Dina Balabanova, Anne Mills, Lesong Conteh, Baktygul Akkazieva et al.
In 1985, the Rockefeller Foundation published Good health at low cost to discuss why some countries or regions achieve better health and social outcomes than do others at a similar level of income and to show the role of political will and socially progressive policies. 25 years on, the Good Health ...
Nahitun Naher, Roksana Hoque, Muhammad Shaikh Hassan, Dina Balabanova et al.
BACKGROUND: The dynamic intersection of a pluralistic health system, large informal sector, and poor regulatory environment have provided conditions favourable for 'corruption' in the LMICs of south and south-east Asia region. 'Corruption' works to undermine the UHC goals of achieving equity, qualit...
Benjamin Palafox, Martin McKee, Dina Balabanova, Khalid F. AlHabib et al.
BACKGROUND: Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key factor is household wealth, which may enable or limit a household's ability to...
Piya Hanvoravongchai, Sandra Mounier‐Jack, V. Oliveira Cruz, Dina Balabanova et al.
BACKGROUND: One of the key concerns in determining the appropriateness of establishing a measles eradication goal is its potential impact on routine immunization services and the overall health system. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of accelerated measles elimination activiti...
Eleanor Hutchinson, Nahitun Naher, Pallavi Roy, Martin McKee et al.
In 2008, Vian reported an increasing interest in understanding how corruption affects healthcare outcomes and asked what could be done to combat corruption in the health sector. Eleven years later, corruption is seen as a heterogeneous mix of activity, extensive and expensive in terms of loss of pro...
Benjamin Palafox, Yevgeniy Goryakin, David Stückler, Marc Suhrcke et al.
INTRODUCTION: Social capital, characterised by trust, reciprocity and cooperation, is positively associated with a number of health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that among hypertensive individuals, those with greater social capital are more likely to have their hypertension detected, treated and...
Blake Angell, Mushtaq Khan, Mir Raihanul Islam, Kate Mandeville et al.
OBJECTIVE: Doctor absenteeism is widespread in Bangladesh, and the perspectives of the actors involved are insufficiently understood. This paper sought to elicit preferences of doctors over aspects of jobs in rural areas in Bangladesh that can help to inform the development of packages of policy int...
Nahitun Naher, Dina Balabanova, Eleanor Hutchinson, Robert Marten et al.
Governance failures undermine efforts to achieve universal health coverage and improve health in low- and middle-income countries by decreasing efficiency and equity. Punitive measures to improve governance are largely ineffective. Social accountability strategies are perceived to enhance transparen...
Nahitun Naher, Roksana Hoque, Muhammad Shaikh Hassan, Dina Balabanova et al.
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Nahitun Naher, Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee, Mushtaq Khan et al.
Despite considerable investment by the Bangladesh government in measures to strengthen accountability and transparency, absenteeism among doctors remains a barrier to the achievement of Universal Health Coverage. Recent innovations in anti-corruption theory point to the importance of acting on the s...
Mir Raihanul Islam, Blake Angell, Nahitun Naher, Bushra Zarin Islam et al.
Absenteeism by doctors in public healthcare facilities in rural Bangladesh is a form of chronic rule-breaking and is recognised as a critical problem by the government. We explored the factors underlying this phenomenon from doctors' perspectives. We conducted a facility-based cross-sectional survey...
Blake Angell, Mushtaq Khan, Mir Raihanul Islam, Kate Mandeville et al.
Abstract Objective To elicit preferences of doctors over interventions to address doctor absenteeism in rural facilities in Bangladesh, a pervasive form of corruption across the country. Methods We conducted a discrete choice experiment with 308 doctors across four tertiary hospitals in Dhaka, Bangl...
Piya Hanvoravongchai, Sandra Mounier‐Jack, Valeria Oliveira Cruz, Dina Balabanova et al.
Abstract This chapter evaluates the impacts of accelerated measles elimination activities (AMEAs) on immunization services and health systems in six countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. The impacts of AMEAs are assessed according to the following components: go...