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Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health After the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: An Investigation of the Long-term Gendered Impacts of Disasters

Overview of attention for article published in Maternal and Child Health Journal, July 2017
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Title
Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health After the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: An Investigation of the Long-term Gendered Impacts of Disasters
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Maternal and Child Health Journal, July 2017
DOI 10.1007/s10995-017-2350-8
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Jan Brunson

Abstract

Introduction Natural disasters in resource-poor countries have differential effects on socially disadvantaged groups such as women. In addition to the acute reproductive health needs of women during the immediate response phase of a disaster, research suggests that maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) may continue to be seriously impacted for numerous months, even years, after the event. Methods This ethnographic field research investigates the impacts of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes on mothers and children under five on the 6-month anniversary of the earthquakes. Results Though families were not channeling household funds away from health care expenses for pregnant and lactating women and children under five, the findings suggest that a delayed response by the Nepali government in administering funds for rebuilding combined with an ongoing fuel crisis were negatively impacting families' abilities to provide adequate shelter, warmth, cooking gas, and transportation for mothers and young children. This study highlights the importance of understanding the impacts of specific social and political contexts on intra-household family finances as they relate to MNCH, not just variables related to the disaster itself. Discussion Future research and policies on MNCH during the long-term recovery period after a natural disaster such as the 2015 Nepal earthquakes therefore should take into account the social and political context as well as institute multiple periodic assessments of MNCH in the first few years following the disaster.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 125 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Researcher 8 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 44 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 23 18%
Social Sciences 21 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 11%
Psychology 8 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Other 9 7%
Unknown 47 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2017.
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#2,126,497
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Outputs from Maternal and Child Health Journal
#206
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#40,429
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Outputs of similar age from Maternal and Child Health Journal
#7
of 48 outputs
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