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| A McCaw-BinnsSummaryAffiliation: University of the West Indies Country: Jamaica Publications
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The development of primary health care in JamaicaA McCaw-Binns
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Ministry of Health, Kingston 7, Jamaica
West Indian Med J 50:6-10. 2001..This has led to a change in the role of the central Ministry of Health to one of policy-making, health promotion, setting standards, monitoring and evaluation of the quality of health care...- Maternal mortality surveillance in JamaicaA McCaw-Binns
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 100:31-6. 2008..To assess factors associated with under-reporting of maternal deaths from 1998, when maternal deaths became a Class I notifiable event in Jamaica and continuous maternal mortality surveillance was introduced, through 2003... - Small victories, new challenges: two decades of maternal mortality surveillance in JamaicaA McCaw-Binns
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
West Indian Med J 58:518-32. 2009..The paper summarizes the changing epidemiology of maternal mortality and the new challenges as Jamaica seeks to contribute to the international goal to reduce maternal mortality by 75% worldwide between 1990 and 2015... - Strategies to prevent eclampsia in a developing country: I. Reorganization of maternity servicesA M McCaw-Binns
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies, Jamaica
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 87:286-94. 2004..To determine whether changes in primary and secondary care service delivery could prevent antenatal eclampsia... 
Impact of the Jamaican birth cohort study on maternal, child and adolescent health policy and practiceA McCaw-Binns
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 24:3-11. 2010..Collaboration, good communication, being vigilant to opportunities to influence policy, and patience has contributed to our success...- Safe motherhood in Jamaica: from slavery to self-determinationAffette McCaw-Binns
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:254-61; discussion 261-2. 2005..Further reductions will require greater attention to the quality of emergency obstetric care... - Can research accelerate progress toward millennium development goal 5 (maternal health) in Jamaica?A McCaw-Binns
The Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
West Indian Med J 57:549-54. 2008..As Jamaica pursues its goal of developed nation status, and international grant financing shrinks, local civil society will need to fill the vacancy and invest in the most abundant natural resource, young people... - Epidemiologic transition in maternal mortality and morbidity: new challenges for JamaicaA McCaw-Binns
University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 96:226-32. 2007..Given interventions implemented in recent years to reduce maternal deaths, we sought to determine the incidence and causes of maternal deaths for 1998-2003... - Integrating research into policy and programmes. Examples from the Jamaican experienceD E Ashley
Centre for Sustainable Development, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica
West Indian Med J 57:555-61. 2008..The lessons learnt over more than two decades of practice in the field of public health from conducting research aimed at developing an indigenous evidence base for policies and programmes in Jamaica are summarized... - Access to care and maternal mortality in Jamaican hospitals: 1993-1995A McCaw-Binns
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Int J Epidemiol 30:796-801. 2001..As part of the reproductive health quality assurance programme, the Ministry of Health sought to review maternal deaths in public hospitals. These hospitals attend 95% of institutional births and 82% of all births... - Perinatal factors in students admitted to the University of the West Indies data from the Jamaican Perinatal StudyK Foster-Williams
University Health Services, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
West Indian Med J 59:295-9. 2010..To compare perinatal and social factors in students admitted to The University of the West Indies (UWI), Kingston, Jamaica, at age 18 years with those in the rest of the Jamaican Perinatal Cohort... - Health status and health maintenance practices among doctors and nurses at two hospitals in JamaicaJ L M Lindo
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
West Indian Med J 58:539-45. 2009..Probable barriers to seeking healthcare included confidentiality issues and the need to appear healthy to colleagues, patients and the community... - Adolescent ears: an avenue into their sexual and reproductive health valuesD Holder-Nevins
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
West Indian Med J 58:124-9. 2009..This study sought to understand what sexual and reproductive health messages Jamaican adolescents get via Dancehall music and how themes in these messages can inform the development of a questionnaire for further exploration of the subject... - Assumptions about disease treatment challenged in a family health clerkship: views of first clinical year medical studentsA Mitchell
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, West Indies
Educ Health (Abingdon) 18:14-21. 2005.... - Growth curves for normal Jamaican neonatesM Samms-Vaughan
Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
West Indian Med J 55:368-74. 2006..In conclusion, these ethnic and gender-specific growth curves are based on the most extensive dataset currently available in Jamaica for babies of West African descent... - Anticardiolipin antibodies in Jamaican primiparaeE K Kahwa
Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
J Obstet Gynaecol 26:122-6. 2006..Pregnancy outcome did not differ significantly with respect to aCL status. Aspirin therapy did not influence pregnancy outcome in the 49 aCL positive primiparae studied... - Mental well-being of doctors and nurses in two hospitals in Kingston, JamaicaJ L M Lindo
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
West Indian Med J 55:153-9. 2006..Intervention to improve general mental well-being should be targeted at new employees and should address child care, commuting and financial management... - Competition for adolescents' sexual and reproductive health values: is the media winning?D Holder-Nevins
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica
West Indian Med J 58:326-30. 2009..This study aimed to understand the sources and content of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information among Jamaican adolescents... 
Are skilled birth attendants really skilled? A measurement method, some disturbing results and a potential way forwardSteven A Harvey
Quality Assurance Project, University Research Co LLC, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Bull World Health Organ 85:783-90. 2007..We assessed SBA competence in five high maternal mortality settings as a basis for initiating quality improvement...