Nadia Diamond-Smith

Apr 30, 2024 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Nadia Diamond-Smith |Lakshmi Geetha Gopalakrishnan |Hannah H. Leslie |Elizabeth Katz

Introduction Despite significant progress, maternal and infant mortality and morbidity remain stubbornly high in South Asia.1 In India, a host of gendered risk factors, such as low women autonomy, early age at marriage, pressure to prove fertility early in marriage and preference for a male child, contribute to adverse maternal and neonatal health outcomes, including lower levels of perinatal care utilisation and preterm birth, low birth weight, neonatal complications and infant death, as...

Apr 30, 2024 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Nadia Diamond-Smith |Lakshmi Geetha Gopalakrishnan |Hannah H. Leslie |Elizabeth Katz

Introduction Despite significant progress, maternal and infant mortality and morbidity remain stubbornly high in South Asia.1 In India, a host of gendered risk factors, such as low women autonomy, early age at marriage, pressure to prove fertility early in marriage and preference for a male child, contribute to adverse maternal and neonatal health outcomes, including lower levels of perinatal care utilisation and preterm birth, low birth weight, neonatal complications and infant death, as...

May 11, 2023 | comminit.com | Nadia Diamond-Smith |Warren Feek

Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco - UCSF (Miguel, Sanders, Vosburg, Diamond-Smith); Wuqu' Kawoq, Maya Health Alliance (Lopez, Diaz); Stanford University School of Medicine (Skinner, Johnston) "[S]ocial media offers a unique opportunity to improve health communications targeted at hard-to-reach populations....In addition to providing educational information, these campaigns help counter the increasing amount of misinformation on these platforms." Indigenous people represent...