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...
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...
Kate Mandeville, Carlos Marcelo Bortman, Cristina Marilena Sorina Petcu
Romania lags behind other EU countries in many health outcomes. Life expectancy at birth has been increasing gradually, but remains several years lower than the EU average, at 78.7 versus 83.3 years for women, and 71.5 versus 77.9 years for men. The main cause of death is heart disease, for which th...