Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Verguet, Stéphane"
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Annual rates of decline in child, maternal, HIV, and tuberculosis mortality across 109 countries of low and middle income from 1990 to 2013: An assessment of the feasibility of post-2015 goals
Verguet, Stéphane; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Olson, Zachary D.; Yamey, Gavin; Jamison, Dean T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12)Background Measuring a country’s health performance has focused mostly on estimating levels of mortality. An alternative is to measure rates of decline in mortality, which are more sensitive to changes in health policy ... -
Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: Review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN Sustainable Development Goal for health
Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Jha, Prabhat; Admasu, Kesetebirhan; Godal, Tore; Hum, Ryan J.; Kruk, Margaret E.; Gómez-Dantés, Octavio; Mathers, Colin D.; Pan, Hongchao; Sepúlveda, Jaime; Suraweera, Wilson; Verguet, Stéphane; Woldemariam, Addis T.; Yamey, Gavin; Jamison, Dean T.; Peto, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-18)Background. The UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quantitative ... -
Balancing health and financial protection in health benefit package design
Lofgren, Katherine T.; Watkins, David A.; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Salomon, Joshua A.; Verguet, Stéphane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Policymakers face difficult choices over which health interventions to publicly finance. We developed an approach to health benefits package design that accommodates explicit tradeoffs between improvements in health and ... -
The burden of household out-of-pocket health expenditures in Ethiopia: estimates from a nationally representative survey (2015–16)
Kiros, Mizan; Dessie, Ermias; Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Verguet, Stéphane; Jbaily, Abdulrahman (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In Ethiopia, little is known about the extent of out-of-pocket health expenditures and the associated financial hardships at national and regional levels. We estimated the incidence of both catastrophic and impoverishing ... -
A cost-effectiveness analysis of maternal and neonatal health interventions in Ethiopia
Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Desalegn, Dawit; Hailemariam, Mengistu; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Verguet, Stéphane; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-18)Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan African countries contributing to the highest number of maternal and neonatal deaths. Coverage of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) interventions has remained very low in Ethiopia. We ... -
Country contextualisation of cost-effectiveness studies: lessons from Ethiopia
Johansson, Kjell Arne; Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Miljeteig, Ingrid; Habtemariam, Mahlet; Woldemariam, Addis Tamire; Verguet, Stéphane; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Emerging demographic, epidemiological and health system changes in low-income countries require revisions of national essential health services packages in accordance with standard healthcare priority setting methods. ... -
The economic value of reducing mortality due to noncommunicable diseases and injuries
Verguet, Stéphane; Bolongaita, Sarah Ann; Chang, Angela Y.; Cardoso, Diego S.; Stevens, Gretchen A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)With population aging, national health systems face difficult trade-offs in allocating resources. The World Bank launched the Healthy Longevity Initiative to generate evidence for investing in policies that can improve ... -
Estimating and Comparing Health and Financial Risk Protection Outcomes in Economic Evaluations
Verguet, Stéphane; Norheim, Ole F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives Improving health and financial risk protection (FRP, the prevention of medical impoverishment) and their distributions is a major objective of national health systems. Explicitly describing FRP and disaggregated ... -
Financial hardship associated with catastrophic out-of-pocket spending tied to primary care services in low- and lower-middle-income countries: findings from a modeling study
Bolongaita, Sarah Ann; Lee, Yeeun; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Haaland, Øystein Ariansen; Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Lee, Jongwook; Verguet, Stéphane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Financial risk protection (FRP) is a key component of universal health coverage (UHC): all individuals must be able to obtain the health services they need without experiencing financial hardship. In many ... -
Financial risk of road traffic trauma care in public and private hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional observational study
Dhufera, Hailu Tamiru; Jbaily, Abdulrahman; Verguet, Stéphane; Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Memirie, Solomon Tessema (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Road traffic injuries are among the most important causes of morbidity and mortality and cause substantial economic loss to households in Ethiopia. This study estimates the financial risks of seeking trauma ... -
Health gains and financial protection from pneumococcal vaccination and pneumonia treatment in Ethiopia: results from an extended cost-effectiveness analysis
Johansson, Kjell Arne; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Pecenka, Clint; Jamison, Dean T.; Verguet, Stéphane (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-09)Background: Pneumonia and pneumococcal disease cause a large disease burden in resource-constrained settings. We pursue an extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA) of two fully publicly financed interventions in Ethiopia: ... -
Health gains and financial risk protection afforded by public financing of selected interventions in Ethiopia: An extended cost-effectiveness analysis
Verguet, Stéphane; Olson, Zachary D.; Babigumira, Joseph B.; Desalegn, Dawit; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Kruk, Margaret E.; Levin, Carol E.; Nugent, Rachel A.; Pecenka, Clint; Shrime, Mark G.; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Watkins, David A.; Jamison, Dean T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05)Background: The way in which a government chooses to finance a health intervention can affect the uptake of health interventions and consequently the extent of health gains. In addition to health gains, some policies such ... -
Health gains and financial risk protection afforded by public financing of selected malaria interventions in Ethiopia: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis
Assebe, Lelisa Fekadu; Jiang Kwete, Xiaoxiao; Wang, Dan; Liu, Lingrui; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Jbaily, Abdulrahman; Verguet, Stéphane; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Malaria is a public health burden and a major cause for morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia. Malaria also places a substantial financial burden on families and Ethiopia’s national economy. Economic evaluations, ... -
Household expenditures on pneumonia and diarrhea treatment in Ethiopia: a facility-based study
Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Metaferia, Zewdu Sisay; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Levin, Carol E.; Verguet, Stéphane; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01-18)Background: Out-of-pocket (OOP) medical payments can lead to catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment. We quantified household OOP expenditure for treatment of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea and its impact on ... -
Inequalities in utilization of maternal and child health services in Ethiopia: the role of primary health care
Verguet, Stéphane; Levin, Carol; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Norheim, Ole F.; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02-12)Background: Health systems aim to narrow inequality in access to health care across socioeconomic groups and area of residency. However, in low-income countries, studies are lacking that systematically monitor and evaluate ... -
Is cycle network expansion cost-effective? A health economic evaluation of cycling in Oslo
Lamu, Admassu Nadew; Jbaily, Abdulrahman; Verguet, Stéphane; Robberstad, Bjarne; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background: Expansion of designated cycling networks increase cycling for transport that, in turn, increase physical activity, contributing to improvement in public health. This paper aims to determine whether cycle-network ... -
Modelling hospital operations: Insight from using data from paper registries in the obstetrics ward at a hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Bigelow, Benjamin; Nima, Dawit Desalegn; Salomon, Joshua A.; Verguet, Stéphane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In the Ethiopian health system, operations management techniques have been underutilised. Although previous research has outlined limitations of paper-based patient records, few studies have examined their potential utility ... -
Out-of-pocket expenditures for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in general and specialised cardiac hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional cohort study
Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Verguet, Stéphane; Bekele, A.; Amenu, K; Abdisa, Senbeta Guteta; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Background: Cardiovascular disease poses a great financial risk on households in countries without universal health coverage like Ethiopia. This paper aims to estimate the magnitude and intensity of catastrophic health ... -
Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in Ethiopia: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Abdisa, Senbeta Guteta; Ababulgu, Awel; Jerene, Degu; Bertram, Melanie; Strand, Kirsten; Verguet, Stéphane; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-12)Background: The coverage of prevention and treatment strategies for ischemic heart disease and stroke is very low in Ethiopia. In view of Ethiopia’s meager healthcare budget, it is important to identify the most cost-effective ... -
Protecting essential health services in low-income and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
Blanchet, Karl; Alwan, Ala; Antoine, Caroline; Cros, Marion Jane; Feroz, Ferozuddin; Amsalu Guracha, Tseguaneh; Haaland, Øystein Ariansen; Hailu, Alemayehu; Hangoma, Peter; Jamison, Dean T.; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Miljeteig, Ingrid; Jan Naeem, Ahmad; Nam, Sara L.; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Verguet, Stéphane; Watkins, David; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In health outcomes terms, the poorest countries stand to lose the most from these disruptions. In this paper, we make the case for a rational approach to public sector health spending and decision making during and in the ...