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Overview

Bart Criel is affiliated with the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp in Belgium. Their research spans over multiple fields primarily related to health professions and medicine, with significant contributions in general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, finance, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics which include:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Healthcare Systems and Practices

The frequent publication venues for Bart Criel include:

  • BMJ Global Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • BMJ Open
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Bart Criel are:

  • How medical dominance and interprofessional conflicts undermine patient-centred care in hospitals: historical analysis and multiple embedded case study in Morocco (2021, BMJ Global Health)
  • No Mechanism Without Context: Strengthening the Analysis of Context in Realist Evaluations Using Causal Loop Diagramming (2020, New Directions for Evaluation)
  • Team-based primary health care for non-communicable diseases: complexities in South India (2020, Health Policy and Planning)
  • Improving primary care for diabetes and hypertension: findings from implementation research in rural South India (2020, BMJ Open)
  • Multisectoral action for health in low-income and middle-income settings: how can insights from social science theories inform intragovernmental coordination efforts? (2021, BMJ Global Health)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bart Criel include:

  • Faustin Chenge
  • Yves Coppieters
  • Sara Van Belle
  • Erick Mukala Mayoyo
  • Abdoulaye Sow

Best Publications

  • Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems.

    Guy Carrin;Maria Pia Waelkens;Bart Criel

  • Declining subscriptions to the Maliando Mutual Health Organisation in Guinea-Conakry (West Africa): what is going wrong?

    Bart Criel;Maria Pia Waelkens

  • Community health insurance in Uganda: why does enrolment remain low? A view from beneath.

    Robert Basaza;Bart Criel;Patrick Van der Stuyft

  • Out-of-pocket healthcare payments on chronic conditions impoverish urban poor in Bangalore, India

    Upendra Bhojani;BS Thriveni;Roopa Devadasan;CM Munegowda

  • Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure

    Narayanan Devadasan;Bart Criel;Wim Van Damme;Kent Ranson

  • Promoting universal financial protection: evidence from the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in Gujarat, India

    Narayanan Devadasan;Tanya Seshadri;Mayur Trivedi;Bart Criel

  • Abolition of user fees: the Uganda paradox

    Juliet Nabyonga Orem;Frederick Mugisha;Christine Kirunga;Jean Macq

  • The Health System Dynamics Framework: The introduction of an analytical model for health system analysis and its application to two case-studies

    J van Olmen;B Criel;U Bhojani;B Marchal

  • Visceral leishmaniasis control: a public health perspective.

    M. Boelaert;B. Criel;J. Leeuwenburg;W. Van Damme

  • Opening the 'black box' of performance-based financing in low- and lower middle-income countries: a review of the literature.

    Dimitri Renmans;Nathalie Holvoet;Christopher Garimoi Orach;Bart Criel

  • Community health insurance and universal coverage: multiple paths, many rivers to cross

    W. Soors;N. Devadasan;V. Durairaj;B. Criel

  • Improving access to hospital care for the poor: comparative analysis of four health equity funds in Cambodia

    Mathieu Noirhomme;Bruno Meessen;Fred Griffiths;Por Ir

  • Editorial: Iatrogenic poverty

    Bruno Meessen;Zhang Zhenzhong;Wim Van Damme;Narayanan Devadasan

  • The landscape of community health insurance in India: An overview based on 10 case studies

    Narayanan Devadasan;Kent Ranson;Wim Van Damme;Akash Acharya

  • Research, evidence and policymaking: the perspectives of policy actors on improving uptake of evidence in health policy development and implementation in Uganda

    Juliet Nabyonga Orem;David Kaawa Mafigiri;Bruno Marchal;Freddie Ssengooba

  • The Bwamanda hospital insurance scheme: effective for whom? A study of its impact on hospital utilization patterns.

    B Criel;P Van der Stuyft;W Van Lerberghe

  • Low enrolment in Ugandan Community Health Insurance Schemes: underlying causes and policy implications

    Robert K Basaza;Bart Criel;Patrick Van der Stuyft

  • Community health insurance in India; an overview

    N. Devadasan;K. Ranson;W. Van Damme;B. Criel

  • Analysing health systems to make them stronger

    J. van Olmen;B. Criel;W. Van Damme;B. Marchal

  • Patient-Centered Care and People-Centered Health Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Why So Little of Something So Badly Needed?

    Jeroen De Man;Roy William Mayega;Nandini Sarkar;Evelyn Waweru

  • A health insurance scheme for hospital care in Bwamanda District, Zaire: lessons and questions after 10 years of functioning.

    Bart Criel;Guy Kegels

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Marchal
Bruno Marchal Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Wim Van Damme
Wim Van Damme Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Robert Colebunders
Robert Colebunders University of Antwerp
Jeffrey V. Lazarus
Jeffrey V. Lazarus University of Barcelona
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rhoda K. Wanyenze
Rhoda K. Wanyenze Makerere University
George Pariyo
George Pariyo Johns Hopkins University
Gerald Bloom
Gerald Bloom Institute of Development Studies
Jan De Maeseneer
Jan De Maeseneer Ghent University
Carlo Giaquinto
Carlo Giaquinto University of Padua

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