Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Author "George, Asha S."
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Accountability for SRHR in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
George, Asha S.; Schaaf, Marta; Boydell, Victoria (Taylor & Francis, 2020)Governments and international organisations are focused on COVID-19 crisis decision-making. As a result, global and national health governance contexts are changing dramatically, as are the social and political determinants ... -
Advancing the science behind human resources for health: highlights from the Health Policy and Systems Research Reader on Human Resources for Health
George, Asha S.; Campbell, J.; Ghaffar, A.; HPSR HRH reader collaborators (BMC, 2018)Health workers are central to people-centred health systems, resilient economies and sustainable development. Given the rising importance of the health workforce, changing human resource for health (HRH) policy and ... -
Are rhetorical commitments to adolescents refected in planning documents? An exploratory content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Global Financing Facility country plans
George, Asha S.; Jacobs, Tanya; Kinney, Mary V. (BMC, 2021)The Global Financing Facility (GFF) offers an opportunity to close the financing gap that holds back gains in women, children's and adolescent health. However, very little work exists examining GFF practice, particularly ... -
“Because even the person living with HIV/AIDS might need to make babies” – Perspectives on the drivers of feasibility and acceptability of an integrated community health worker model in Iringa, Tanzania
Shelley, Katharine D.; Frumence, Gasto; Mpembeni, Rose; Mwinnyaa, George; Joachim, Juliana; Kisusi, Hawa Kadria; Killewo, Japhet; Baqui, Abdullah H.; Peters, David H.; George, Asha S. (International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019)Background: Countries with health workforce shortages are increasingly turning to multipurpose community health workers (CHWs) to extend integrated services to the community-level. However, there may be tradeoffs with the ... -
Beyond form and functioning: Understanding how contextual factors influence village health committees in northern India
Scott, Kerry; George, Asha S.; Harvey, Steven A.; Mondal, Shinjini; Patel, Gupteswar; Ved, Rajani; Garimella, Surekha; Sheikh, Kabir (Public Library of Science, 2017)Health committees are a common strategy to foster community participation in health. Efforts to strengthen committees often focus on technical inputs to improve committee form (e.g. representative membership) and functioning ... -
Broadening understanding of accountability ecosystems in sexual and reproductive health and rights: A systematic review
Van Belle, Sara; Boydell, Vicky; George, Asha S.; Brinkerhof, Derrick W.; Khosla, Rajat (Public Library of Science, 2018)BACKGROUND Accountability for ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights is increasingly receiving global attention. Less attention has been paid to accountability mechanisms for sexual and reproductive health ... -
Can community action improve equity for maternal health and how does it do so? Research findings from Gujarat, India
George, Asha S.; Mohan, Diwakar; Gupta, Jaya; LeFevre, Amnesty E.; Balakrishnan, Subhasri; Ved, Rajani; Khanna, Renu (BMC, 2018)BACKGROUND: Efforts to work with civil society to strengthen community participation and action for health are particularly important in Gujarat, India, given that the state has resources and capacity, but faces challenges ... -
The crowded space of local accountability for maternal, newborn and child health: A case study of the South African health system
Mukinda, Fidele Kanyimbu; van Belle, Sara B.; George, Asha S. (Oxford University Press, 2020)Global and national accountability for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) is increasingly invoked as central to addressing preventable mortality and morbidity. Strategies of accountability for MNCH include policy ... -
Development and validation of a structured observation scale to measure responsiveness of physicians in rural Bangladesh
Joarder, Taufique; Mahmud, Ilias; Sarker, Malabika; George, Asha S.; Dipankar Rao, Krishna (BioMed Central, 2017)BACKGROUND: Responsiveness of physicians is the social actions that physicians do to meet the legitimate expectations of service seekers. Since there is no such scale, this study aimed at developing one for measuring ... -
Does women's mobile phone ownership matter for health? Evidence from 15 countries
George, Asha S.; LeFevre, Amnesty E.; Shah, Neha (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)Mobile phones have the potential to increase access to health information, improve patient-provider communication, and influence the content and quality of health services received. Evidence on the gender gap in ownership ... -
Doing implementation research on health governance: a frontline researcher’s reflexive account of field-level challenges and their management
Patel, Gupteswar; Garimella, Surekha; Scott, Kerry; Mondal, Shinjini; George, Asha S.; Sheikh, Kabir (BioMed Central, 2017)BACKGROUND: Implementation Research (IR) in and around health systems comes with unique challenges for researchers including implementation, multi-layer governance, and ethical issues. Partnerships between researchers, ... -
A forgotten group during humanitarian crises: a systematic review of sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people including adolescents in humanitarian settings
Jennings, Lauren; George, Asha S.; Jacobs, Tanya; Blanchet, Karl; Singh, Neha S. (Conflict and Health, 2019)Background: Young people including adolescents face barriers to healthcare and increased risk of poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH), which are exacerbated in humanitarian settings. Our systematic review assessed the ... -
A forgotten group during humanitarian crises: A systematic review of sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people including adolescents in humanitarian settings
Jennings, Lauren; George, Asha S.; Jacobs, Tanya; Blanchet, Karl; Singh, Neha S. (Conflict and Health, 2019)Background: Young people including adolescents face barriers to healthcare and increased risk of poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH), which are exacerbated in humanitarian settings. Our systematic review assessed the ... -
From pre-implementation to institutionalization: Lessons from sustaining a perinatal audit program in South Africa
Kinney, Mary V.; George, Asha S.; Rhoda, Natasha R. (NLM (Medline), 2023)Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR), or related forms of maternal and perinatal death audits, can strengthen health systems. We explore the history of initiating, scaling up, and institutionalizing ... -
Government helper and citizen advocate? A case study of the multiple roles and pressures facing a nongovernmental organization contracted by government to strengthen community health in northern India
Scott, Kerry; George, Asha S.; Harvey, Steven A.; Mondal, Shinjini; Patel, Gupteswar; V.R., Raman; Sheikh, Kabir (Wiley, 2017)While nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can potentially strengthen valuable citizen political engagement, NGOs that are increasingly oriented towards donor and government contracts may instead contribute to depoliticizing ... -
How are gender equality and human rights interventions included in sexual and reproductive health programmes and policies: a systematic review of existing research foci and gaps
Hartmann, Miriam; Khosla, Rajat; Krishnan, Suneeta; George, Asha S.; Gruskin, Sofia; Amin, Avni (Public Library of Science, 2016)The importance of promoting gender equality and human rights in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes and policies has been affirmed in numerous international and regional agreements, most recently the 2030 ... -
How are gender equality and human rights interventions included in sexual and reproductive health programmes and policies: A systematic review of existing research foci and gaps
Hartmann, Miriam; Khosla, Rajat; Krishnan, Suneeta; George, Asha S.; Gruskin, Sofia; Amin, Avni (Public Library of Science, 2016)The importance of promoting gender equality and human rights in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes and policies has been affirmed in numerous international and regional agreements, most recently the 2030 Agenda ... -
The importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengthening
Theobald, Sally; Morgan, Rosemary; Hawkins, Kate; Ssali, Sarah; George, Asha S.; Molyneux, Sassy (Oxford University Press, 2017)This editorial discusses a collection of papers examining gender across a range of health policy and systems contexts, from access to services, governance, health financing, and human resources for health. The papers ... -
Maternal and neonatal implementation for equitable systems. A study design paper
Ekirapa-Kiracho, Elizabeth; Tetui, Moses; George, Asha S. (Taylor & Francis Open, 2017)BACKGROUND: Evidence on effective ways of improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes is widely available. The challenge that most low-income countries grapple with is implementation at scale and sustainability. OBJECTIVES: ... -
Maternal and newborn health implementation research: programme outcomes, pathways of change and partnerships for equitable health systems in Uganda
George, Asha S.; Tetui, Moses; Pariyo, George W.; Peterson, Stefan S. (Taylor & Francis Open, 2018)Nestled in eastern and southern Africa, with a population of just over 39 million, Uganda reported a maternal mortality ratio of 360 per 100,000 live births, a neonatal mortality rate of 19 per 1000 live births and an ...