Browsing Research Publications by Author "Kinney, Mary V."
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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 ... -
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal: a prospective observational study
Kinney, Mary V.; Kc, Ashish; Gurung, Rejina (Elsevier, 2020)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic response is affecting maternal and neonatal health services all over the world. We aimed to assess the number of institutional births, their outcomes (institutional stillbirth and neonatal ... -
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 ... -
Galvanizing collective action to accelerate reductions in maternal and newborn mortality and prevention of stillbirths
Gibson, Anita; Noguchi, Lisa; Kinney, Mary V. (Johns Hopkins University, 2021)Every day, there are an estimated 810 maternal and 7,000 newborn deaths, and more than 5,000 stillbirths, most of which are preventable.1-3 While progress has been made in reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity and ... -
“It might be a statistic to me, but every death matters.”: An assessment of facility-level maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response systems in four sub-Saharan African countries
Kinney, Mary V.; Ajayi, Gbaike; de Graft-Johnson, Joseph E. (Public Library of Science, 2020)Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) systems aim to understand and address key contributors to maternal and perinatal deaths to prevent future deaths. From 2016–2017, the US Agency for International ... -
Multiple pathways to scaling up and sustainability: An exploration of digital health solutions in South Africa
Swartz, Alison; LeFevre, Amnesty E.; Kinney, Mary V. (BMC, 2021)With the aim to support further understanding of scaling up and sustaining digital health, we explore digital health solutions that have or are anticipated to reach national scale in South Africa: the Perinatal ...