Health Financing and Economics
We aim to empower actors and increase accountability, transparency and responsiveness in health systems in support of progress towards financial protection as part of universal health coverage (UHC).
Documents and Publications
WHO Publications
Final report of the WHO consultative group on equity and universal health coverage
Peer-reviewed papers
CHOICE methods
2018
Econometric estimation of WHO-CHOICE country-specific costs for inpatient and outpatient health service deliveryKarin Stenberg, Jeremy A. Lauer, Georgios Gkountouras, Christopher Fitzpatrick and Anderson Stanciole
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation201816:1
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation201816:1
Global health worker salary estimates: an econometric analysis of global earnings dataJuliana Serje, Melanie Y.
BertramEmail author, Callum Brindley and Jeremy A. Lauer
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 201816:10
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 201816:10
2017
Disease control programme support costs: an update of WHO-CHOICE methodology, price databases and quantity assumptionsMelanie Y. Bertram, Karin Stenberg, Callum Brindley, Jina Li, Juliana Serje, Rory Watts and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation201715:21
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation201715:21
Costing methods and results
2018
Estimating health plan costs with the OneHealth tool, Cambodia
Cantelmo CB, Takeuchi M, Stenberg K, Veasnakiry L, Eang RC, Mai M, Murakoshi E.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.203737
Bull World Health Organ. 2018 Jul 1;96(7):462-470. doi: 10.2471/BLT.17.203737. Epub 2018 Jun 4.
Cantelmo CB, Takeuchi M, Stenberg K, Veasnakiry L, Eang RC, Mai M, Murakoshi E.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.203737
Bull World Health Organ. 2018 Jul 1;96(7):462-470. doi: 10.2471/BLT.17.203737. Epub 2018 Jun 4.
2017
Financing transformative health systems towards achievement of the health Sustainable Development Goals: a model for projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries
The Lancet Global Health , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , e875 - e887
The Lancet Global Health , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , e875 - e887
Economic evaluation
Cost
effectiveness of strategies to combat breast, cervical, and colorectal
cancer in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: mathematical modelling
studyGary M Ginsberg, Jeremy A Lauer, Sten Zelle, Steef Baeten, Rob Baltussen
BMJ 2012;344:e614 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e614 (Published 2 March 2012)
BMJ 2012;344:e614 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e614 (Published 2 March 2012)
Cost
effectiveness of strategies to combat cardiovascular disease, diabetes,
and tobacco use in sub-Saharan Africa and South EastMónica Ortegón, Stephen Lim, Dan Chisholm, Shanthi Mendis
BMJ 2012; 344 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e607 (Published 2 March 2012)
BMJ 2012; 344 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e607 (Published 2 March 2012)
Cost
effectiveness of strategies to combat chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease and asthma in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia:
mathematical modelling studyAnderson E Stanciole, Mónica Ortegón, Dan Chisholm, Jeremy A Lauer
BMJ 2012;344:e608 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e608 (Published 2 March 2012)
BMJ 2012;344:e608 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e608 (Published 2 March 2012)
Cost
effectiveness of strategies to combat vision and hearing loss in
sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: mathematical modelling studyRob Baltussen, Andrew Smith
BMJ 2012;344:e615 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e615 (Published 2 March 2012)
BMJ 2012;344:e615 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e615 (Published 2 March 2012)
Cost
effectiveness of strategies to combat neuropsychiatric conditions in
sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: mathematical modelling studyDan Chisholm, Shekhar Saxena
BMJ 2012;344:e609 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e609 (Published 2 March 2012)
BMJ 2012;344:e609 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e609 (Published 2 March 2012)
Cost
effectiveness of strategies to combat road traffic injuries in
sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: mathematical modelling studyDan Chisholm, Huseyin Naci, Adnan Ali Hyder, Nhan T Tran, Margie Peden
BMJ 2012;344:e612 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e612 (Published 2 March 2012)
BMJ 2012;344:e612 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e612 (Published 2 March 2012)
Intervention strategies to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in Mexico: cost effectiveness analysisJoshua A Salomon, Natalie
Carvalho, Cristina Gutiérrez-Delgado, Ricardo Orozco, Anna Mancuso, Daniel R Hogan, Diana Lee, Yuki Murakami, Lakshmi Sridharan, María Elena Medina-Mora, Eduardo González-Pier
BMJ 2012;344:e355 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e355 (Published 2 March 2012)
Other publications
2011
Chronic diseases and injuries in India
Patel V, Chatterji S, Chisholm D, Ebrahim S, Gopalakrishna G, Mathers C, Mohan V, Prabhakaran D, Ravindran RD, Reddy KS.
Lancet, 377: 413-28 (2011)
Patel V, Chatterji S, Chisholm D, Ebrahim S, Gopalakrishna G, Mathers C, Mohan V, Prabhakaran D, Ravindran RD, Reddy KS.
Lancet, 377: 413-28 (2011)
The mental health workforce gap in low- and middle-income countries: a needs-based approach
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Bruckner TA, Scheffler R, Shen G, Yoon J, Chisholm D, Morris J, Fulton B, Dal Poz M, Saxena S.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 89: 184-194 (2011)
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Bruckner TA, Scheffler R, Shen G, Yoon J, Chisholm D, Morris J, Fulton B, Dal Poz M, Saxena S.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 89: 184-194 (2011)
Discussion papers and book chapters
Franco Sassi, Michele Cecchini, Jeremy Lauer and Dan Chisholm
OECD Health working paper 48 (December 2009)
(31 July 2009)
Dan Chisholm and Huseyin Naci
HSF Discussion paper (December 2008)