M Kent Ranson

Datos Biográficos

ID1445595
NOMBREM Kent Ranson
NOMBRESM Kent
APELLIDORanson
FIRMARANSON M K
AFILIACIONESUniversity of London
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS52
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
ÍNDICE H4

  • Explorations on people centredness in health systems

    Open AccessKay Sheikh, M Kent Ranson et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2014Citada por: 10Referencias: 4

    Health systems should ultimately seek to serve people and society. They must aim to bring value in people’s lives not only by caring for them when sick or giving support to prevent or limit illness and its effects, but also, more broadly, by offering the promise of economic security to all for times of great vulnerability. Health systems are also human systems. At their heart is a personal encounter, the interaction between the patient and the he…

  • Strategies for coping with the costs of inpatient care

    Open AccessM Kent Ranson, Rajeev Jayaswal et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012Citada por: 2Referencias: 8

    BACKGROUND: In India, coping mechanisms for inpatient care costs have been explored in rural areas, but seldom among urbanites. This study aims to explore and compare mechanisms employed by the urban and rural poor for coping with inpatient expenditures, in order to help identify formal mechanisms and policies to provide improved social protection for health care. METHODS: A three-step methodology was used: (1) six focus-group discussions; (2) 80…

  • Eliciting policymakers' and stakeholders' opinions to help shape health system research priorities in the Middle East and North Africa region

    Open AccessF El-Jardali, J Makhoul et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2010Citada por: 1Referencias: 13

    Evidence-informed decisions can strengthen health systems. Literature suggests that engaging policymakers and other stakeholders in research priority-setting exercises increases the likelihood of the utilization of research evidence by policymakers. To our knowledge, there has been no previous priority-setting exercise in health policy and systems research in countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper presents the res…

  • Promoting health equity in conflict-affected fragile states

    Open AccessOlga Bornemisza, M Kent Ranson et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010Citada por: 13Referencias: 36

  • Protecting the Poor? The Distributional Impact of a Bundled Insurance Scheme

    Open AccessTara Sinha, M Kent Ranson et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2007Citada por: 3Referencias: 2

  • Barriers to accessing benefits in a community-based insurance scheme

    Open AccessTara Sinha, M Kent Ranson et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2006Citada por: 8Referencias: 8

    This paper seeks to examine barriers faced by members of a community-based insurance (CBI) scheme, which is targeted at poor women and their families, in accessing scheme benefits. CBI schemes have been developed and promoted as mechanisms to offer protection to poor families from the risks of ill-health, death and loss of assets. However, having voluntarily enrolled in a CBI scheme, poor households may find it difficult or impossible to access s…

  • CRTs — Cluster Randomized Trials or “Courting Real Troubles”

    Open AccessM Kent Ranson, Tara Sinha et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2006Citada por: 2Referencias: 9

  • Making health insurance work for the poor

    Open AccessM Kent Ranson, Tara Sinha et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Citada por: 11Referencias: 3

  • India

    M Kent Ranson, Palak Joshi et al.BOOK2004

    The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union of informal women workers, was founded in 1972 by Ela Bhatt in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, India, and is headquartered there. It has more than 469,000 members in 9 of the state’s 19 districts.1 SEWA “is an organization of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labor or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welf…

  • Quality of Hysterectomy Care in Rural Gujarat

    M Kent Ranson, K R JohnARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2002Citada por: 2Referencias: 5

    Community-based health insurance (CBHI) may be a mechanism for improving the quality of health care available to people outside the formal sector in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to identify problems associated with the quality of hysterectomy care accessed by members of SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association), an Indian CBHI scheme, and discuss mechanisms that would optimize quality of care. Data on hysterectomy care were c…

  • Quality of hysterectomy care in rural Gujarat

    Open AccessM Kent RansonARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2001

    Community-based health insurance (CBHI) may be a mechanism for improving the quality of health care available to people outside the formal sector in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is: (1) to identify problems associated with the quality of hysterectomy care accessed by members of SEWA, an Indian CBHI scheme; and (2) to discuss mechanisms that might be put in place by SEWA, and CBHI schemes more generally, to optimize quality of h…