Douglas Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB D |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations Development Programme |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8664-1348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Accelerating achievement for Africa’s adolescents
By 2050, one in four people in the world will live in Africa. The region’s adolescents are our present and future but need effective services to support their holistic health and wellbeing, advance their education, allow them to flourish, and protect them from adversity. This paper reviews evidence for a new concept of ‘development accelerators’: interventions that can help achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously. Across 26 …
The reported impact of non-communicable disease investment cases in 13 countries
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading health and development challenge worldwide. Since 2015, WHO and the United Nations Development Programme have provided support to governments to develop national NCD investment cases to describe the socioeconomic dimensions of NCDs. To assess the impact of the investment cases, semistructured interviews and a structured process for gathering written feedback were conducted between July and October 20…
Advancing progress on tobacco control in low-income and middle-income countries through economic analysis
Tobacco control must be seen as more than a health concern. Tobacco control leads to economic benefits and contributes to sustainable development. National investment cases can support country ownership and leadership to advance tobacco control
Equity implications of tobacco taxation
Our results confirm that health benefits from increases in price through taxation are pro-poor. Even in countries where smoking prevalence is higher among wealthier groups, increasing prices can still be pro-poor due to variable responsiveness to higher prices. The costs associated with higher smoking prevalence among the poor, together with often limited access to healthcare services and displaced spending on basic needs, result in health inequa…
Interpreting results, impacts and implications from WHO FCTC tobacco control investment cases in 21 low-income and middle-income countries
WHO FCTC tobacco control measures would provide a positive return on investment in every country analysed
The health sector and fiscal policies of fossil fuels
Financing intersectoral action for health
Addressing NCDs
Despite the mounting evidence that they impede social and economic development, increase inequalities, and perpetuate poverty, Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) remain largely absent from the agendas of major development assistance initiatives. In addition, fundamental changes are developing in patterns of development assistance for health, and more of the burden for fighting NCDs is being placed on domestic budgets, thus increasing pressure on the…
Responding to Zika; the imperative to ensure rights and protection
The Zika virus, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has spread extensively throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It is the first mosquito-borne disease known to be sexually transmitted and to cause neurological damage to foetuses and neonates, with the developmental sequelae now known as ‘congenital Zika syndrome’. ‘A Socio-economic Impact Assessment of the Zika Virus in Latin America and the Caribbean’ highlights the disproportionat…
Universal health coverage
In this article, we highlight key considerations for better addressing sexual and reproductive health and rights issues within universal health coverage (UHC), particularly in the context of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. We look at UHC as a health, development and health care financing issue, and its history. We discuss its limitations as currently understood from a human rights perspective, and show why structural barriers to hea…
A review of monitoring and evaluation in support of orphans and vulnerable children in East and Southern Africa
Monitoring and evaluating national and subnational responses in support of children orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS (OVC) present a number of challenges. Most OVC programmes require multiple interventions across different sectors. In most countries, targeting parameters for identifying ‘vulnerable’ children are fluid and difficult to define or measure concretely. Along with weak national monitoring systems and a lack of development partner or…
Who are the most vulnerable? Disaggregating orphan categories and identifying child outcome status in Tanzania
In 2005, UNICEF Tanzania commissioned the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Mwanza to analyse data collected regarding the circumstances of orphan and non-orphan children and their care providers in Kisesa ward in Magu district in north Tanzania. The large sample (n = 1,960) of children aged 6–19 years has made an analysis of disaggregated data possible. This article builds on the analysis from the report Circumstances of Orphan an…
Supporting and sustaining national responses to children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and Aids
The growing number of children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa presents an enormous socioeconomic and public policy challenge. Despite international commitments to increase resource allocation and scale up services and support for AIDS-affected children, families and communities, the national- and sub-national-level state responses have been inadequate. The rapid assessment, analysis and action planning (RAAAP) …
The potential role of food aid in mitigating the impacts of HIV/Aids
This paper identifies how food aid can be conceptualized in a development framework and examines potential mechanisms for the most effective targeting and distribution of such aid. The framework presented is based on the experiences in Zambia but the implications are relevant to any country or institution involved in alleviating the impacts of AIDS in developing country. Zambia is one of the worlds most HIV/AIDS-affected countries. With a populat…
Book note
Postgraduate Fieldwork in Developing Areas: A Rough Guide. Edited by E. Robson and K. Willis. Oxford: Developing Areas Research Group of the Institute of British Geographers, 1994. Pp.vi + 162. NP. ISBN 0 9466 8905 9
Supporting and sustaining national responses to children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and Aids
The growing number of children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa presents an enormous socioeconomic and public policy challenge. Despite international commitments to increase resource allocation and scale up services and support for AIDS-affected children, families and communities, the national- and sub-national-level state responses have been inadequate. The rapid assessment, analysis and action planning (RAAAP) …
Book note
Postgraduate Fieldwork in Developing Areas: A Rough Guide. Edited by E. Robson and K. Willis. Oxford: Developing Areas Research Group of the Institute of British Geographers, 1994. Pp.vi + 162. NP. ISBN 0 9466 8905 9
The potential role of food aid in mitigating the impacts of HIV/Aids
This paper identifies how food aid can be conceptualized in a development framework and examines potential mechanisms for the most effective targeting and distribution of such aid. The framework presented is based on the experiences in Zambia but the implications are relevant to any country or institution involved in alleviating the impacts of AIDS in developing country. Zambia is one of the worlds most HIV/AIDS-affected countries. With a populat…
Supporting and sustaining national responses to children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and Aids
The growing number of children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa presents an enormous socioeconomic and public policy challenge. Despite international commitments to increase resource allocation and scale up services and support for AIDS-affected children, families and communities, the national- and sub-national-level state responses have been inadequate. The rapid assessment, analysis and action planning (RAAAP) …
A review of monitoring and evaluation in support of orphans and vulnerable children in East and Southern Africa
Monitoring and evaluating national and subnational responses in support of children orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS (OVC) present a number of challenges. Most OVC programmes require multiple interventions across different sectors. In most countries, targeting parameters for identifying ‘vulnerable’ children are fluid and difficult to define or measure concretely. Along with weak national monitoring systems and a lack of development partner or…
Who are the most vulnerable? Disaggregating orphan categories and identifying child outcome status in Tanzania
In 2005, UNICEF Tanzania commissioned the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Mwanza to analyse data collected regarding the circumstances of orphan and non-orphan children and their care providers in Kisesa ward in Magu district in north Tanzania. The large sample (n = 1,960) of children aged 6–19 years has made an analysis of disaggregated data possible. This article builds on the analysis from the report Circumstances of Orphan an…
Universal health coverage
In this article, we highlight key considerations for better addressing sexual and reproductive health and rights issues within universal health coverage (UHC), particularly in the context of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. We look at UHC as a health, development and health care financing issue, and its history. We discuss its limitations as currently understood from a human rights perspective, and show why structural barriers to hea…
Addressing NCDs
Despite the mounting evidence that they impede social and economic development, increase inequalities, and perpetuate poverty, Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) remain largely absent from the agendas of major development assistance initiatives. In addition, fundamental changes are developing in patterns of development assistance for health, and more of the burden for fighting NCDs is being placed on domestic budgets, thus increasing pressure on the…
Responding to Zika; the imperative to ensure rights and protection
The Zika virus, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has spread extensively throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It is the first mosquito-borne disease known to be sexually transmitted and to cause neurological damage to foetuses and neonates, with the developmental sequelae now known as ‘congenital Zika syndrome’. ‘A Socio-economic Impact Assessment of the Zika Virus in Latin America and the Caribbean’ highlights the disproportionat…
Financing intersectoral action for health
The health sector and fiscal policies of fossil fuels
The reported impact of non-communicable disease investment cases in 13 countries
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading health and development challenge worldwide. Since 2015, WHO and the United Nations Development Programme have provided support to governments to develop national NCD investment cases to describe the socioeconomic dimensions of NCDs. To assess the impact of the investment cases, semistructured interviews and a structured process for gathering written feedback were conducted between July and October 20…
Advancing progress on tobacco control in low-income and middle-income countries through economic analysis
Tobacco control must be seen as more than a health concern. Tobacco control leads to economic benefits and contributes to sustainable development. National investment cases can support country ownership and leadership to advance tobacco control
Equity implications of tobacco taxation
Our results confirm that health benefits from increases in price through taxation are pro-poor. Even in countries where smoking prevalence is higher among wealthier groups, increasing prices can still be pro-poor due to variable responsiveness to higher prices. The costs associated with higher smoking prevalence among the poor, together with often limited access to healthcare services and displaced spending on basic needs, result in health inequa…
Interpreting results, impacts and implications from WHO FCTC tobacco control investment cases in 21 low-income and middle-income countries
WHO FCTC tobacco control measures would provide a positive return on investment in every country analysed
Accelerating achievement for Africa’s adolescents
By 2050, one in four people in the world will live in Africa. The region’s adolescents are our present and future but need effective services to support their holistic health and wellbeing, advance their education, allow them to flourish, and protect them from adversity. This paper reviews evidence for a new concept of ‘development accelerators’: interventions that can help achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously. Across 26 …
Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (4 works)