Barbara McPake

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..

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 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..

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..

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..

Rural and urban differences in health system performance among older Chinese adults: cross-sectional analysis of a national sample

Vicky Mengqi Qin, Barbara McPake, Magdalena Z Raban, Thomas E Cowling, Riyadh Alshamsan, Kee Seng Chia, Peter C Smith, Rifat Atun, John Tayu Lee

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

BACKGROUND: Despite improvement in health outcomes over the past few decades, China still experiences striking rural-urban health ..

Community Health Workers as Influential Health System Actors and not "Just Another Pair Of Hands".

Sumit Kane, Anjali Radkar, Mukta Gadgil, Barbara McPake

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Health Policy and Management

BACKGROUND: Over the last 20 years, community health workers (CHWs) have become a mainstay of human resources for health in many l..

Strengthening routine immunization in Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional provincial assessment of front-line services

Christopher J Morgan, Olga PM Saweri, Nicholas Larme, Elizabeth Peach, Pele Melepia, Lucy Au, Michelle JL Scoullar, Mohammad Salim Reza, Lisa M Vallely, Barbara McPake, James G Beeson

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Routine immunization programs face many challenges in settings such as Papua New Guinea with dispersed rural populatio..