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Kara Hanson is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines including economics, medicine, and health professions, with a significant focus on health systems and reforms.

Their primary fields of study include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Medicine, and Health Professions. Subfields of interest cover General Health Professions, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Hanson's work addresses several main topics:

  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Health Policy and Planning
  • BMJ Global Health
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ Open

Kara Hanson has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, notably:

  • Edwine Barasa
  • Anita Musiega
  • Benjamin Tsofa
  • Lizah Nyawira
  • Sassy Molyneux

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Hanson include:

  • The household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 18 countries, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Analysing the Efficiency of Health Systems: A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2022, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
  • Examining purchasing reforms towards universal health coverage by the National Hospital Insurance Fund in Kenya, 2020, International Journal for Equity in Health
  • When technology precedes regulation: the challenges and opportunities of e-pharmacy in low-income and middle-income countries, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Management of human resources for health: implications for health systems efficiency in Kenya, 2022, BMC Health Services Research

Best Publications

  • Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review.

    Sudhir Anand;Kara Hanson

  • 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

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

    Kabir Sheikh;Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson;Irene Akua Agyepong;Kara Hanson

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

    J A Fox-Rushby;K Hanson

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

    Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson;Kara Hanson;Kabir Sheikh;Irene Akua Agyepong

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

    Anne Mills;Ruairi Brugha;Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake

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

    Lindsay J Mangham;Kara Hanson

  • 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

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

    Eve Worrall;Suprotik Basu;Kara Hanson

  • 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

  • Achieving universal coverage with health interventions.

    Cesar G Victora;Kara Hanson;Jennifer Bryce;J Patrick Vaughan

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

    Barbara McPake;Kara Hanson;Anne Mills

  • Can working with the private for-profit sector improve utilization of quality health services by the poor? A systematic review of the literature.

    Edith Patouillard;Catherine A Goodman;Catherine A Goodman;Kara G Hanson;Anne J Mills

  • Private health care provision in developing countries: a preliminary analysis of levels and composition.

    Kara Hanson;Peter Berman

  • The household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 18 countries

    Adrianna Murphy;Benjamin Palafox;Marjan Walli-Attaei;Timothy Powell-Jackson

  • Building the field of health policy and systems research: an agenda for action.

    Sara Bennett;Irene Akua Agyepong;Kabir Sheikh;Kara Hanson

  • Got ACTs? Availability, price, market share and provider knowledge of anti-malarial medicines in public and private sector outlets in six malaria-endemic countries

    Kathryn A O'Connell;Hellen Gatakaa;Stephen Poyer;Julius Njogu

  • DO MALARIA CONTROL INTERVENTIONS REACH THE POOR? A VIEW THROUGH THE EQUITY LENS

    Lawrence M Barat;Natasha Palmer;Suprotik Basu;Eve Worrall

  • Monitoring fever treatment behaviour and equitable access to effective medicines in the context of initiatives to improve ACT access: baseline results and implications for programming in six African countries

    Megan Littrell;Hellen Gatakaa;Illah Evance;Stephen Poyer

  • Some indicators of socio-economic status may not be reliable and use of indices with these data could worsen equity.

    Obinna Onwujekwe;Obinna Onwujekwe;Kara Hanson;Julia Fox-Rushby

  • Costs of near-miss obstetric complications for women and their families in Benin and Ghana.

    J. Borghi;K. Hanson;C. Adjei Acquah;G. Ekanmian

  • Improving the health of the global poor.

    Prabhat Jha;Prabhat Jha;Anne Mills;Kara Hanson;Lilani Kumaranayake

  • Enhancing financial protection under China’s social health insurance to achieve universal health coverage

    Hai Fang;Karen Eggleston;Karen Eggleston;Kara Hanson;Ming Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Goodman
Catherine Goodman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Anne Mills
Anne Mills London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Obinna Onwujekwe
Obinna Onwujekwe University of Nigeria
Barbara McPake
Barbara McPake University of Melbourne
Benjamin Uzochukwu
Benjamin Uzochukwu University of Nigeria
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Julia Fox-Rushby
Julia Fox-Rushby King's College London
Blessing Mberu
Blessing Mberu African Population and Health Research Center
Richard Smith
Richard Smith University of Exeter
Edwine Barasa
Edwine Barasa KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme

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