Publications by authors named "Megan Christensen"
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- - Verbal autopsies (VAs) are used to gather data on the causes of child deaths, with Concern Worldwide partnering with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health to implement this in urban slums from 2014 to 2017.
- - Community Health Workers registered under-five child deaths, and trained local clinicians conducted interviews using a VA protocol, leading to 215 analyzed cases that revealed neonatal pneumonia and malaria as leading causes of death.
- - Key challenges included notifying deaths and conducting VAs, while findings highlighted themes like reliance on traditional medicine and barriers to accessing healthcare.
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- The study focused on the effectiveness of community engagement in health systems by implementing a participatory community-based health information system (PCBHIS) in slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- Through monthly reports and community health data review meetings, community members, leaders, and health workers collaborated to analyze child health data and propose improvements to local health services over a 20-month period.
- Results showed that the capacity of Ward Development Committees (WDCs) to engage with the health system significantly improved in intervention areas compared to the control areas, indicating the potential benefits of community engagement in health initiatives.
We measured skin conductance response (SCR) to escalating levels of a direct social threat from a novel, ecologically-relevant experimental paradigm, the Intruder Threat Task. We simultaneously evaluated the contribution of social symptom severity and behavioral movement. Children with AS group showed less psychophysiological reactivity to social threat than controls across all three phases of the experiment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Female athletes and active women require adequate nutrition for optimal health and performance. Nutrition assessments are needed to identify potential nutrients of concern. Folate, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 function in important pathways used during physical activity and female athletes may be at risk for poor status of these micronutrients.
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