Ravindra P Rannan‐Eliya

Biographic Data

ID7759369
NAMERavindra P Rannan‐Eliya
GIVEN NAMESRavindra P
FAMILY NAMERannan‐Eliya
SIGNATUREELIYA R P R
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka
ORCID0000-0002-5013-2816
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Hypertension diagnosis, awareness, treatment, and control in Sri Lankan adults

    Open AccessRavindra P Rannan-Eliya, Ravindra P Rannan‐Eliya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Only one in five Sri Lankans with hypertension achieve BP control, with the biggest cascade losses occurring at diagnosis and control after treatment. Our findings point to a substantial influence of providers. Efforts to improve hypertension control in Sri Lanka should focus on increasing detection through opportunistic screening and improving interventions to improve physician control of BP. These findings provide actionable insights for furthe…

  • Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 response and maintaining health services

    Open AccessRavindra P Rannan‐Eliya, Azrah Ghaffoor et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    This study examines how Sri Lanka, a lower-middle income country, managed its COVID-19 response and maintained health services. It draws on an extensive document review, key informant interviews and a national survey of public experience and opinion to assess what Sri Lanka did, its effectiveness and why. Owing to a strong health system and luck, Sri Lanka stopped the first wave of COVID-19 infections, and it adopted a ‘Zero-COVID’ approach with …

  • Maintaining essential health services during Covid-19

    Open AccessMoytrayee Guha, Arielle Cohen Tanugi-Carresse et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted the delivery of essential health services (EHS) worldwide, contributing to excess morbidity and mortality from preventable conditions. Some countries employed innovative strategies that may have enabled their health systems to be more resilient than others in responding to COVID-19. This cross-country analysis aimed to identify beneficial practices and policies employed by six low- and middle-income countr…

  • Optimizing cardiovascular disease risk screening in a low-resource setting

    Open AccessNilmini Wijemunige, Ravindra P Rannan-Eliya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    In Sri Lanka, CVD risk screening scenarios that used the WHO-2019 office-based risk tool, screened people above the age of 40, and lowered risk and blood pressure thresholds would likely be cost-effective, generating an additional QALY at less than half a GDP per capita

  • Financing malaria

    Open AccessRavindra P Rannan‐Eliya, Genevieve Cecilia AryeeteyARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The faltering of progress towards malaria elimination follows a plateauing in international financing since 2010. Despite calls for increased international financing, this will be hard to achieve. Both developed country donors and developing countries with malaria face severe fiscal constraints in expanding malaria funding in the next few years. Simply exhorting countries to spend more is unlikely to be successful, just as the Abuja declaration w…

  • Effects of a lifestyle intervention programme after 1 year of follow-up among South Asians at high risk of type 2 diabetes

    Open AccessMirthe Muilwijk, Marie Loh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: South Asians are at high risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We assessed whether intensive family-based lifestyle intervention leads to significant weight loss, improved glycaemia and blood pressure in adults at elevated risk for T2D. METHODS: This cluster randomised controlled trial (iHealth-T2D) was conducted at 120 locations across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK. We included 3684 South Asian men and women, aged 40-70 years, wit…

  • The quality of care in outpatient primary care in public and private sectors in Malaysia

    Open AccessMay Chien Chin, Sheamini Sivasampu et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2019References: 18

    In Malaysia, first-contact, primary care is provided by parallel public and private sectors, which are completely separate in organization, financing and governance. As the country considers new approaches to financing, including using public schemes to pay for private care, it is crucial to examine the quality of clinical care in the two sectors to make informed decisions on public policy. This study intends to measure and compare the quality of…

  • Global health security

    Open AccessDavid L Heymann, Lincoln Chen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015

    The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa was unprecedented in both its scale and impact. Out of this human calamity has come renewed attention to global health security--its definition, meaning, and the practical implications for programmes and policy. For example, how does a government begin to strengthen its core public health capacities, as demanded by the International Health Regulations? What counts as a global health security concern…

  • Quality of inpatient care in public and private hospitals in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessRavindra P Rannan-Eliya, Ravindra P Rannan‐Eliya et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2015Cited by: 5References: 38

    OBJECTIVE: To compare the quality of inpatient clinical care in public and private hospitals in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A retrospective, cross-sectional comparison was done of inpatient quality, in a sample of 11 public and 10 private hospitals in three of 25 districts. Data were collected for 55 quality indicators from medical records of 2523 public and 1815 private inpatient admissions. These covered treatment of asthma, acute myocardial infarction…

  • The quality of outpatient primary care in public and private sectors in Sri Lanka—how well do patient perceptions match reality and what are the implications

    Open AccessRavindra P Rannan-Eliya, Ravindra P Rannan‐Eliya et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2015Cited by: 3References: 19

    OBJECTIVE: To compare the quality of clinical care and patient satisfaction in public and private outpatient primary care services in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A prospective, cross-sectional comparison was done by direct observation of patient encounters and exit interviews of outpatients in 10 public hospital general outpatient clinics and 66 private practitioner clinics in three districts of Sri Lanka. A total of 1027 public sector patients and 944 p…

  • Who pays for health care in Asia?

    Open AccessOwen O''Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Economics2008

  • Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia

    Open AccessEddy Van Doorslaer, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEHealth Economics2007

    Out‐of‐pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments by those absorbing a large fraction of household res…

  • The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare

    Owen O''Donnell, Owen O'Donnell et al.ARTICLEThe World Bank Economic Review2007

    The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich in most developing countries. That distribution is avoidable, but a propoor incidence is easier to realize at higher national incomes. The experiences …

  • Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia

    Open AccessEddy Van Doorslaer, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2006