What We're Reading Now

Keeping up with the latest thinking

See what’s on our reading list right now:

Using a GIS to model interventions to strengthen the emergency referral system for maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia. Bailey P, Keyes E, Parker C, Abdullah M, Kebede H, Freedman L. IJGO. 2011

A national review of cesarean delivery in Ethiopia. Feeseha N, Getachew A, Hiluf M, Gebrehiwot Y, Bailey P. IJGO. 2011

Disease burden due to pre-eclampsia/eclampsia and the Ethiopian health system's response. Gaym A, Bailey P, Pearson L, Admasu K, Yirgu G, Ethiopian National EmONC Assessment Team. IJGO. 2011

Ethiopia's assessment of emergency obstetric and newborn care: Setting the gold standard for national facility-based assessments. Keyes E, Haile-Mariam A, Belayneh N, Gobezie W, Pearson L, Abdullah M, Kebede H. IJGO. 2011

Indicators for availability, utilization, and quality of emergency obstetric care in Ethiopia, 2008. Admasu K, Hailey-Mariam A, Bailey P. IJGO. 2011

The influence of distance and level of care on delivery place in rural Zambia: a study of linked national data in a geographic information system. Gabrysch S, Cousens S, Cox J, Campbell O. PLoS Medicine. 2011.

Highlights from earlier reading lists :

Capability traps? The mechanisms of persistent implementation failure. Pritchett L, Woolcock M, Andrews M. Center for Global Development (Working Paper 234). 2010.

Africa Development Indicators 2010: Silent and Lethal. The World Bank. 2010.

Reaching emergency obstetric care: overcoming the 'second delay' (briefing paper). Holmes W, Kennedy E. Melbourne, Australia: Burnet Institute on behalf of Compass, the Women's and Children's Health Knowledge Hub. 2010.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, Paul Hunt: Mission to India (22 November to 3 December 2007). UN Human Rights Council. 2010. Also see the Supplementary Note.

Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980—2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Hogan MC, Foreman KJ, Naghavi M et al. The Lancet. 2010. Also see AMDD's response.

Systems Thinking for Health System Strengthening. de Savigny D, Adam T, eds. Geneva: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization. 2009.

Science in Action: Saving the lives of Africa’s mothers, newborns, and children. Kinney MV, Lawn, JE, and Kerber KJ, eds. Cape Town, South Africa:. Report for the African Academy Science Development Initiative. 2009.

Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries: From Evidence to Action.
Peters DH, El-Saharty S, Siadat B, Janovsky K, and Vujicic M, eds. World Bank. 2009.

Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World. Milstein B. Atlanta, GA: Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2008.  

Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature. Fixsen DL, Naoom SF, Blase KA, Friedman RM, & Wallace F. Tampa, FL: The National Implementation Research Network. 2005.

Maternity referral systems in developing countries: Current knowledge and future research needs. Murray SF, Pearson SC. Social Science & Medicine. 2006;62:2205–2215.

Networks and capacity. Taschereau S, and  Bolger J. Maastricht: ECDPM. 2007.