Coast, Ernestina


Dr Ernestina Coast  

Department

Position held

LSE Health

Department of Social Policy

Senior Lecturer in Population Studies

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Centre for Global Health Population, Poverty and Policy

Research Associate

Experience keywords:

cohabitation; population trends; anthropological demography; developing countries; demography; household; HIV/AIDS; reproductive health

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A demographer with a particular interest in the inter-relationships between social context and demographic behaviour, approached using a combination of demographic and ethnographic methods. Dr Coast’s work focuses on relationships, including union formation, sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Healthcare

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Tanzania; India; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa; Kenya

Languages:

Swahili [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6335

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Coast, Ernestina (2013) When legalising abortion isn’t enough. London School of Economics and Political Science

Randall, Sara and Coast, Ernestina and Compaore, Natacha and Antoine, Philippe (2013) The power of the interviewer: a qualitative perspective on African survey data collection. Demographic research, 28 (27). pp. 763-792. ISSN 1435-9871

Wekesa, Eliud and Coast, Ernestina (2013) Living with HIV post-diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences of Nairobi slum residents. BMJ Open, 3 (e00239). ISSN 2044-6055

Freeman, Emily and Coast, Ernestina (2013) Sex in older age in rural Malawi. Ageing and society, pp. 1-24. ISSN 0144-686X

Coast, Ernestina and Leone, Tiziana and Malviya, Alankar (2013) Gender-based violence and reproductive health in India. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2012

Puradiredja, Dewi Ismajani and Coast, Ernestina (2012) Transactional sex risk across a typology of rural and urban female sex workers in Indonesia: a mixed methods study. PLoS ONE, 7 (12). ISSN 1932-6203

Leone, Tiziana and Coast, Ernestina and Narayanan, Shilpa and De-Graft Aikins, Ama (2012) Diabetes and depression comorbidity and socio-economic status in low and middle income countries (LMICs): a mapping of the evidence. Globalization and health, 8 (39). ISSN 1744-8603

Coast, Ernestina and Leone, Tiziana and Malviya, Alankar (2012) Gender-based violence and reproductive health in five Indian states. In: Nakray, Keerty, (ed.) Gender-based violence and public health: international perspectives on budgets and policies. Routledge, New York, NY. ISBN 9780415504928

Vieira, Claudia and Portela, Anayda and Miller, Tina and Coast, Ernestina and Leone, Tiziana and Marston, Cicley (2012) Increasing the use of skilled health personnel where traditional birth attendants were providers of childbirth care: a systematic review. PLoS ONE, 7 (10). pp. 1-9. ISSN 1932-6203

Coast, Ernestina and Leone, Tiziana and Hirose, Atsumi and Jones, Eleri (2012) Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries. Health and place, 18 (5). pp. 1188-1197. ISSN 1353-8292

Jones, Eleri and Coast, Ernestina (2012) Social relationships and postpartum depression in South Asia: a systematic review. International journal of social psychiatry, 0 (0). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0020-7640

Kriel, Antoinette and Randall, Sara and Coast, Ernestina and Risenga, Arthur and Nyambura, Melissa (2012) From design to practice: how can large-scale household surveys better represent the complexities of the social units under investigation? In:XVIII South African Sociological Association Annual Congress: Knowledge, Technologies and Social Change (1st-4th July 2012 : Cape Town, South Africa).

Coast, Ernestina and Randall, Sara and Fanghanel, Alex and Lelievre, Eva and Ba-Gning, Sadio (2012) Sofa surfers and shed dwellers: new living arrangements and household surveys in the UK and France. In:European Population Conference (13th-16th June 2012 : Stockholm, Sweden).

Fanghanel, Alex and Coast, Ernestina and Randall, Sara (2012) Mapping intergenerational care across households in the UK: analysing proximity, propinquity and resources in the "tacit intergenerational contract". In:European Population Conference (13th-16th June 2012 : Stockholm, Sweden).

Golaz, Valerie and Antoine, Philippe and Randall, Sara and Coast, Ernestina (2012) Definition du menage et situation des personnes agees: comparaisons entre 4 pays Africains. In:Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference (2-4 May 2012 : Quebec, Canada).

Mathews, Paul and Sear, Rebecca and Coast, Ernestina and Iacovou, Maria (2012) Do preceding questions influence the reporting of childbearing intentions in social surveys? In:Population Association of America Annual Meeting (3-5 May 2012 : San Francisco).

Coast, Ernestina and McDaid, David and Leone, Tiziana and Pitchforth, E. and Matthews, Zoe and Iemmi, Valentina and Hirose, Atsumi and Macrae-Gibson, Rowena and Secker, Jane and Jones, Eleri (2012) What are the effects of different models of delivery for improving maternal and infant health outcomes for poor people in urban areas in low income and lower middle income countries? Department for International Development, London

2011

Corker, Jamaica and Coast, Ernestina (2011) Polygyny and family planning programs in sub-Saharan Africa: representation and reality. , Dakar, Senegal

Coast, Ernestina and Randall, Sara and Golaz, Valerie and Gnoumou, Bilampoa (2011) Problematic polygymy: implications of changing typologies and definitions of polygamy. In:Sixth African Population Conference (5-9 December 2011 : Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso).

Randall, Sara and Coast, Ernestina and Compaore, Natacha and Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo (2011) The power of the interviewer. In:Sixth African Population Conference (5-9 December 2011 : Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso).

Coast, Ernestina and Hennink, Monique and Hutter, Inge and Nzioka, Charles and Puri, Mahesh (2011) Qualitative research in demography: a review of the last decade. In:Sixth African Population Conference (5-9 December 2011 : Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso).

Weinberger, Michelle and Coast, Ernestina (2011) Making sense of Tanzania's fertility: the role of contraceptive use. , Dakar, Senegal

Iemmi, Valentina and Coast, Ernestina and Leone, Tiziana and McDaid, David (2011) Suicide and poverty: mapping the evidence in low and middle income countries. In:World Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health (17-21 October 2011 : Cape Town, South Africa).

Leone, Tiziana and Bisht, R. and Goisis, A. and Coast, Ernestina (2011) Raising overmedicalisation of births in Southern India: a demand or supply phenomenon? In:British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference (7-9 September 2011 : York, UK).

Randall, Sara and Coast, Ernestina and Leone, Tiziana (2011) Cultural constructions of the concept of household in sample surveys. Population studies, 65 (2). pp. 217-229. ISSN 0032-4728

2010

Coast, Ernestina and Leone, Tiziana and McDaid, David and Hirose, A and Jones, Eleri (2010) Postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in low income countries: mapping the evidence. In:Reproductive Morbidity and Poverty (6th November 2010 : London School of Economics).

Wekesa, Eliud and Coast, Ernestina (2010) "Just like a taste of water which is too little to quench the thirst": condom use among people living with HIV/AIDS in Nairobi urban slums. In:9th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH) (27-29 October 2010 : New York, USA).

Leone, Tiziana and Coast, Ernestina and Randall, Sara (2010) Did you sleep here last night? The impact of the household definition in sample surveys: a Tanzanian case study. In: European Population Conference (3-5 September 2010 : Vienna).

Coast, Ernestina and Randall, Sara and Leone, Tiziana (2010) Whose household?: the fuzziness of a critical concept in household surveys. In:New measurement issues in survey research (21st September 2010 : Royal Statistical Society, London).

Coast, Ernestina and Randall, Sara and Leone, Tiziana (2010) The household in household surveys. In:ESRC Research Methods festival (6th July 2010 : Oxford).

Coast, Ernestina (2010) The household in surveys: a focus on fuzziness. NCRM MethodsNews Newsletter, Summer pp. 5-5.

2009

Wekesa, Eliud and Coast, Ernestina (2009) "For ever and ever, Amen": facilitators of adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Nairobi urban informal settlements. In:International Conference on Urban Health (October 2009 : Nairobi).

Coast, Ernestina and Randall, Sara and Leone, Tiziana (2009) The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy and practice. In:XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference (27th September - 2nd October, 2009 : Marrakech, Morocco).

Coast, Ernestina and Mondain, Natalie and Rossier, Clementine (2009) Qualitative research in demography: quality, presentation and assessment. In:XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference (27th September - 2nd October, 2009 : Marrakech, Morocco).

Stillwell, John and Coast, Ernestina and Kneale, Dylan (2009) Fertility, living arrangements care and mobility: Understanding population trends and processes. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 9781402096815

Coast, Ernestina (2009) Fertility, living arrangements, care and mobility. In: Coast, Ernestina and Stillwell, John and Kneale, Dylan, (eds.) Fertility, living arrangements care and mobility: understanding population trends and processes. Springer, New York, USA, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9781402096815

Coast, Ernestina (2009) Currently cohabiting: relationship attitudes, expectations and outcomes. In: Stillwell, John and Coast, Ernestina and Kneale, Dylan, (eds.) Fertility, living arrangements care and mobility. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 9781402096815

2008

Leone, Tiziana and Coast, Ernestina and Malviya, Alankar (2008) Gender based violence and women's vulnerability towards HIV/AIDS in 6 Indian Districts. , Mexico City

Puradiredja, Dewi Ismajani and Coast, Ernestina and Sear, Rebecca (2008) Why do female sex workers in Indonesia not use condoms?: a mixed methods study of the heterogeneous contexts of condom use. In:European Population Conference (9-12 July 2008 : Barcelona, Spain).

2007

Coast, Ernestina and Hampshire, Katherine and Randall, Sara (2007) Disciplining anthropological demography. Demographic research, 16 (1). pp. 493-518. ISSN 1435-9871

Coast, Ernestina (2007) Wasting semen: context and condom use among the Maasai. Culture, health and sexuality, 9 (4). pp. 387-401. ISSN 1369-1058

Coast, Ernestina (2007) Reproductive health and the MDGs: rhetoric and reality. In: Agarwal, Manmohan and Shovon Ray, Amit, (eds.) Globalization and the millennium development goals: negotiating the challenge. Berghahn Books, Oxford. ISBN 9788187358329

2006

Coast, Ernestina (2006) Local understandings of, and responses to, HIV: rural–urban migrants in Tanzania. Social science and medicine, 63 (4). pp. 1000-1010. ISSN 0277-9536

Homewood, K. and Coast, E. and Kiruswa, S. and Serneels, S. and Thompson, M. and Trench, P. (2006) Maasai pastoralists : diversification and poverty. In:Pastoralism and Poverty Reduction in East Africa : A Policy Research Conference (27-28 June 2006 : International Livestock Research Institute).

Coast, Ernestina (2006) Maasai marriage: a comparative study of Kenya and Tanzania. Journal of comparative family studies, 37 (3). pp. 399-420. ISSN 0047-2328

2005

Coast, Ernestina (2005) Maasai marriage: a comparative study of Kenya and Tanzania. In:International Union for the Scientific Study of Population XXV International Population Conference (18-23 Jul 2005 : Tours, France).

Coast, Ernestina (2005) Sexual behaviour and perceptions of risk: male rural-urban migrants in Tanzania. In:International Union for the Scientific Study of Population XXV International Population Conference (18-23 Jul 2005 : Tours, France).

Coast, Ernestina (2005) Female genital cutting. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopaedia of international development. Routledge, London and New York:, pp. 235-236. ISBN 9780415253420

Coast, Ernestina (2005) Malthusian demography. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopaedia of international development. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 424-425. ISBN 9780415-253420

Homewood, Catherine and Thompson, Michael and Trench, Pippa and Kiruswa, Steven and Coast, Ernestina (2005) Gestione delle risorse naturali su base comunitaria e statle e livelihood locali nel Maasailand. Afriche e orienti, 7 (2). pp. 84-101. ISSN 1592-6753

2004

Homewood, K. and Coast, Ernestina and Thompson, D. M. (2004) In-migrants and exclusion in east African rangelands: access, tenure and conflict. Africa, 74 (4). pp. 567-610. ISSN 0001-9720

2003

Coast, Ernestina (2003) An evaluation of demographers' use of ethnographies. Population studies, 57 (3). pp. 337-347. ISSN 1477-4747

Coast, Ernestina (2003) Wasting sperm: the cultural context of condom use among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania. In:International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Workshop on Taking Stock of the Condom in the Era of HIV/AIDS (13-17 July 2003 : University of Botswana).

Coast, Ernestina (2003) Book review: forced mortality and migration. Population Studies, 57 (1). pp. 114-115. ISSN 0032-4728

2002

Coast, Ernestina (2002) Maasai socio-economic conditions : cross-border comparison. Human ecology, 30 (1). pp. 79-105. ISSN 0300-7839

Coast, Ernestina (2002) Demography of the Marsh Arabs. In: Nicholson, E. and Clark, P., (eds.) The Iraqi Marshlands : a human and environmental study. Politico's Publishing, London, pp. 19-35. ISBN 1842750429

Coast, Ernestina (2002) Population trends in developing countries. In: Desai, V and Potter, R, (eds.) The Arnold companion to development studies. Hodder Arnold, London, pp. 360-367. ISBN 0340614528

2001

Homewood, K. and Lambin, E. F. and Coast, Ernestina and Kariuki, A. and Kikula, I. and Kivelia, J. and Said, M. and Serneels, S. and Thompson, M. (2001) Long term changes in African savanna wildlife and land cover : pastoralists or policies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 98 (22). pp. 12544-12549. ISSN 1091-6490

Coast, Ernestina (2001) Maasai demography. University of London, University College London;Department of Anthropology

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My co-edited book Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility examines important trends underpinning reductions in fertility, including delayed child-bearing and increased childlessness, and the implications for an ageing population.

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