Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Author "George, Asha"
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African governments must build on Covid-19 responses to advance gender equality
Bello, Kéfilath; George, Asha; De Jong, Michelle (NLM (Medline), 2023)Gender inequality remains a major threat to development in Africa, with millions of women in the continent not reaching their full potential.1 The covid-19 pandemic and related quarantine and lockdown measures exacerbated ... -
Between rhetoric and reality: Learnings from youth participation in the adolescent and youth health policy in South Africa
Jacobs, Tanya; George, Asha (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)Youth participation makes an essential contribution to the design of policies and with the appropriate structures, and processes, meaningful engagement leads to healthier, more just, and equal societies. There is a ... -
Building a transformative agenda for accountability in SRHR: Lessons learned from SRHR and accountability literatures
Boydell, Victoria; Schaaf, Marta; George, Asha; Brinkerhoff, Derick W; Belle, Sara Van; Khosla, Rajat (Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019)Global strategies and commitments for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) underscore the need to strengthen rights-based accountability processes. Yet there are gaps between these ambitious SRHR rights frameworks ... -
Democratic South Africa at 25 – A conceptual framework and narrative review of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health
Jacobs, Tanya; George, Asha (Springer Nature, 2021)Twenty-five years into South Africa’s constitutional democracy provides an opportunity to take stock of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health. Those born in democratic South Africa, commonly known ... -
District governance and improved maternal, neonatal and child health in South Africa: Pathways of change
Schneider, Helen; George, Asha; Mukinda, Fidele; Tabana, Hanani (Health systems and reform, 2020)District-level initiatives to improve maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) generally do not take governance as their primary lens on health system strengthening. This paper is a case study of a district and sub-district ... -
Does having a mobile phone matter? Linking phone access among women to health in India: An exploratory analysis of the National Family Health Survey
George, Asha; Mohan, Diwakar; Bashingwa, Jean Juste Harrisson (Public Library of Science, 2020)The disruptive potential of mobile phones in catalyzing development is increasingly being recognized. However, numerous gaps remain in access to phones and their influence on health care utilization. In this cross-sectional ... -
Exploring the sustainability of perinatal audit in four district hospitals in the Western Cape, South Africa: a multiple case study approach
Kinney, Mary; Bergh, Anne-Marie; Rhoda, Natasha; Pattinson, Robert; George, Asha (BMJ, 2022)Introduction Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) is an intervention process that uses a continuous cycle of identification, notification and review of deaths to determine avoidable causes followed ... -
Health systems for all in the SDG era: Key reflections based on the Liverpool statement for the fifth global symposium on health systems research
George, Asha; Olivier, Jill; Glandon, Douglas; Kapilashrami, Anuj; Gilson, Lucy (Health Policy and Planning, 2019)The year 2018 marked anniversaries of several significant milestones in public health: the birth of the UK National Health Service, the Alma Ata declaration and the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. The Fifth ... -
How to use relevant data for maximal benefit with minimal risk: Digital health data governance to protect vulnerable populations in low-income and middle- income countries
Tiffin, Nicki; George, Asha; LeFevre, Amnesty Elizabeth (BMJ Global Health, 2019)Globally, the volume of private and personal digital data has massively increased, accompanied by rapid expansion in the generation and use of digital health data. These technological advances promise increased opportunity for ... -
Integrating community health assistant- driven sexual and reproductive health services in the community health system in Nyimba district in Zambia: Mapping key actors, points of integration, and conditions shaping the process
Zulu, Joseph M.; Kinsman, John; Hurtig, Anna-Karin; Michelo, Charles; George, Asha; Schneider, Helen (Reproductive Health, 2019)Introduction: Although large scale public sector community health worker programs have been key in providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in low- and middle-income countries, their integration process into ... -
Integrating community health assistant-driven sexual and reproductive health services in the community health system in Nyimba district in Zambia: Mapping key actors, points of integration, and conditions shaping the process
Zulu, Joseph M.; Kinsman, John; Hurtig, Anna-Karin; Michelo, Charles; George, Asha; Schneider, Helen (Reproductive Health, 2019)Introduction: Although large scale public sector community health worker programs have been key in providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in low- A nd middle-income countries, their integration process ... -
Lenses and levels: the why, what and how of measuring health system drivers of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health with a governance focus
George, Asha; LeFevre, Amnesty Elizabeth; Jacobs, Tanya; Kinney, Mary; Buse, Kent; Chopra, Mickey; Daelmans, Bernadette; Haakenstad, Annie; Huicho, Luis; Khosla, Rajat; Rasanathan, Kumanan; Sanders, David; Singh, Neha S; Tiffin, Nicki; Ved, Rajani; Zaidi, Shehla Abbas; Schneider, Helen (BMJ, 2019)Health systems are critical for health outcomes as they underpin intervention coverage and quality, promote users’ rights and intervene on the social determinants of health. Governance is essential for health system ... -
No pandemic preparedness and research without gender equality
Clark, Jocalyn; George, Asha; Khosla, Rajat (NLM (Medline), 2023)The covid-19 emergency may have been declared over, but its effects are not. Pre-existing inequities worsened during the pandemic, and the crisis has hardened societal fault lines. Sex and gender mark many of these. ... -
“Not just a journal club – it’s where the magic happens”: Knowledge mobilization through co-production for health system development in the Western Cape province, South Africa
Brady, Leanne; Gilson, Lucy L.; George, Asha (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)The field of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) views researchers as active participants in processes of knowledge mobilization, learning and action. Yet few studies examine how such processes are institutionalized ... -
Paramedics, poetry, and film: Health policy and systems research at the intersection of theory, art, and practice
Brady, Leanne; De Vries, Shaheem; Gallow, Rushaana; George, Asha; Gilson, Lucy; Louw, Moira; Martin, Abdul Waheem; Shamis, Khalid; Stuart, Toni (Human Resources for Health, 2019)Violence is a public health issue. It is the consequence of a complex set of interacting political, social, and economic factors firmly rooted in past and current injustice. South Africa remains one of the most unequal ... -
Paramedics, poetry, and film: Health policy and systems research at the intersection of theory, art, and practice
Brady, Leanne; De Vries, Shaheem; George, Asha (BMC, 2019)Violence is a public health issue. It is the consequence of a complex set of interacting political, social, and economic factors firmly rooted in past and current injustice. South Africa remains one of the most ... -
Perceptions of pregnant women of reasons for late initiation of antenatal care: A qualitative interview study
Warri, Denis; George, Asha (BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020)Background: Antenatal care serves as a key entry point for a pregnant woman to receive a broad range of services and should be initiated at the onset of pregnancy. The aim of the study was to understand the reasons for the ... -
Policy foundations for transformation: A gender analysis of adolescent health policy documents in South Africa
Jacobs, Tanya; George, Asha; De Jong, Michelle (Oxford University Press, 2021)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Global Strategy (2016-30) emphasize that all women, children and adolescents 'survive, thrive and transform'. A key element of this global policy framework ... -
Practice of death surveillance and response for maternal, newborn and child health: A framework and application to a South African health district
Mukinda, Fidele Kanyimbu; George, Asha; Van Belle, Sara (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)To assess the functioning of maternal, perinatal, neonatal and child death surveillance and response (DSR) mechanisms at a health district level.A framework of elements covering analysis of causes of death, and processes ... -
Praxis, power, and processes: youth participation in health policy – a response to recent commentaries
Jacobs, Tanya; George, Asha (International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM), 2024)We are appreciative of the opportunity to further engage in critical discussions and to advance the knowledge on youth participation in health policy processes, by providing a response to commentaries on our paper, “Between ...