Akshar Saxena
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3594595 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Akshar Saxena |
| NOMBRES | Akshar |
| APELLIDO | Saxena |
| FIRMA | SAXENA A |
| AFILIACIONES | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8518-0466 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Scaling Up Perinatal Care
Utilization of perinatal care remains limited in many settings, exposing pregnant women and newborns to excessive mortality risks. This study quantifies the potential mortality impact of scaling up perinatal care in the five low- and middle-income countries with the highest current infant mortality burden. The study analyses 237,358 birth records from nationally representative observational data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Et…
Considerations for modelling a broad food tax in the Philippines and other low-income and middle-income countries
Fiscal policies to improve diet are a promising strategy to address the increasing burden of non-communicable disease, the leading cause of death globally. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are the most implemented type of fiscal policy to improve diet. Yet taxes on food, if appropriately structured and applied across the food supply, may support a larger population-level shift towards a healthier diet. Designing these policies and guiding them thro…
Diarrheal disease, sanitation, and culture in India
Syndemic thinking in large-scale studies
The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission
Distributional health and financial benefits of increased tobacco taxes in Colombia
The tobacco tax increase passed by Colombia has substantial implications for the country's population health and financial well-being, with large benefits likely to accrue to the two poorest quintiles of the population
Transforming Singapore's healthcare delivery system
The vision for transforming healthcare delivery in Singapore is to develop integrated Regional Health Services (RHS) to provide healthcare from prevention to palliation. Under the RHS concept, each region would be anchored by an acute-care hospital working in close partnership with other healthcare providers in the region, e.g. general physicians (GPs), polyclinics, community hospitals (CHs), nursing homes (NHs) and home care providers. Formalize…
Transforming Singapore's healthcare delivery system
The vision for transforming healthcare delivery in Singapore is to develop integrated Regional Health Services (RHS) to provide healthcare from prevention to palliation. Under the RHS concept, each region would be anchored by an acute-care hospital working in close partnership with other healthcare providers in the region, e.g. general physicians (GPs), polyclinics, community hospitals (CHs), nursing homes (NHs) and home care providers. Formalize…
Distributional health and financial benefits of increased tobacco taxes in Colombia
The tobacco tax increase passed by Colombia has substantial implications for the country's population health and financial well-being, with large benefits likely to accrue to the two poorest quintiles of the population
The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission
Syndemic thinking in large-scale studies
Considerations for modelling a broad food tax in the Philippines and other low-income and middle-income countries
Fiscal policies to improve diet are a promising strategy to address the increasing burden of non-communicable disease, the leading cause of death globally. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are the most implemented type of fiscal policy to improve diet. Yet taxes on food, if appropriately structured and applied across the food supply, may support a larger population-level shift towards a healthier diet. Designing these policies and guiding them thro…
Diarrheal disease, sanitation, and culture in India
Scaling Up Perinatal Care
Utilization of perinatal care remains limited in many settings, exposing pregnant women and newborns to excessive mortality risks. This study quantifies the potential mortality impact of scaling up perinatal care in the five low- and middle-income countries with the highest current infant mortality burden. The study analyses 237,358 birth records from nationally representative observational data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Et…
Economics (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Environmental health (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (3 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Developing country (2 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (2 obras)