Nilmini Wijemunige

Datos Biográficos

ID6331601
NOMBRENilmini Wijemunige
NOMBRESNilmini
APELLIDOWijemunige
FIRMAWIJEMUNIGE N
AFILIACIONESInstitute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka
ORCID0000-0002-2241-3194
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • 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

  • 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 Planning2019Referencias: 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…