until the end of the seven years' civil war following the revolution of 1962, almost no reliable statistical information of any kind about the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and its people was available. Since President al-Hamdi's takeover of 1974, the demand for more accurate statistics for developing planning has led to a number of studies which give us the first numerical insights into the dynamics of the Yemen's population. The National Po…
The Population of Israel
Population in the Arab World
The Palestinian Population of the Middle East
An attempt is made to examine the demographic characteristics of the Palestinian population both within the present borders of Israel and in the rest of the Middle East and to describe some recent demographic trends. Mortality and particularly infant mortality among all Palestinian populations is below the Third World average and often below that for other populations of the Arab world. The pace of mortality decline was fastest among the Arab pop…
Mobilizing Human Resources in the Arab World
Infant and Child Mortality in Rural Mali
Some new data on child mortality among 3 distinct ethnic groups resident in 2 distinct zones of rural Mali are presented. The data were gathered during a program of single round demographic surveys and both direct and indirect estimates of child mortality are presented. The bulk of the analysis is based on life table analysis of the maternity data. The data span a range of groups with contrasting ways of life. They include: sedentary Bambara mill…
Différences géographiques et sociales dans la mortalité infantile et juvénile au Mali
Hill Allan, Randall Sara. Différences géographiques et sociales dans la mortalité infantile et juvénile au Mali. In: Population, 39e année, n°6, 1984. pp. 921-946
Mortality Levels and Trends in Jordan Estimated from the Results of the 1976 Fertility Survey
This report discusses the possibility of estimating levels and trends in fertility and childhood and adult mortality from responses to simple retrospective questions included in a single census or survey. The Jordan household survey contains a large sample size of over 14000 households. For the analysis the data used were those on the standard recode file produced by the Jordan Department of Statistics and distributed by the World Fertility Surve…
Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel
1. Issues in the study of the Demography of Sahelian Pastoralists and Agro-pastoralists 2. The Recent Demographic Surveys in Mali and their main Findings 3. The Enumeration of Nomads and Semi-Nomads: Methodology and Selected Results from the 1976 Census of Mali 4. A Demographic Profile of the Fulani and Central Mali with Special Emphasis on Infant and Child Mortality 5. Demographic Characteristics and Trends Amongst the Nomads of Mauritania 6. Mi…
Muslims and Minorities
Child Survival. Strategies for Research
Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel
Monitoring changes in child mortality
Health programme managers everywhere are concerned with the impact of their interventions on mortality. Where mortality is high, however, reliable statistics on the number and characteristics of those dying are scarce. Demographers have developed a set of so-called ‘indirect techniques’ for the adjustment of faulty registration data and for the conversion of the results of special questions in censuses and surveys into conventional life table mea…
Demographic Responses to Food Shortages in the Sahel
To MALTHUS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, it seemed self-evident that crop failures and food shortages would inevitably produce starvation, sickness, and excess mortality among the poor in the stricken populations. Certainly, the African historical record is full of periods of crisis mortality, many of them linked to famine and some of them occurring well into the twentieth century (see Watts, 1983 for a chronology from northern Nigeria, and Carreira, 1…
Perspectives on Development and Population Growth in the Third World
The 'Own-Children' Method of Fertility Estimation
Childhood Mortality Estimates Using the Preceding Birth Technique
The Preceding Birth Technique has proved to be a simple and effective way of estimating mortality during the first two years of life when the question on the survival of the preceding child is asked at the time of a subsequent delivery. This article shows first that earlier worries about significant biases in the estimates are unfounded. Amongst the possible sources of bias considered are: the link between birth-interval length and child survival…
Assessing the impact of health programmes using household surveys in Mali
Health planners are turning more frequently to the data collected in large-scale household demographic and health surveys for information on health needs, and for assessment of the impact of health interventions. Measuring the effects of the use of health services on the mortality of young children is a complex scientific problem because of the wide range of potential confounding variables. Using data from a household demographic and health surve…
The Analysis of Maternity Histories
Constructing Natural Fertility
In 1992 in 41 villages in the North Bank region of rural Gambia researchers interviewed 2979 15-54 year old women to examine the means by which this population maintains natural fertility birth intervals. Only 3.3% had ever had formal schooling. The total fertility rate was 7.5. Criteria the women used in their decision making process about contraception included effectiveness confidentiality speed with which fecundity returns after the practice …
Cattle, Women, and Wells
Estimating childhood mortality trends from routine data
The Preceding Birth Technique (PBT) has been proposed as a method suitable for ascertaining the prevailing level of under-2 mortality in countries without full vital registration. It is a monitoring tool rather than a method that will replace other established approaches to measuring childhood mortality levels and differentials that other demographers have developed over the last 30 years. The principle obstacle to the wider adoption of the PBT i…
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