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Overview

Margaret E. Kruk is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on medicine, economics, and health professions. The main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Health Professions

Their work also delves into specialized subfields such as:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

Margaret E. Kruk has researched a variety of global health and healthcare system topics. The main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • COVID-19 and resilience of healthcare systems in ten countries, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4, 2020, The Lancet
  • The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion, 2020, The Lancet
  • Disruption in essential health services in Mexico during COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis of health information system data, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Health system redesign for maternal and newborn survival: rethinking care models to close the global equity gap, 2020, BMJ Global Health

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • BMJ Global Health
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • PLoS Medicine
  • The Lancet
  • BMC Health Services Research

Key frequent collaborators include:

  • Catherine Arsenault
  • Jacinta Nzinga
  • Neena Kapoor
  • Todd P Lewis
  • Amit Aryal

Best Publications

  • High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

    Margaret E. Kruk;Anna D. Gage;Catherine Arsenault;Keely Jordan

  • [Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].

    Dean T. Jamison;Lawrence H. Summers;George Alleyne;Kenneth J. Arrow

  • NCD Countdown 2030: worldwide trends in non-communicable disease mortality and progress towards Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4

    James E Bennett;Gretchen A Stevens;Colin D Mathers;Ruth Bonita

  • Ending Africa's Poverty Trap

    Jeffrey D. Sachs;John W. McArthur;Guido Schmidt-Traub;Margaret Kruk

  • Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries

    Margaret E Kruk;Anna D Gage;Naima T Joseph;Goodarz Danaei

  • What is a resilient health system? Lessons from Ebola

    Margaret E Kruk;Michael Myers;S Tornorlah Varpilah;Bernice T Dahn

  • COVID-19 and resilience of healthcare systems in ten countries

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  • Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

    Ties Boerma;Jennifer Requejo;Cesar G Victora;Agbessi Amouzou

  • Assessing health system performance in developing countries: A review of the literature

    Margaret Elizabeth Kruk;Margaret Elizabeth Kruk;Lynn P. Freedman

  • NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4

    James E Bennett;Vasilis Kontis;Colin D Mathers;Michel Guillot

  • The contribution of primary care to health and health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a critical review of major primary care initiatives.

    Margaret Elizabeth Kruk;Denis Porignon;Peter C. Rockers;Wim Van Lerberghe

  • Disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility delivery in Tanzania: a facility and community survey

    Margaret E Kruk;Stephanie Kujawski;Godfrey Mbaruku;Kate Ramsey

  • Women's Preferences for Place of Delivery in Rural Tanzania: A Population-Based Discrete Choice Experiment

    Margaret E. Kruk;Magdalena Paczkowski;Godfrey Mbaruku;Helen de Pinho

  • Disrespect and abuse of women in childbirth: challenging the global quality and accountability agendas

    Lynn P Freedman;Margaret E Kruk

  • Essential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition

    Charles N Mock;Peter Donkor;Atul Gawande;Dean T Jamison

  • Borrowing and selling to pay for health care in low- and middle-income countries

    Margaret E. Kruk;Emily Goldmann;Sandro Galea

  • Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010–30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN Sustainable Development Goal for health

    Ole Frithjof Norheim;Prabhat Jha;Kesetebirhan Admasu;Tore Godal

  • Quality of basic maternal care functions in health facilities of five African countries: an analysis of national health system surveys

    Margaret E Kruk;Hannah H Leslie;Stéphane Verguet;Godfrey M Mbaruku

  • Defining disrespect and abuse of women in childbirth: a research policy and rights agenda.

    Lynn P. Freedman;Kate Ramsey;Timothy Abuya;Benjamin Bellows

  • Building resilient health systems: a proposal for a resilience index

    Margaret E Kruk;Emilia J Ling;Asaf Bitton;Melani Cammett

  • Bypassing primary care facilities for childbirth: a population-based study in rural Tanzania

    Margaret E Kruk;Godfrey Mbaruku;Colin W McCord;Molly Moran

  • Rebuilding health systems to improve health and promote statebuilding in post-conflict countries: A theoretical framework and research agenda

    Margaret E. Kruk;Margaret E. Kruk;Lynn P. Freedman;Grace A. Anglin;Ronald J. Waldman

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandro Galea
Sandro Galea Washington University in St. Louis
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco
Atul A. Gawande
Atul A. Gawande Brigham and Women's Hospital
Stéphane Verguet
Stéphane Verguet Harvard University
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Mike English
Mike English Wellcome Trust
Rifat Atun
Rifat Atun Harvard University
Felicia Marie Knaul
Felicia Marie Knaul University of Miami
Lisa R. Hirschhorn
Lisa R. Hirschhorn Northwestern University

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