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Global health worker salary estimates: an econometric analysis of global earnings data

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2018
Background Human resources are consistently cited as a leading contributor to health care costs; however the availability of internationally comparable data on health worker earnings for all countries is a challenge for estimating the costs of health ...
Juliana Serje, Melanie Y. Bertram, Callum Brindley, Jeremy A. Lauer   +3 more
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Inequalities in Health Status from EQ-5D Findings: A Cross-Sectional Study in Low-Income Communities of Bangladesh [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2016
Background Measuring health status by using standardized and validated instrument has become a growing concern over the past few decades throughout the developed and developing countries.
Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Sayem Ahmed, Wahid Ahmed, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Hafizur Rahman, Ziaul Islam, Jahangir A. M. Khan   +8 more
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Future and potential spending on health 2015-40: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries. [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: The amount of resources, particularly prepaid resources, available for health can affect access to health care and health outcomes. Although health spending tends to increase with economic development, tremendous variation exists among health
Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network
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The introduction of sickness insurance in Spain in the first decades of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1962) [PDF]

, 2013
[Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This
Pons Pons, Jerònia, Vilar Rodríguez, Margarita   +1 more
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Productivity change of national health systems in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: application of DEA-based Malmquist productivity index

Global Health Research and Policy, 2018
Background The pursuit of efficiency and productivity is one of the goals of health systems. In the era of Sustainable Development Goals and particularly the move towards universal health coverage, it is imperative to curb wastage of resources to ensure ...
Maysoun Dimachkie Masri, Eyob Zere Asbu
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Predictors of Optimal Antenatal Care Service Utilization Among Adolescents and Adult Women in Bangladesh

Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2018
Introduction: Utilization of recommended antenatal care (ANC) throughout the pregnancy period is a proven healthy behavior in reducing maternal mortalities and morbidities.
Nausad Ali, Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh, Raisul Akram, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Abdur Razzaque Sarker   +6 more
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Governing health service purchasing agencies: Comparative study of national purchasing agencies in 10 countries in eastern Europe and central Asia

Health Policy Open, 2023
This study discusses findings from comparative case studies of the governance of health services purchasing agencies in 10 eastern European and central Asian countries established over the past 30 years, and the relationship between governance attributes,
Loraine Hawkins, Kaija Kasekamp, Ewout van Ginneken, Triin Habicht   +3 more
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Prevalence and associated determinants of malaria parasites among Kenyan children

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2017
Background Approximately 80% of deaths attributed to malaria worldwide occurred mainly in Africa in 2015. Kenya is one of the major malaria endemic countries, making malaria the leading public health concern in this country.
Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Tania Jahir, Ziaul Islam, Abdur Razzaque Sarker   +5 more
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Financing transformative health systems towards achievement of the health Sustainable Development Goals: a model for projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet Global Health, 2017
Background: The ambitious development agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires substantial investments across several sectors, including for SDG 3 (healthy lives and wellbeing).
Karin Stenberg, MSc, Odd Hanssen, MSc, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, MSc, Melanie Bertram, PhD, Callum Brindley, BEcom, Andreia Meshreky, MSc, James E Rosen, MA, John Stover, MA, Paul Verboom, MBA, Rachel Sanders, MPP, Agnès Soucat, PhD   +10 more
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Unaffordability of COVID-19 tests: assessing age-related inequalities in 83 countries

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 is critical to manage the pandemic and its different waves. The requirement to pay out-of-pocket (OOP) for testing potentially represents both a financial barrier to access and, for those who manage to make ...
Gabriela Flores, Asiyeh Abbasi, Catherine Korachais, Rouselle Lavado   +3 more
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