Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan J. Cohen et al.
Lincoln Chen, Timothy Evans, Sudhir Anand, Jo Ivey Boufford et al.
In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative-a consortium of more than 100 health leaders-proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and ...
Timothy Evans, Monica Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
Foreword PART I: ESTABLISHING VALUES 1. Challenging Health Inequities: An Introduction 2. The Social Basis of Disparities in Health 3. Ethical Dimensions of Health Equity 4. Health Equity in a Globalizing World PART II: ASSESSING AND ANALYZING THE HEALTH DIVIDE Introduction to Part II 5. Measuring D...
Evans, Timothy, Whitehead, Margaret, Diderichsen, Finn, Bhuiya, Abbas et al.
Abstract This book is concerned with the research and policy analysis of the Global Health Equity Initiative (GHEI). It gives a truly global perspective on health equity, with contributors from each country. Reflecting the purpose of the GHEI itself, this book aims to contribute to the building of g...
Jahangir Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Timothy Evans
The Sustainable Development Goals target to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection (FRP) among other dimensions. There are four indicators of FRP, namely incidence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), mean positive catastrophic overshoot, incidence of impov...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Timothy Evans, Hilary Standing, Simeen Mahmud
How do we explain the paradox that Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in health and human development, yet its achievements have taken place within a health system that is frequently characterised as weak, in terms of inadequate physical and human infrastructure and logistics, and low performin...
Timothy Evans, Alayne M. Adams, Rafi Mohammed, Alison H. Norris
Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan Cohen et al.
Alayne M. Adams, Timothy Evans, Rafi Mohammed, Jennifer Farnsworth
Alayne M. Adams, Tanvir Ahmed, Shams El Arifeen, Timothy Evans et al.
A post-Millennium Development Goals agenda for health in Bangladesh should be defined to encourage a second generation of health-system innovations under the clarion call of universal health coverage. This agenda should draw on the experience of the first generation of innovations that underlie the ...
Dewan S Alam, Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
OBJECTIVE: To directly estimate how much smoking contributes to cause-specific mortality in Bangladesh. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted with surveillance data from Matlab, a rural subdistrict. Cases (n = 2213) and controls (n = 261) were men aged 25 to 69 years who had died between 2003 ...
Alayne M. Adams, Atonu Rabbani, Shamim Ahmed, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood et al.
By disaggregating gains in child health in Bangladesh over the past several decades, significant improvements in gender and socioeconomic inequities have been revealed. With the use of a social determinants of health approach, key features of the country's development experience can be identified th...
Taufique Joarder, Lal Rawal, Syed Masud Ahmed, Aftab Uddin et al.
BACKGROUND: Retaining doctors in rural areas is a challenge in Bangladesh. In this study, we analyzed three rural retention policies: career development programs, compulsory services, and schools outside major cities - in terms of context, contents, actors, and processes. METHODS: Series of group di...
Brian Latko, José Gomes Temporäo, Julio Frenk, Timothy Evans et al.
A. S. Akanda, Antarpreet Jutla, David M. Gute, Timothy J. Evans et al.
This article was published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization [ © 2012 Bulletin of the World Health Organization ] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.11.092189 The Journal's website is at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/3/11-092189.pdf