Stéphane Verguet

Datos Biográficos

ID1740318
NOMBREStéphane Verguet
NOMBRESStéphane
APELLIDOVerguet
FIRMAVERGUET S
AFILIACIONESHarvard Global Health Institute
ORCID0000-0003-4128-0849
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS45
TOTAL DE CITAS6
TOTAL COMO AUTOR45
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Optimizing health, financial risk protection, and equity in health benefits package design toward universal health coverage

    Open AccessBoshen Jiao, Sophia Houhamdi et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Global Disparities in Premature Mortality

    Open AccessØ Karlsson, D T Jamison et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    In this cross-sectional study, disparities in PPD were likely to reflect major inequality in access to health-enhancing technologies and living standards, as well as context-specific obstacles. Technological and medical advancements leading to universal health benefits need to be rapidly and fairly disseminated

  • Estimating immunization coverage at the district level

    Open AccessLatera Tesfaye, Tom Forzy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Ethiopia has made significant progress in the last two decades in improving the availability and coverage of essential maternal and child health services including childhood immunizations. As Ethiopia keeps momentum towards achieving national immunization goals, methods must be developed to analyze routinely collected health facility data and generate localized coverage estimates. This study leverages the District Health Information Software (DHI…

  • Extended cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to improve uptake of diabetes services in South Africa

    Open AccessHeather L Fraser, Isabelle Feldhaus et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    The rising prevalence of diabetes in South Africa (SA), coupled with significant levels of unmet need for diagnosis and treatment, results in high rates of diabetes-associated complications. Income status is a determinant of utilization of diagnosis and treatment services, with transport costs and loss of wages being key barriers to care. A conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme, targeted to compensate for such costs, may improve service utili…

  • Investing in school systems

    Open AccessStéphane Verguet, Pratibha Gautam et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these policies frequently operate in silos, the education sphere can operate as a cross-sectoral link. Schools represent a unique locus, with globally hundreds of millions of children attending class every day. A high-profile policy example is school feeding, with over 400 milli…

  • Joint distribution of child mortality and wealth across 30 sub-Saharan African countries over 2000-2019

    Open AccessRyoko Sato, Sarah Bolongaita et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2023

    Background: While reductions in child mortality have been observed across sub-Saharan African countries in the last 30 years, narrowing the gaps in under-five mortality across socioeconomic groups also requires an understanding of the multiple associations between health and welfare and socioeconomic drivers. We examined the probability density distributions in under-five mortality within countries and joint pathways of under-five mortality and w…

  • Estimated travel time and staffing constraints to accessing the Ethiopian health care system

    Open AccessNathaniel Hendrix, Samson Warkaye et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2023

    Background: Despite large investments in the public health care system, disparities in health outcomes persist between lower- and upper-income individuals, as well as rural vs urban dwellers in Ethiopia. Evidence from Ethiopia and other low- and middle-income countries suggests that challenges in health care access may contribute to poverty in these settings. Methods: We employed a two-step floating catchment area to estimate variations in spatia…

  • Examining the computation of the underlying components of Dalys

    Open AccessStéphane Verguet, Averi ChakrabartiARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) capture the mortality and morbidity arising from a disease: they incorporate the years of life lost (YLLs) and the years of life lived with disability (YLD) due to a disease. The relative importance of YLLs and YLDs differs across diseases. The magnitudes of YLLs and YLDs depend on parameters such as the age of onset of disease, duration of disease, the case fatality ratio and disability weight. In this pape…

  • Air pollution exposure disparities across US population and income groups

    Open AccessAbdulrahman Jbaily, Xiaodan Zhou et al.ARTICLENature2022

  • Quantifying the global burden of mental disorders and their economic value

    Open AccessDaniel Arias, Shekhar Saxena et al.ARTICLEEClinicalMedicine2022

    Background: Epidemiological and economic estimates suggest that the global burden of mental disorders is considerable, both in its impacts on human health and losses to societal welfare. The availability of additional data and the emergence of new approaches present an opportunity to examine these estimates, which form a critical part in making the investment case for global mental health. Methods: This study reviews, develops, and incorporates n…

  • Economic evaluations of health system strengthening activities in low-income and middle-income country settings

    Open AccessNathaniel Hendrix, 安春 徳田 et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The number of included studies was small. Our findings suggest that most economic evaluations of HSS do not leverage methods like sensitivity analyses or inputs from literature review that would produce more generalisable (but potentially less precise) results. More research into how decision-makers would use economic evaluations to define the expansion path to strengthening health systems would allow for conceptualising impactful work on the eco…

  • Equity impact of minimum unit pricing of alcohol on household health and finances among rich and poor drinkers in South Africa

    Open AccessNaomi Gibbs, Charlie Angus et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: South Africa experiences significant levels of alcohol-related harm. Recent research suggests minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol would be an effective policy, but high levels of income inequality raise concerns about equity impacts. This paper quantifies the equity impact of MUP on household health and finances in rich and poor drinkers in South Africa. METHODS: We draw from extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA) methods an…

  • How are health workers paid and does it matter? Conceptualising the potential implications of digitising health worker payments

    Open AccessMolly Mcconnell, Mansha Mahajan et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Priority setting in early childhood development

    Open AccessStéphane Verguet, Sarah Bolongaita et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Early childhood development (ECD) sets the foundation for healthy and successful lives with important ramifications for education, labour market outcomes and other domains of well-being. Even though a large number of interventions that promote ECD have been implemented and evaluated globally, there is currently no standardised framework that allows a comparison of the relative cost-effectiveness of these interventions. METHODS: We fir…

  • Conceptualizing monetary benchmarks for health investments toward poverty reduction in low- and lower middle-income countries

    Open AccessAveri Chakrabarti, Stéphane Verguet et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Public spending can improve population well-being, for example, by averting or reducing poverty. We aim to conceptualize monetary benchmarks for health sector investments oriented towards poverty alleviation in low- and lower middle-income countries. These benchmarks are meant to indicate the approximate range of health sector costs incurred to avert a single case of poverty across countries. Such conceptualizations could help identify the health…

  • Modeling the relative risk of incidence and mortality of select vaccine-preventable diseases by wealth group and geographic region in Ethiopia

    Open AccessSarah Bolongaita, Dominick Villano et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Immunization is one of the most effective public health interventions, saving millions of lives every year. Ethiopia has seen gradual improvements in immunization coverage and access to child health care services; however, inequalities in child mortality across wealth quintiles and regions remain persistent. We model the relative distributional incidence and mortality of four vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) (rotavirus diarrhea, human papillom…

  • The potential distributional health and financial benefits of increased tobacco taxes in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAveri Chakrabarti, Solomon Tessema Memirie et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Ethiopia raised taxes on tobacco products in early 2020, increasing the overall price of the typical pack of cigarettes by about 67%. We quantify the potential impacts of Ethiopia's tobacco tax hike on various outcomes-life years, tax revenues, cigarette expenditures and catastrophic health expenditures (CHE). Using parameters like price elasticity of demand for cigarettes and smoking prevalence in Ethiopia from the existing literature and second…

  • Comparative health systems analysis of differences in the catastrophic health expenditure associated with non-communicable vs communicable diseases among adults in six countries

    Open AccessAnnie Haakenstad, Matthew Coates et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    The growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries may have implications for health system performance in the area of financial risk protection, as measured by catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We compare NCD CHE to the CHE cases caused by communicable diseases (CDs) across health systems to examine whether: (1) disease burden and CHE are linked, (2) NCD CHE disproportionately affects wealthier househo…

  • Using health management information system data

    Open AccessCatherine Arsenault, Bereket Yakob et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Health management information systems (HMIS) are a crucial source of timely health statistics and have the potential to improve reporting in low-income countries. However, concerns about data quality have hampered their widespread adoption in research and policy decisions. This article presents results from a data verification study undertaken to gain insights into the quality of HMIS data in Ethiopia. We also provide recommendations for working …

  • Health gains and financial protection from human papillomavirus vaccination in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAllison Portnoy, Steven Sweet et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    High out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenses for cervical cancer (CC) can lead to catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) and medical impoverishment in many low-resource settings. There are 32 million women at risk for CC in Ethiopia, where CC screening is extremely limited. An evaluation of the population health and financial risk protection benefits, and their distributional consequences across socioeconomic groups, from human papillomavirus (HPV)…

  • The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission

    Open AccessGene Bukhman, Ana Olga Mocumbi et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • The Broader Economic Value of School Feeding Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Open AccessStéphane Verguet, Paulina Limasalle et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    Introduction: Globally, there are 370 million children receiving school meals every day. Coverage is least in low-income countries, where the need is greatest and where program costs are viewed as high in comparison with the benefits to public health alone. Here we explore the policy implications of including the returns of school feeding to other sectors in an economic analysis. Methods: We develop an economic evaluation methodology to estimate …

  • Spatial–temporal trends in forced migrant mortality, 2014–2018

    Open AccessDanielle N Poole, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: The identification of spatial-temporal clusters of forced migrant mortality is urgently needed to inform preventative policies and humanitarian response. As a first step towards understanding the geography of forced migrant mortality, this study investigates spatial-temporal patterns in death at a global scale. METHODS: from 2014 to 2018. Kulldorff's spatial-temporal and seasonal scans were used to detect spatial-temporal and tempor…

  • Protecting essential health services in low-income and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings while responding to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessKarl Blanchet, Ala Alwan et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    In health outcomes terms, the poorest countries stand to lose the most from these disruptions. In this paper, we make the case for a rational approach to public sector health spending and decision making during and in the early recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on ethics and equity principles, it is crucial to ensure that patients not infected by COVID-19 continue to get access to healthcare and that the services they need continue t…

  • Is cycle network expansion cost-effective? A health economic evaluation of cycling in Oslo

    Open AccessAdmassu N Lamu, Abdulrahman Jbaily et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The results support the use of CIM as part of a public health program to improve physical activity and consequently avert morbidity and mortality. CIM is affordable and has a long-term effect on physical activity that in turn has a positive impact on health improvement