Browsing Faculty of Medicine by Journals "BMJ Global Health"

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    • An analysis of clinical predictive values for radiographic pneumonia in children 

      Rees, Chris A; Basnet, Sudha; Gentile, Angela; Gessner, Bradford D; Kartasasmita, Cissy B.; Lucero, Marilla G.; Martinez, Luis Moreno; O'Grady, Kerry-Ann F; Ruvinsky, Raul O; Turner, Claudia; Campbell, Harry; Nair, Harish; Falconer, Jennifer; Williams, Linda J.; Horne, Margaret; Strand, Tor A; Nisar, Yasir B; Qazi, Shamim A; Neuman, Mark I (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Abstract Introduction Healthcare providers in resource-limited settings rely on the presence of tachypnoea and chest indrawing to establish a diagnosis of pneumonia in children. We aimed to determine the test characteristics ...

    • The cost-effectiveness of using resultsbased financing to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in Malawi 

      Chinkhumba, Jobiba Joe Henderson; De Allergi, Manuela; Brenner, Stephan; Robberstad, Bjarne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Introduction Results-based financing (RBF) is being promoted to increase coverage and quality of maternal and perinatal healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. Evidence on the cost-effectiveness of RBF is ...

    • 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. ...

    • Country readiness and prerequisites for successful design and transition to implementation of essential packages of health services: Experience from six countries 

      Alwan, Ala; Majdzadeh, Reza; Yamey, Gavin; Blanchet, Karl; Hailu, Alemayehu; Jama, Mohamed; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Musa, Mohammed Yusuf Ahmed; Omar, Omar Mwalim; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Safi, Najibullah; Siddiqi, Sameen; Zaidi, Raza (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This paper reviews the experience of six low-income and lower middle-income countries in setting their own essential packages of health services (EPHS), with the purpose of identifying the key requirements for the successful ...

    • Decision-making processes for essential packages of health services: Experience from six countries 

      Baltussen, Rob; Omar, Omar Mwalim; Blanchet, Karl; Carballo, Manuel; Eregata, Getachew Teshome; Hailu, Alemayehu; Huda, Maryam; Jama, Mohamed; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Reynolds, Teri; Raza, Wajeeha; Mallender, Jacque; Majdzadeh, Reza (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Many countries around the world strive for universal health coverage, and an essential packages of health services (EPHS) is a central policy instrument for countries to achieve this. It defines the coverage of services ...

    • Effect of kangaroo mother care initiated in community settings on financial risk protection of low-income households: a randomised controlled trial in Haryana, India 

      Choudhary, Tarun Shankar; Mazumder, Sarmila; Haaland, Øystein Ariansen; Taneja, Sunita; Bahl, Rajiv; Martines, Jose Carlos; Bahn, Maharaj Kishan; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Bhandari, Nita; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Introduction Many families in low-income and middle-income countries have high out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) for healthcare, and some face impoverishment. We aimed to assess the effect of Kangaroo Mother Care initiated ...

    • Global, regional and national burden of bladder cancer and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019 

      Safiri, Saeid; Kolahi, Ali-Asghar; Naghavi, Mohsen; Nejadghaderi, Seyed Aria; Mansournia, Mohammad Ali; Sullman, Mark; Almasi-Hashiani, Amir; Sepidarkish, Mahdi; Ashrafi-Asgarabad, Ahad; Abdoli, Amir; Abu-Gharbieh, Eman; Advani, Shailesh M.; Alahdab, Fares; Alipour, Vahid; Amini, Erfan; Anbesu, Etsay Woldu; Anderson, Jason A.; Arabloo, Jalal; Awedew, Atalel Fentahun; Baig, Atif Amin; Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth; Bijani, Ali; Biondi, Antonio; Bjørge, Tone; Braithwaite, Dejana; Caetano dos Santos, Florentino Luciano; Carreras, Giulia; Carvalho, Felix; Chu, Dinh-Toi; Compton, Kelly; Costa, Vera Marisa; Dai, Xiaochen; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Molla, Meseret Derbew; Desta, Abebaw Alemayehu; Dianatinasab, Mostafa; Ebrahimi, Hedyeh; Eftekharzadeh, Sahar; El Sayed, Iman; Eshrati, Babak; Farzadfar, Farshad; Feleke, Berhanu Elfu; Fernandes, Eduarda; Filip, Irina; Fomenkov, Artem Alekseevich; Gallus, Silvano; Ghafourifard, Mansour; Ghashghaee, Ahmad; Golechha, Mahaveer; Gonfa, Kebebe Bekele; Gorini, Giuseppe; Hafezi-Nejad, Nima; Hamidi, Samer; Harvey, James D.; Hassanipour, Soheil; Hay, Simon I.; Henrikson, Hannah Jacqueline; Househ, Mowafa; Ibitoye, Segun Emmanuel; Ilesanmi, Olayinka Stephen; Ilic, Irena M.; Ilic, Milena D.; Joukar, Farahnaz; Kumar, G. Anil; La Vecchia, Carlo; Ladi-Seyedian, Seyedeh-Sanam; Lami, Faris Hasan; Landires, Iván; Li, Bingyu; Lugo, Alessandra; Majeed, Azeem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Mestrovic, Tomislav; Miazgowski, Bartosz; Michalek, Irmina Maria; Moghadaszadeh, Masoud; Mohamad, Osama; Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Abdollah; Reza, Mohammadpourhodki; Mohammed, Shafiu; Mokdad, Ali H.; Molokhia, Mariam; Monasta, Lorenzo; Moradzadeh, Rahmatollah; Nabavizadeh, Behnam; Naimzada, Mukhammad David; Nguyen, Cuong Tat; Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi; Nikbakhsh, Rajan; Nowroozi, Mohammad Reza; Nuñez-Samudio, Virginia; Otstavnov, Stanislav S.; Pham, Hai Quang; Pirestani, Majid; Pottoo, Faheem Hyder; Rabiee, Navid; Radfar, Amir; Rafiei, Alireza; Rathi, Priya; Rawaf, David Laith; Rawaf, Salman; Rezaei, Nima; Roberts, Nicholas L.S.; Roshandel, Gholamreza; Samy, Abdallah M.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Sha, Feng; Shaikh, Masood Ali; Sheikhbahaei, Sara; Malleshappa, Sudeep K. Siddappa; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Spurlock, Emma Elizabeth; Tadesse, Eyayou Girma; Tefera, Yonas Getaye; Tekalegn, Yohannes; Titova, Mariya Vladimirovna; Topor-Madry, Roman; Traini, Eugenio; Tran, Bach Xuan; Tran, Khanh Bao; Travillian, Ravensara S.; Vacante, Marco; Xu, Rixing; Yeshitila, Yordanos Gizachew; Zadnik, Vesna; Zamanian, Maryam; Zhang, Zhi-Jiang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Introduction The current study determined the level and trends associated with the incidence, death and disability rates for bladder cancer and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, from 1990 to ...

    • 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 ...

    • Impact of night travel ban on road traffic crashes and fatalities in Zambia: an interrupted time series analysis 

      Hangoma, Peter; Moonga-Mukale, Kantu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background The burden of road traffic crashes (RTCs) and road traffic fatalities (RTFs) has been increasing in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Most RTCs and RTFs happen at night. Although few countries, ...

    • Measuring progress towards universal health coverage: National and subnational analysis in Ethiopia 

      Eregata, Getachew Teshome; Hailu, Alemayehu; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Introduction: Aiming for universal health coverage (UHC) as a country-level goal requires that progress is measured and tracked over time. However, few national and subnational studies monitor UHC in low-income countries ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response 

      Doherty, Tanya; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv; Tylleskär, Thorkild; Burgoine, Kathy; Bærug, Anne Bergljot; Mercer, Raul; Baker, Phillip; Clark, David; Pereira-Kotze, Catherine Jane; Kroon, Max (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

    • The role of the private sector in delivering essential packages of health services: Lessons from country experiences 

      Siddiqi, Sameen; Aftab, Wafa; Venkat Raman, Raman; Soucat, Agnès; Alwan, Ala (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Many countries are adopting essential packages of health services (EPHS) to implement universal health coverage (UHC), which are mostly financed and delivered by the public sector, while the potential role of the private ...