A5059887341- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global Health and Surgery
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Global Health and Epidemiology
Harvard Global Health Institute
2016-2025
Harvard University
2015-2024
Boston University
2016-2024
Harvard University Press
2020
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2018
University of Washington
2010-2017
World Bank
2017
Ministry of Health and Social Protection
2017
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2017
Seattle University
2014
The UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quatitative health target, "Avoid in each country 40% of premature deaths (under-70 that would be seen the 2030 population at 2010 death rates), and improve care all ages". Targeting overall mortality improved ignores no modifiable cause death, nor any disability is treatable (or also causes many...
Global efforts to increase births at health-care facilities might not reduce maternal or newborn mortality if quality of care is insufficient. However, little systematic evidence exists for the health caring women and babies in low-income countries. We analysed basic functions its association with volume deliveries surgical capacity five sub-Saharan African countries.In this analysis, we combined nationally representative system surveys (Service Provision Assessments by Demographic Health...
This articles serves as a guide to using cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) address health equity concerns. We first introduce the "equity impact plane," tool for considering trade-offs between improving total health—the objective underpinning conventional CEA—and objectives, such reducing social inequality in or prioritizing severely ill. Improving may clash with health, example, when effective delivery of services disadvantaged communities requires additional costs. Who gains and who loses...
Purpose Noncommunicable diseases, prominently cancer, have become the second leading cause of death in adult population Ethiopia. A population-based cancer registry has been used Addis Ababa (the capital city) since 2011. Availability up-to-date estimates on incidence is important guiding national control program Methods We obtained primary data 8,539 patients from and supplemented by 1,648 cases collected six Ethiopian regions. estimated number commonest forms diagnosed among males females...
Health policy instruments such as the public financing of health technologies (e.g., new drugs, vaccines) entail consequences in multiple domains. Fundamentally, policies aim at increasing uptake effective and efficient interventions subsequently leading to better benefits premature mortality morbidity averted). In addition, can provide non-health addition sole well-being populations beyond sector. For instance, social insurance programs prevent illness-related impoverishment procure...
Abstract Universal public finance (UPF)—government financing of an intervention irrespective who is receiving it—for a health entails consequences in multiple domains. First, UPF increases uptake and hence the extent consequent gains. Second, generates financial including crowding out private expenditures. Finally, provides insurance either by covering catastrophic expenditures, which would otherwise throw households into poverty or preventing diseases that cause them. This paper develops...
BackgroundIn China, there are more than 300 million male smokers. Tobacco taxation reduces smoking-related premature deaths and increases government revenues, but has been criticised for disproportionately affecting poorer people. We assess the distributional consequences (across different wealth quintiles) of a specific excise tax on cigarettes in China terms both financial health outcomes.MethodsWe use extended cost-effectiveness analysis methods to estimate, across income quintiles,...
BackgroundThe way in which a government chooses to finance health intervention can affect the uptake of interventions and consequently extent gains. In addition gains, some policies such as public insure against catastrophic expenditures. We aimed evaluate financial risk protection benefits selected that could be publicly financed by Ethiopia.MethodsWe used extended cost-effectiveness analysis assess gains (deaths averted) afforded (cases poverty bundle nine (among many other) Government...
Abstract Background Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE) was founded to serve Rwanda’s rural low-income population, providing subsidized cancer diagnosis and treatment with transport stipends for the lowest-income patients. We examined whether travel distance BCCOE associated advanced-stage diagnoses completion. Methods conducted a retrospective cohort study using medical record data from patients pathologically-confirmed breast 2012–2016. Women no prior surgery were included in stage...
The Measles & Rubella Initiative, a broad consortium of global health agencies, has provided support to measles-burdened countries, focusing on sustaining high coverage routine immunization children and supplementing it with second dose opportunity for measles vaccine through supplemental activities (SIAs). We estimate optimal scheduling SIAs in countries the highest burden.We develop an age-stratified dynamic compartmental model transmission. explore frequency order achieve control selected...
BackgroundThe post-2015 End TB Strategy sets global targets of reducing tuberculosis incidence by 50% and mortality 75% 2025. We aimed to assess resource requirements cost-effectiveness strategies achieve these in China, India, South Africa.MethodsWe examined intervention scenarios developed consultation with country stakeholders, which scaled up existing interventions high but feasible coverage Nine independent modelling groups collaborated estimate policy outcomes, we estimated the cost...