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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 57 Citations 11,751 202 World Ranking 758 National Ranking 150

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Health care
  • Management
  • Public health

Her primary areas of study are Environmental health, Health policy, Developing country, Public health and Public economics. Her research in Environmental health intersects with topics in Psychological intervention, Malaria, Sulfadoxine, Socioeconomic status and Child mortality. Her Health policy research is within the category of Economic growth.

Her studies deal with areas such as Private sector and Public sector as well as Public health. Her work deals with themes such as Discounting, Health care and Equity, which intersect with Public economics. Her study in Health care is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Actuarial science and Revenue.

Her most cited work include:

  • Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review. (572 citations)
  • Calculating and presenting disability adjusted life years (DALYs) in cost-effectiveness analysis. (283 citations)
  • What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries? (248 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her primary areas of investigation include Public health, Malaria, Health care, Health policy and Economic growth. The study incorporates disciplines such as Psychological intervention, Poverty, Public sector and Family medicine in addition to Public health. Her Malaria study combines topics in areas such as Supply chain, Private sector, Socioeconomics and Environmental health.

Her Environmental health research incorporates themes from Socioeconomic status and Pediatrics. Her Health policy research integrates issues from Health services research, Public economics and Health promotion. Kara Hanson studies Developing country, a branch of Economic growth.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Public health (22.76%)
  • Malaria (22.01%)
  • Health care (21.64%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Health care (21.64%)
  • Public health (22.76%)
  • Health policy (18.66%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her main research concerns Health care, Public health, Health policy, Private sector and Malaria. Her Health economics study in the realm of Health care connects with subjects such as Checklist. Her work carried out in the field of Public health brings together such families of science as Economic growth, Capitation, Psychological intervention and Family medicine.

Her Health policy study incorporates themes from Public administration, Health services research, Qualitative research and Health promotion. Her Health services research research includes themes of Developing country and Equity. The concepts of her Malaria study are interwoven with issues in Under-five, Environmental health and Emergency medicine.

Between 2015 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Managing the public-private mix to achieve universal health coverage. (51 citations)
  • Enhancing financial protection under China’s social health insurance to achieve universal health coverage (31 citations)
  • Economic Evaluation in Global Perspective: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Recent Literature. (27 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Health care
  • Management
  • Public health

Kara Hanson mainly focuses on Private sector, Public health, Developing country, Health services research and Health care. Her Private sector research also works with subjects such as

  • Market share that connect with fields like Socioeconomics and Psychological intervention,
  • Public sector and related Malaria,
  • Marketing which is related to area like Accreditation and Poor people. The various areas that Kara Hanson examines in her Developing country study include Developed country, Cluster randomised controlled trial and Demography.

Her Health services research research includes themes of Capitation, Public economics, Health indicator and Health policy. Kara Hanson combines subjects such as Financial protection and Equity with her study of Public economics. Her research in Health care intersects with topics in Health facility, Cause of death and Environmental health.

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Best Publications

Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review.

Sudhir Anand;Kara Hanson.
Journal of Health Economics (1997)

890 Citations

Calculating and presenting disability adjusted life years (DALYs) in cost-effectiveness analysis.

J A Fox-Rushby;K Hanson.
Health Policy and Planning (2001)

426 Citations

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.
Health Policy and Planning (2009)

408 Citations

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

Anne Mills;Ruairi Brugha;Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake.
Bulletin of The World Health Organization (2002)

387 Citations

Building the field of health policy and systems research: social science matters.

Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson;Kara Hanson;Kabir Sheikh;Irene Akua Agyepong.
PLOS Medicine (2011)

335 Citations

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.
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (2006)

334 Citations

Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Framing the Questions

Kabir Sheikh;Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson;Irene Akua Agyepong;Kara Hanson.
PLOS Medicine (2011)

320 Citations

Expanding access to priority health interventions: a framework for understanding the constraints to scaling‐up

Kara Hanson;M. Kent Ranson;Valeria Oliveira‐Cruz;Anne Mills.
Journal of International Development (2003)

303 Citations

Is malaria a disease of poverty? A review of the literature.

Eve Worrall;Suprotik Basu;Kara Hanson.
Tropical Medicine & International Health (2005)

271 Citations

Scaling up in international health: what are the key issues?

Lindsay J Mangham;Kara Hanson.
Health Policy and Planning (2010)

268 Citations

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