Barbara McPake

Transforming UNICEF's approach to health system strengthening: what place can a blended learning course play?

Lucio Naccarella, Barbara McPake, Prarthna Dayal, Waithira Gikonyo, Claudia Vivas Torrealba, Alison Morgan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Human Resources for Health

BACKGROUND: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) published their Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) approach to meet its st..

Impact of non-communicable disease multimorbidity on health service use, catastrophic health expenditure and productivity loss in Indonesia: a population-based panel data analysis study.

Tiara Marthias, Kanya Anindya, Nawi Ng, Barbara McPake, Rifat Atun, Hafiz Arfyanto, Emily Sg Hulse, Yang Zhao, Hafizah Jusril, Tianxin Pan, Marie Ishida, John Tayu Lee

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ Open

OBJECTIVES: To examine non-communicable diseases (NCDs) multimorbidity level and its relation to households' socioeconomic charact..

Imagining maternity care as a complex adaptive system: understanding health system constraints to the promotion of respectful maternity care.

Anteneh Asefa, Barbara McPake, Ana Langer, Meghan A Bohren, Alison Morgan

Journal article  |  2020  |  Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

Evidence of the health system challenges to promoting respectful maternity care (RMC) is limited in Ethiopia and globally. This st..

The Joint Effect of Physical Multimorbidity and Mental Health Conditions Among Adults in Australia

Marie Ishida, Emily SG Hulse, Robert K Mahar, Jane Gunn, Rifat Atun, Barbara McPake, Naveen Tenneti, Kanya Anindya, Gregory Armstrong, Patrick Mulcahy, Will Carman, John Tayu Lee

Journal article  |  2020  |  Preventing Chronic Disease

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of chronic physical and mental health conditions is rising globally. Little evidence exists on the jo..

Prevalence of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in Papua New Guinea: A systematic review

Patricia Rarau, Shuaijun Guo, Shaira Nicole Baptista, Justin Pulford, Barbara McPake, Brian Oldenburg

Journal article  |  2020  |  SAGE Open Medicine

Introduction: The mortality associated with non-communicable diseases has increased significantly in most countries in the World H..

The distinctive roles of urban community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature

Teralynn Ludwick, Alison Morgan, Sumit Kane, Margaret Kelaher, Barbara McPake

Journal article  |  2020  |  Health Policy and Planning

Addressing urban health challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been hampered by lack of evidence on effective ..

The long-run effects of noncommunicable disease shocks

Tianxin Pan, Michael Palmer, Ajay Mahal, Peter Annear, Barbara McPake

Journal article  |  2020  |  Health Economics

The health shocks literature typically does not take into account the temporal patterns of loss since the time of the shock. This ..

Progress towards reducing sociodemographic disparities in breastfeeding outcomes in Indonesia: a trend analysis from 2002 to 2017

Nurmala Selly Saputri, Belinda Rina Marie Spagnoletti, Alison Morgan, Siswanto Agus Wilopo, Ankur Singh, Barbara McPake, Rifat Atun, Rika Kumala Dewi, John Tayu Lee

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Improving breastfeeding practice is important for reducing child health inequalities and achieving several Sustainable..

Impact of Indonesia's national health insurance scheme on inequality in access to maternal health services: A propensity score matched analysis

Kanya Anindya, John Tayu Lee, Barbara McPake, Siswanto Agus Wilopo, Christopher Millett, Natalie Carvalho

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Global Health

Background: Reducing inequality in maternal, neonatal and infant mortality are key targets in the Sustainable Development Goals. T..

Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data

Yang Zhao, Rifat Atun, Brian Oldenburg, Barbara McPake, Shenglan Tang, Stewart W Mercer, Thomas E Cowling, Grace Sum, Vicky Mengqi Qin, John Tayu Lee

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet Global Health

BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity, the presence of two or more mental or physical chronic non-communicable diseases, is a major challenge..