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Nadia Diamond-Smith
Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Publications - 101
Citations - 1725
Nadia Diamond-Smith is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 78 publications receiving 1158 citations. Previous affiliations of Nadia Diamond-Smith include University of California, Berkeley & Brown University.
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Where women go to deliver: understanding the changing landscape of childbirth in Africa and Asia.
Dominic Montagu,May Sudhinaraset,May Sudhinaraset,Nadia Diamond-Smith,Oona M. R. Campbell,Sabine Gabrysch,Lynn P. Freedman,Margaret E Kruk +7 more
TL;DR: The policies, programs and financing experiences in multiple countries are reviewed to understand the drivers of changing practices, and the consequences for maternal and neonatal health and the health systems serving women and newborns.
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Development of a tool to measure person-centered maternity care in developing settings: validation in a rural and urban Kenyan population.
TL;DR: A 30-item scale with three sub-scales to measure person-centered maternity care has high validity and reliability in a rural and urban setting in Kenya and is correlated with global measures of satisfaction with maternity services, suggesting criterion validity.
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Misinformation and fear of side-effects of family planning
TL;DR: Most fears were method-specific and respondents overwhelmingly stated that they would be more likely to use the family planning method they feared if counselled that there were no side-effects, which suggests programmes should focus on education about family planning methods and method mix.
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The Climate Change Challenge and Barriers to the Exercise of Foresight Intelligence
Lee Ross,Kenneth J. Arrow,Robert Cialdini,Nadia Diamond-Smith,Joan Diamond,Jennifer A. Dunne,Marcus W. Feldman,Robert Horn,Donald Kennedy,Craig Murphy,Dennis C. Pirages,Kirk R. Smith,Richard York,Paul R. Ehrlich +13 more
TL;DR: Although the reductions in energy consumption accomplished by initiatives and strategies fall far short of what is required to address impending global climate change, it is believed that the principles underlying these initiatives suggest ways to achieve more substantial reductions.
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‘Too many girls, too much dowry’: son preference and daughter aversion in rural Tamil Nadu, India
TL;DR: Findings suggest that daughter aversion, fuelled primarily by the perceived economic burden of daughters due to the proliferation of dowry, is playing a larger role in fertility decision‐making than son preference.