A5086984924- Global Health Care Issues
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Economic Growth and Development
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Family Support in Illness
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2024-2025
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2014-2021
University of Washington
2014-2021
Palo Alto University
2016-2021
Stanford University
2016-2021
Bilkent University
2021
Seattle University
2015
<h3>Importance</h3> US health care spending has continued to increase, and now accounts for more than 17% of the economy. Despite size growth this spending, little is known about how on each condition varies by age across time. <h3>Objective</h3> To systematically comprehensively estimate personal public health, according condition, sex group, type care. <h3>Design Setting</h3> Government budgets, insurance claims, facility surveys, household official records from 1996 through 2013 were...
Demographic and epidemiological changes are shifting the disease burden from communicable to noncommunicable diseases in lower-income countries. Within a generation, share of attributed some poor countries will exceed 80 percent, rivaling that rich countries, but this is likely affect much younger people poorer The health systems unprepared for change. We examined shift estimated preparedness by ranking 172 nations using system capacity index disease. project with greatest increases...
Background In high-income countries, obesity prevalence (body mass index greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2) is highest among the poor, while overweight 25 prevalent across all wealth groups. contrast, in low-income of and higher wealthier individuals poorer individuals. We characterize transition from populations as countries develop, project burden poor for 103 countries. Methods findings Our sample used 182 Demographic Health Surveys World (n = 2.24 million respondents) 1995 2016. created...
Previous analyses of democracy and population health have focused on broad measures, such as life expectancy at birth child infant mortality, shown some contradictory results. We used a panel data spanning 170 countries to assess the association between cause-specific mortality explore pathways connecting democratic rule gains.We extracted HIV-free estimates from Global Burden Diseases, Injuries, Risk Factors Study 2016 information regime type Varieties Democracy project. These cover 46...
Importance Understanding health conditions with the most spending and variation across locations over time is important for identifying trends, highlighting inequalities, developing strategies lowering spending. Objective To estimate US care each of 3110 counties, 4 payers (Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, out-of-pocket payments), according to 148 conditions, 38 age/sex groups, 7 types from 2010 2019. Design, Setting, Participants Observational analysis using more than 40 billion...
Background When unaccounted-for group-level characteristics affect an outcome variable, traditional linear regression is inefficient and can be biased. The random- fixed-effects estimators (RE FE, respectively) are two competing methods that address these problems. While each estimator controls for otherwise effects, the require different assumptions. Health researchers tend to favor RE estimation, while from some other disciplines FE estimation. In addition alternative method called...
Tracking development assistance for health low- and middle-income countries gives policy makers information about spending patterns potential improvements in resource allocation. We tracked the flows of explored relationship between national income, disease burden, assistance. estimated that reached US$31.3 billion 2013. Increased from Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria; GAVI Alliance; bilateral agencies United Kingdom helped raise funding highest level date. The largest...
IMPORTANCEThe governments of high-income countries and private organizations provide billions dollars to developing for health.This type development assistance can have a critical role in ensuring that life-saving health interventions reach populations need.OBJECTIVES To identify the amount provided determine areas received these funds.EVIDENCE REVIEW Budget, revenue, expenditure data on primary agencies (n = 38) resources 146-183, depending year) from 1990 through 2014 were collected.For...
Abstract Objective To assess the relation between autocratisation—substantial decreases in democratic traits (free and fair elections, freedom of civil political association, expression)—and countries’ population health outcomes progress toward universal coverage (UHC). Design Synthetic control analysis. Setting country selection Global sample countries for all years from 1989 to 2019, split into two categories: 17 treatment that started autocratising during 2000 2010, 119 never autocratised...
The amount of international aid given to address noncommunicable diseases is minimal. Most it directed wealthier countries and focuses on the prevention unhealthy lifestyles. Explanations for current direction disease include that these are affluence benefit from substantial research development into their treatment in high-income better addressed through domestic tax policy measures reduce risk-factor prevalence than programs. This study assessed justifications. First, we examined...
Despite widespread recognition that universal health coverage is a political choice, the roles country's system plays in ensuring essential services and minimizing financial risk remain poorly understood. Identifying determinants of important for continued progress, understanding systems particularly valuable global economic recession, which tests commitment nations to protecting their its citizens shielding them from risk. We measured associations democracy has with government spending 170...
As growth in development assistance for health levels off, partners must make allocation decisions within tighter budget constraints. Furthermore, with the advent of comprehensive and comparable burden disease financing estimates, empirical evidence can increasingly be used to direct funding those most need. In our 'financing gaps framework', we propose a new approach harnessing information about aid. The framework was designed forward-looking, goal-oriented, versatile customizable range...
The US is facing a well-documented caregiving crisis, with more aging adults requiring informal in the home and fewer young people available to support them. This paper calculates current economic value of care provided by unpaid adolescents (ages 10 17) ill disabled family members. Leveraging large scale, national datasets, we estimate that $13.44 $50.59 billion. figure corresponds 3-14% $470 billion services adults. It 1.19 5.96 times most recent impact youths’ from 2009. We also provide...
Background There is great variation in annual health spending between countries, and differences how this financed. For example, the average spend on care low-income countries sub-Saharan Africa 2013 was $135 per person (in 2010 purchasing-power-parity dollars), whereas high-income it up to 22 times larger. Future estimates information about expected source of those funds are hugely important for successful short-term medium-term planning, maintaining fiscal sustainability, addressing...
BackgroundA country's wealth is an established predictor of population health outcomes. The distribution within a country also associated with outcomes, yet the relation between poverty and outcomes has not been as widely assessed in cross-country studies because insufficient data. In this study, we construct 22 complete, distinct, data series test how can explain variation health.MethodsThe World Bank's International Comparison Program estimates number people living at or below US$1·25 per...
Welcome to Annals of Global Health,Annals Health is a peer-reviewed, fully open access, online journal dedicated publishing high quality articles all aspects global health. The journal's mission advance health, promote research, and foster the prevention treatment disease worldwide. Its goals are improve health well-being people, equity, wise stewardship earth's environment. latest impact factor 3.64.Annals supported by Program for Public Common Good at Boston College. It was founded in 1934...