Browsing by Author "Cohen, Jessica"
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Can a community health worker administered postnatal checklist increase health-seeking behaviors and knowledge?: evidence from a randomized trial with a private maternity facility in Kiambu County, Kenya
McConnell, Margaret Anne; Ettenger, Allison; Rothschild, Claire Watt; Muigai, Faith; Cohen, Jessica L (Springer Nature, 2016)Background: Since the 2009 WHO and UNICEF recommendation that women receive home-based postnatal care within the first three days after birth, a growing number of low-income countries have explored integrating postnatal ... -
Determinants of malaria diagnostic uptake in the retail sector: qualitative analysis from focus groups in Uganda
Cohen, Jessica; Cox, Alex; Dickens, William; Maloney, Kathleen; Lam, Felix; Fink, Günther (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: In Uganda, as in most other malaria-endemic countries, presumptive treatment for malaria based on symptoms without a diagnostic blood test is still very common. While diagnostic testing in public sector facilities ... -
Diffusion of subsidized ACTs in accredited drug shops in Tanzania: determinants of stocking and characteristics of early and late adopters
Larson, Peter S; Yadav, Prashant; Alphs, Sarah; Arkedis, Jean; Massaga, Julius; Sabot, Oliver; Cohen, Jessica L (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Many households in sub-Saharan Africa utilize the private sector as a primary source of treatment for malaria episodes. Expanding access to effective treatment in private drug shops may help reduce incidence ... -
Disparities between malaria infection and treatment rates: Evidence from a cross-sectional analysis of households in Uganda
Saran, Indrani; Cohen, Jessica L (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017)In Sub-Saharan Africa, both under-treatment and over-treatment of malaria are common since illnesses are often diagnosed and treated on the basis of symptoms. We investigate whether malaria treatment rates among febrile ... -
Do patients adhere to over-the-counter artemisinin combination therapy for malaria? Evidence from an intervention study in Uganda
Cohen, Jessica L.; Yavuz, Elif Nazmiye; Morris, Alexandra; Arkedis, Jean; Sabot, Oliver (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Increasing affordability of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) in the African retail sector could be critical to expanding access to effective malaria treatment, but must be balanced by efforts to protect ... -
Do Price Subsidies on Artemisinin Combination Therapy for Malaria Increase Household Use?: Evidence from a Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in Remote Regions of Tanzania
Cohen, Jessica L.; Yadav, Prashant; Moucheraud, Corrina; Alphs, Sarah; Larson, Peter S.; Arkedis, Jean; Massaga, Julius; Sabot, Oliver (Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) is a pilot program that uses price subsidies to increase access to Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs), currently the most effective malaria treatment. ... -
Introducing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria to drug shops in Uganda: a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Cohen, Jessica; Fink, Günther; Maloney, Kathleen; Berg, Katrina; Jordan, Matthew; Svoronos, Theodore; Aber, Flavia; Dickens, William (World Health Organization, 2015)Abstract Objective: To evaluate the impact – on diagnosis and treatment of malaria – of introducing rapid diagnostic tests to drug shops in eastern Uganda. Methods: Overall, 2193 households in 79 study villages with at ... -
List randomization for eliciting HIV status and sexual behaviors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a randomized experiment using known true values for validation
Haber, Noah; Harling, Guy Duncan; Cohen, Jessica L; Mutevedzi, Tinofa; Tanser, Frank; Gareta, Dickman; Herbst, Kobus; Pillay, Deenan; Bärnighausen, Till; Fink, Günther (Springer Nature, 2018)Background List randomization (LR), a survey method intended to mitigate biases related to sensitive true/false questions, has received recent attention from researchers. However, tests of its validity are limited, with ... -
“Once the delivery is done, they have finished”: a qualitative study of perspectives on postnatal care referrals by traditional birth attendants in Ebonyi state, Nigeria
Chukwuma, Adanna Deborah Ugochi; Mbachu, Chinyere; Cohen, Jessica L; Bossert, Thomas John; McConnell, Margaret Anne (Springer Nature, 2017)Background While 79% of Nigerian mothers who deliver in facilities receive postnatal care within 48 h of delivery, this is only true for 16% of mothers who deliver outside facilities. Most maternal deaths can be prevented ... -
Prenatal exposure to sand and dust storms and children's cognitive function in China: a quasi-experimental study
Li, Zhihui; Chen, Lincoln; Li, Mingqiang; Cohen, Jessica L (Elsevier BV, 2018)BACKGROUND: While there is evidence that sand and dust storms can have adverse health effects, the effects of such storms on children's cognitive function has not been explored. We examined whether prenatal exposure to ... -
Sustainable Development in Surgery: The Health, Poverty, and Equity Impacts of Charitable Surgery in Uganda
Shrime, Mark George; Sekidde, Serufusa; Linden, Allison; Cohen, Jessica L; Weinstein, Milton Charles; Salomon, Joshua A. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016)Background. The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals call for the end of poverty and the equitable provision of healthcare. These goals are often at odds, however: health seeking can lead to catastrophic spending, ... -
Trends in Availability and Prices of Subsidized ACT over the First Year of the AMFm: Evidence from Remote Regions of Tanzania
Yadav, Prashant; Cohen, Jessica L; Alphs, Sarah; Arkedis, Jean; Larson, Peter S; Massaga, Julius; Sabot, Oliver (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: The Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm) is a pilot supra-national subsidy program that aims to increase access and affordability of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) in public sector clinics ...