Alec Morton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3581574 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alec Morton |
| PRENOMES | Alec |
| SOBRENOME | Morton |
| ASSINATURA | MORTON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3803-8517 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Beyond financial access
Out-of-pocket and catastrophic healthcare expenditure in Bangladesh
Despite Bangladesh’s heavy reliance on out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare financing and the absence of disability-specific financial protection provisions, no nationally representative study has compared OOP expenditure and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) between households with and without disabled members in Bangladesh. The study aims to estimate OOP healthcare expenditure, incidence of CHE, and to identify socioeconomic factors associated wi…
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care
Health and social care systems face immense pressures that emerge from complex interdependencies between system components, transcending conventional explanations of demand-capacity mismatches. Although multiple theoretic perspectives (e.g., "complex adaptive systems", "sociotechnical systems") have been advocated as ways to capture and characterise the nature of that complexity, consolidating it into actionable insights for coordinated stakehold…
Conflicting economic policies and mental health
This study evaluates the mental health effects of two simultaneously implemented but conflicting policies in the UK: the National Living Wage and the benefits freeze policy. We employed the Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021) DID estimator to evaluate the heterogeneous policy effects, and we found that NLW leads to positive improvements in mental health. Also, we find the negative impact of the benefits freeze policy constricts the NLW effects. Our res…
Economic Analysis of Border Control Policies during Covid-19 Pandemic
With countries progressing towards high COVID-19 vaccination rates, strategies for border reopening are required. This study focuses on Thailand and Singapore, two countries that share significant tourism visitation, to illustrate a framework for optimizing COVID-19 testing and quarantine policies for bilateral travel with a focus on economic recovery. The timeframe is the month of October 2021, when Thailand and Singapore were preparing to reope…
Inequalities and mental health during the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK
The pandemic is taking a long-term toll on the nations' mental health which will continue to have impacts for years to come. It is therefore crucial to learn the vital lessons learned from this pandemic. Specific as well as whole-government policies need to respond to this, address inequalities and the different needs across the life-course and across society, and take a holistic approach to mental health improvement across the UK
Examining holistically the experiences of mentors in school‐based programs
The article presents a Logic Analysis of the Scottish MCR (“Motivation, Commitment and Resilience”) Pathways school‐based mentoring scheme. MCR Pathways provides vulnerable secondary school students with one‐to‐one support, helping them realize their full potential through education. The perceptions of 12 mentors were explored through interviews, thematically analyzed and mapped to derive the program's Theory of Change as regards the volunteers t…
The mental health experiences of ethnic minorities in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic
Background Worldwide, the Coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on people's health, lives, and livelihoods. However, this impact has not been felt equally across various population groups. People from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK have been more adversely affected by the pandemic, especially in terms of their physical health. Their mental health, on the other hand, has received less attention. This study aimed to explore the mental …
Income trajectories and self-rated health status in the UK
In line with the wide recognition of the connection between socioeconomic status and health outcomes, attention in the recent literature is extending the static perspective to the dynamic implications of income on health. This study contributes to the growing literature on the income-health nexus by evaluating income dynamics on various self-rated health measures in the UK. We explore the impact of different indicators of income experiences on se…
Disease-specific distress healthcare financing and catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization in Bangladesh
The study findings strongly suggest the need for national-level social health security schemes with a particular focus on low-income households, since we identified greater inequalities between low- and high-income households in UHC financial hardship indicators. Regulating the private sector and implementing subsidized healthcare programmes for diseases with high treatment costs, such as cancer, heart disease, liver disease, and kidney disease a…
Drivers and distribution of the household-level double burden of malnutrition in Bangladesh
Objective: The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) has become an emerging public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aims to provide important evidence for the prevalence of different types of DBM at the national and subnational levels in Bangladesh. Design: The study utilised data from the latest Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2017–2018. Multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify th…
Optimal subscription models to pay for antibiotics
Covid-19 Vaccination in Lower-Middle Income Countries
The development of COVID-19 vaccines does not imply the end of the global pandemic as now countries have to purchase enough COVID-19 vaccine doses and work towards their successful rollout. Vaccination across the world has progressed slowly in all, but a few high-income countries (HICs) as governments learn how to vaccinate their entire populations amidst a pandemic. Most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been relying on the COVID-19 …
The economics of improving global infectious disease surveillance
With the global increase in population density, urbanisation, and global travel and trade, the threat of widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases has increased relentlessly, 1 as evidenced by recent examples of COVID-19 and Ebola. Further, although the most important causes of death shifted to non-communicable diseases, in some poorer parts of the world, communicable diseases remain the most important cause of death.2 Crucial in the prevention…
Health systems, population and patient challenges for achieving universal health coverage for hypertension in Ghana
Ghana has signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), ensuring that all individuals receive the health care they require without financial hardship. Achieving that goal is a difficult task in any setting. The challenges are further exacerbated by a changing disease landscape, as the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing and creating a dual burden along with infectious…
Fairer financing of vaccines in a world living with Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine and campaign-based vaccination, potentially increasing the future vaccine-preventable disease burden and threatening to overwhelm health systems.\n\n- Vaccine-preventable diseases are transboundary problems that require global cooperation to achieve the best outcomes.\n\n- Investments, predominantly by rich countries—in effect transfers to poor countries—are required as part of the financing solution. T…
Empowering and Engaging European building users for energy efficiency
Amidst the challenge of improving energy efficiency in the built environment, increasing attention is being put on how to engage and empower building users. Research shows that improving and widening user engagement, such as involving users in co-designing interventions, has potential to foster greater acceptance and impact. In this context, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a major role to play, through feedback tools, smartphon…
Clients’ Experience and Satisfaction of Utilizing Healthcare Services in a Community Based Health Insurance Program in Bangladesh
Background : Community-based health insurance is recognized as a promising tool for health system improvement for low-income people that improves the health status of enrolees and enhances productivity and labor supply. The experience and opinion of the clients who utilized health services through the insurance scheme are important for improving healthcare services, shaping health policies and providing feedback on the quality, availability, and …
Health care input constraints and cost effectiveness analysis decision rules
Results of cost effectiveness analyses (CEA) studies are most useful for decision makers if they face only one constraint: the health care budget. However, in practice, decision makers wishing to use the results of CEA studies may face multiple resource constraints relating to, for instance, constraints in health care inputs such as a shortage of skilled labour. The presence of multiple resource constraints influences the decision rules of CEA an…
Developing robust composite measures of healthcare quality - Ranking intervals and dominance relations for Scottish Health Boards
Health care input constraints and cost effectiveness analysis decision rules
Results of cost effectiveness analyses (CEA) studies are most useful for decision makers if they face only one constraint: the health care budget. However, in practice, decision makers wishing to use the results of CEA studies may face multiple resource constraints relating to, for instance, constraints in health care inputs such as a shortage of skilled labour. The presence of multiple resource constraints influences the decision rules of CEA an…
Developing robust composite measures of healthcare quality - Ranking intervals and dominance relations for Scottish Health Boards
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care
Health and social care systems face immense pressures that emerge from complex interdependencies between system components, transcending conventional explanations of demand-capacity mismatches. Although multiple theoretic perspectives (e.g., "complex adaptive systems", "sociotechnical systems") have been advocated as ways to capture and characterise the nature of that complexity, consolidating it into actionable insights for coordinated stakehold…
Examining holistically the experiences of mentors in school‐based programs
The article presents a Logic Analysis of the Scottish MCR (“Motivation, Commitment and Resilience”) Pathways school‐based mentoring scheme. MCR Pathways provides vulnerable secondary school students with one‐to‐one support, helping them realize their full potential through education. The perceptions of 12 mentors were explored through interviews, thematically analyzed and mapped to derive the program's Theory of Change as regards the volunteers t…
Developing robust composite measures of healthcare quality - Ranking intervals and dominance relations for Scottish Health Boards
Clients’ Experience and Satisfaction of Utilizing Healthcare Services in a Community Based Health Insurance Program in Bangladesh
Background : Community-based health insurance is recognized as a promising tool for health system improvement for low-income people that improves the health status of enrolees and enhances productivity and labor supply. The experience and opinion of the clients who utilized health services through the insurance scheme are important for improving healthcare services, shaping health policies and providing feedback on the quality, availability, and …
Health care input constraints and cost effectiveness analysis decision rules
Results of cost effectiveness analyses (CEA) studies are most useful for decision makers if they face only one constraint: the health care budget. However, in practice, decision makers wishing to use the results of CEA studies may face multiple resource constraints relating to, for instance, constraints in health care inputs such as a shortage of skilled labour. The presence of multiple resource constraints influences the decision rules of CEA an…
Fairer financing of vaccines in a world living with Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine and campaign-based vaccination, potentially increasing the future vaccine-preventable disease burden and threatening to overwhelm health systems.\n\n- Vaccine-preventable diseases are transboundary problems that require global cooperation to achieve the best outcomes.\n\n- Investments, predominantly by rich countries—in effect transfers to poor countries—are required as part of the financing solution. T…
Empowering and Engaging European building users for energy efficiency
Amidst the challenge of improving energy efficiency in the built environment, increasing attention is being put on how to engage and empower building users. Research shows that improving and widening user engagement, such as involving users in co-designing interventions, has potential to foster greater acceptance and impact. In this context, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a major role to play, through feedback tools, smartphon…
Covid-19 Vaccination in Lower-Middle Income Countries
The development of COVID-19 vaccines does not imply the end of the global pandemic as now countries have to purchase enough COVID-19 vaccine doses and work towards their successful rollout. Vaccination across the world has progressed slowly in all, but a few high-income countries (HICs) as governments learn how to vaccinate their entire populations amidst a pandemic. Most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been relying on the COVID-19 …
The economics of improving global infectious disease surveillance
With the global increase in population density, urbanisation, and global travel and trade, the threat of widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases has increased relentlessly, 1 as evidenced by recent examples of COVID-19 and Ebola. Further, although the most important causes of death shifted to non-communicable diseases, in some poorer parts of the world, communicable diseases remain the most important cause of death.2 Crucial in the prevention…
Health systems, population and patient challenges for achieving universal health coverage for hypertension in Ghana
Ghana has signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), ensuring that all individuals receive the health care they require without financial hardship. Achieving that goal is a difficult task in any setting. The challenges are further exacerbated by a changing disease landscape, as the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing and creating a dual burden along with infectious…
The mental health experiences of ethnic minorities in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic
Background Worldwide, the Coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on people's health, lives, and livelihoods. However, this impact has not been felt equally across various population groups. People from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK have been more adversely affected by the pandemic, especially in terms of their physical health. Their mental health, on the other hand, has received less attention. This study aimed to explore the mental …
Income trajectories and self-rated health status in the UK
In line with the wide recognition of the connection between socioeconomic status and health outcomes, attention in the recent literature is extending the static perspective to the dynamic implications of income on health. This study contributes to the growing literature on the income-health nexus by evaluating income dynamics on various self-rated health measures in the UK. We explore the impact of different indicators of income experiences on se…
Disease-specific distress healthcare financing and catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization in Bangladesh
The study findings strongly suggest the need for national-level social health security schemes with a particular focus on low-income households, since we identified greater inequalities between low- and high-income households in UHC financial hardship indicators. Regulating the private sector and implementing subsidized healthcare programmes for diseases with high treatment costs, such as cancer, heart disease, liver disease, and kidney disease a…
Drivers and distribution of the household-level double burden of malnutrition in Bangladesh
Objective: The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) has become an emerging public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aims to provide important evidence for the prevalence of different types of DBM at the national and subnational levels in Bangladesh. Design: The study utilised data from the latest Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2017–2018. Multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify th…
Optimal subscription models to pay for antibiotics
Economic Analysis of Border Control Policies during Covid-19 Pandemic
With countries progressing towards high COVID-19 vaccination rates, strategies for border reopening are required. This study focuses on Thailand and Singapore, two countries that share significant tourism visitation, to illustrate a framework for optimizing COVID-19 testing and quarantine policies for bilateral travel with a focus on economic recovery. The timeframe is the month of October 2021, when Thailand and Singapore were preparing to reope…
Inequalities and mental health during the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK
The pandemic is taking a long-term toll on the nations' mental health which will continue to have impacts for years to come. It is therefore crucial to learn the vital lessons learned from this pandemic. Specific as well as whole-government policies need to respond to this, address inequalities and the different needs across the life-course and across society, and take a holistic approach to mental health improvement across the UK
Examining holistically the experiences of mentors in school‐based programs
The article presents a Logic Analysis of the Scottish MCR (“Motivation, Commitment and Resilience”) Pathways school‐based mentoring scheme. MCR Pathways provides vulnerable secondary school students with one‐to‐one support, helping them realize their full potential through education. The perceptions of 12 mentors were explored through interviews, thematically analyzed and mapped to derive the program's Theory of Change as regards the volunteers t…
Conflicting economic policies and mental health
This study evaluates the mental health effects of two simultaneously implemented but conflicting policies in the UK: the National Living Wage and the benefits freeze policy. We employed the Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021) DID estimator to evaluate the heterogeneous policy effects, and we found that NLW leads to positive improvements in mental health. Also, we find the negative impact of the benefits freeze policy constricts the NLW effects. Our res…
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care
Health and social care systems face immense pressures that emerge from complex interdependencies between system components, transcending conventional explanations of demand-capacity mismatches. Although multiple theoretic perspectives (e.g., "complex adaptive systems", "sociotechnical systems") have been advocated as ways to capture and characterise the nature of that complexity, consolidating it into actionable insights for coordinated stakehold…
Beyond financial access
Out-of-pocket and catastrophic healthcare expenditure in Bangladesh
Despite Bangladesh’s heavy reliance on out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare financing and the absence of disability-specific financial protection provisions, no nationally representative study has compared OOP expenditure and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) between households with and without disabled members in Bangladesh. The study aims to estimate OOP healthcare expenditure, incidence of CHE, and to identify socioeconomic factors associated wi…
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