A5078301333- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Global Health Care Issues
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Malaria Research and Control
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Global Health and Surgery
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Social Sciences and Governance
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- International Development and Aid
- Health disparities and outcomes
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Global Health and Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University
2017-2024
World Bank
1996-2018
World Bank Group
2017-2018
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
2009-2011
Imperial College London
2009
Resources For The Future
2009
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
2001
Hungarian National Bank
1998
Aga Khan University
1993
World Health Organization
1989
The benefits of integrating programmes that emphasize specific interventions into health systems to improve outcomes have been widely debated. This debate has driven by narrow binary considerations integrated (horizontal) versus non-integrated (vertical) programmes, and characterized polarization views with protagonists for against integration arguing the relative merits each approach. presence both in many countries suggests
This paper reports on a study of the cross-national trends in health status during economic transition and associated sector reforms Central Eastern Europe (CEE). The central premise is that before long-run gains are realized, towards market economy adoption democratic forms government should lead to short-run deterioration as result of: (i) reduction real income widening disparities; (ii) stress stress-related behaviour; (iii) lax regulation environmental occupational risks; (iv) breakdown...
Abstract The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed the fragility of pre-crisis African health systems, in which too little was invested over past decades. Yet, development assistance for (DAH) more than doubled between 2000 and 2020, raising questions about role effectiveness DAH triggering sustaining systems investments. This paper analyses inter-regional variations trends Africa relation to some key indicators system financing service delivery performance, examining (1) five...
Background Effective delivery of diabetes care requires integration across specialist teams delivering recognized interventions, a reliable pharmaceutical supply, and promoting self-management. Drawing on framework incorporating physical, human, intellectual social resources, the paper examines how these challenges are managed in Georgia. Methods The rapid appraisal study triangulated data from interviews with users, providers key informants various institutions four regions Georgia;...
Background Many countries have committed to achieving Universal Health Coverage.This paper summarizes selected health financing themes from five middle-income country case studies with incomplete progress towards UHC. MethodsThe focuses on key flagship UHC programs in these countries, which exist along other publicly financed delivery systems, reviewed through the lens of functions such as revenue raising, pooling and purchasing well governance institutional arrangements. ResultsThere is...
The Global Plan to Stop TB calls for significant financial resources meet the Millennium Development Goals tuberculosis. However, it is unclear whether economic benefits of control exceed costs. Using an epidemiological model, we find that relative sustained DOTS (a commonly used treatment method) were unambiguously greater than incremental costs in all nine high-burden countries Africa and Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia. Benefit-cost ratios sustaining at current levels having no exceeded 1...
The research done for this paper is part of the background analysis undertaken to support work Global Commission on Pollution, Health and Development, an initiative Lancet, Alliance Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai. expands areas where current literature has gaps in knowledge related health care cost pollution.This study aims generate initial estimate total tangible expenditure attributable man-made pollution affecting air, soil water.We use two methodologies establish upper lower bounds...
Fifty-five years after independence, indicators of Nigeria's health outcomes and coverage basic services show underperformance, both in absolute terms relative to other countries at s...