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Barbara McPake is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans several key fields including Medicine, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Health Professions. The subfields of study most associated with their work include Finance, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, and Epidemiology.

Their research topics emphasize areas such as Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Global Maternal and Child Health, Global Health Care Issues, Chronic Disease Management Strategies, Health disparities and outcomes, Healthcare Policy and Management, and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

Barbara McPake has authored multiple papers with notable recent publications including:

  • Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Impact of non-communicable disease multimorbidity on health service use, catastrophic health expenditure and productivity loss in Indonesia: a population-based panel data analysis study, 2021, BMJ Open
  • Impact of Indonesia's national health insurance scheme on inequality in access to maternal health services: A propensity score matched analysis, 2020, Journal of Global Health
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in effective service coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: a comparative analysis of 39 low-income and middle-income countries, 2021, EClinicalMedicine
  • Imagining maternity care as a complex adaptive system: understanding health system constraints to the promotion of respectful maternity care, 2020, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • John Tayu Lee
  • Charles Normand
  • Anne Nolan
  • Rifat Atun
  • Samantha Smith

Barbara McPake's research is often published in venues such as:

  • The Lancet Global Health
  • BMJ Global Health
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • BMC Public Health
  • Social Science & Medicine

In addition to journal articles, their authorship includes book publications with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, including the 2023 work "Health Seeking Pathways in Four Indian States Of India."

Best Publications

  • How to do (or not to do) ... Designing a discrete choice experiment for application in a low-income country.

    Lindsay J Mangham;Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake

  • How to bridge the gap in human resources for health

    Charles Hongoro;Barbara McPake

  • What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries?

    Anne Mills;Ruairi Brugha;Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake

  • To retain or remove user fees?: reflections on the current debate in low- and middle-income countries.

    Chris D James;Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake;Dina Balabanova

  • Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data.

    Yang Zhao;Yang Zhao;Rifat Atun;Brian Oldenburg;Barbara McPake

  • Health Economics: An International Perspective

    Barbara McPake;Charles E. M. Normand

  • Informal economic activities of public health workers in Uganda: implications for quality and accessibility of care.

    Barbara McPake;Delius Asiimwe;Francis Mwesigye;Mathias Ofumbi

  • Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa

    David McCoy;Sara Bennett;Sophie Witter;Bob Pond

  • Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline.

    Giorgio Cometto;Nathan Ford;Jerome Pfaffman-Zambruni;Elie A Akl

  • Community financing of health care in Africa: An evaluation of the Bamako initiative

    Barbara McPake;Kara Hanson;Anne Mills

  • User charges for health services in developing countries: A review of the economic literature

    Barbara McPake

  • Private Health Providers in Developing Countries: Serving the Public Interest

    Sara Bennett;Barbara McPake;Anne Mills

  • Why performance-based contracting failed in Uganda: An 'open box' evaluation of a complex health system intervention

    Freddie Ssengooba;Barbara McPake;Natasha Palmer

  • Managing the public-private mix to achieve universal health coverage

    Barbara McPake;Barbara McPake;Kara Hanson

  • Task shifting in health care in resource-poor countries

    Barbara McPake;Kwadwo Mensah

  • Preferences for hospital quality in Zambia: results from a discrete choice experiment.

    Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake;Pamela Nakamba;Luke Archard

  • The health migration crisis: the role of four Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries

    Bob Pond;Barbara McPake

  • Health sector reforms and human resources for health in Uganda and Bangladesh: mechanisms of effect

    Freddie Ssengooba;Syed Azizur Rahman;Charles Hongoro;Elizeus Rutebemberwa

  • Healthcare-seeking behaviour among the tribal people of Bangladesh: Can the current health system really meet their needs?

    Syed Azizur Rahman;Tara Kielmann;Barbara McPake;Charles Normand

  • Public autonomous hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa: trends and issues

    Barbara Isobel McPake

  • Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Commentary

    Yogan Pillay;Percy Mahlati;David Mccoy;Sara Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Normand
Charles Normand Trinity College Dublin
Kara Hanson
Kara Hanson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sophie Witter
Sophie Witter Queen Margaret University
Rifat Atun
Rifat Atun Harvard University
Brian Oldenburg
Brian Oldenburg University of Melbourne
Anne Mills
Anne Mills London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott University of Melbourne
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dina Balabanova
Dina Balabanova London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
George Pariyo
George Pariyo Johns Hopkins University

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