Divya Parmar

Biographic Data

ID4567821
NAMEDivya Parmar
GIVEN NAMESDivya
FAMILY NAMEParmar
SIGNATUREPARMAR D
AFFILIATIONSKing's Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, King's College London School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, London, UK
ORCID0000-0001-7604-4630
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS24
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Bridging the gap between health insurance eligibility and uptake

    Open AccessS Srivastava, Tads Ciecierski-Holmes et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Publicly-funded health insurance schemes, wherein governments subsidize insurance contributions for disadvantaged groups, are a key strategy under universal health coverage. India’s Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) uses an entitlement-based approach whereby approximately 700 million beneficiaries are automatically eligible for scheme benefits, subject to a simplified identity verification procedure instead of enrolment. This study invest…

  • AI’s patriarchal grammar

    Open AccessDivya Parmar, S DesouzaARTICLEAsian Journal of Women s Studies2026

    This article argues that AI language models can produce what we term “patriarchal grammar:” a recurring distortion of feminist legal scholarship through the euphemization of sexual violence, the erasure of structural feminist critique, and the naturalization of patriarchal assumptions as neutral facts. These distortions pose a serious epistemic risk to feminist legal analysis, particularly in postcolonial Asian contexts where English mediates leg…

  • What safety can we talk about when all we see is difficulty? The impact of geographic and cultural determinants of unintentional injury in rural and mountainous Mugu, Nepal

    Open AccessKatherine Weatherburn, Dhruv Parmar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Unintentional injuries are a significant health concern in rural Nepal, where geographic isolation and limited healthcare infrastructure exacerbate their impact. In the remote district of Mugu, primary caregivers of children navigate complex physical and social landscapes daily. This study explores how primary caregivers perceive the determinants of injury. By examining the interplay of environmental, social, and infrastructural det…

  • Awareness of India’s national health insurance scheme (PM-JAY)

    Open AccessDiletta Parisi, S Srivastava et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    The literature suggests that a first barrier towards accessing benefits of health insurance in low- and middle-income countries is lack of awareness of one’s benefits. Yet, across settings and emerging schemes, limited scientific evidence is available on levels of awareness and their determinants. To fill this gap, we assessed socio-demographic and economic determinants of beneficiaries’ awareness of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY),…

  • The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hospital utilisation in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessStephen Sevalie, Daniel Youkee et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected health systems in many countries, but little is known about effects on health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the effects of COVID-19 on hospital utilisation in a sub-Saharan country, Sierra Leone. METHODS: Mixed-methods study using longitudinal nationwide hospital data (admissions, operations, deliveries and referrals) and qualitative interviews with healthcare workers…

  • Treatment of tuberculosis in complex emergencies in developing countries

    Open AccessGeraldine Munn-Mace, Dhruv Parmar et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018

    Almost 172 million people live in complex emergencies globally resulting from political and/or economic instability. The provision and continuity of health care in complex emergencies remain a significant challenge. Health agencies are often hesitant to implement tuberculosis programmes in particular because its treatment requires a longer commitment than most acute diseases. However, not treating tuberculosis promptly increases mortality and unt…

  • Health outcomes during the 2008 financial crisis in Europe

    Open AccessDivya Parmar, Charitini Stavropoulou et al.ARTICLEBMJ2016

  • Disrespectful intrapartum care during facility-based delivery in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessSusan Bradley, Christine Mccourt et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016

  • The individual level cost of pregnancy termination in Zambia

    Open AccessTiziana Leone, Ernestina Coast et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Cited by: 9References: 40

    Zambia has one of the most liberal abortion laws in sub-Saharan Africa. However, rates of unsafe abortion remain high with negative health and economic consequences. Little is known about the economic burden on women of abortion care-seeking in low income countries. The majority of studies focus on direct costs (e.g. hospital fees). This article estimates the individual-level economic burden of safe and unsafe abortion care-seeking in Zambia, inc…

  • Enrolment of older people in social health protection programs in West Africa - Does social exclusion play a part

    Open AccessDhruv Parmar, Divya Parmar et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2014Cited by: 15References: 15

    Although the population of older people in Africa is increasing, and older people are becoming increasingly vulnerable due to urbanisation, breakdown of family structures and rising healthcare costs, most African countries have no social health protection for older people. Two exceptions include Senegal's Plan Sesame, a user fees exemption for older people and Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) where older people are exempt from payi…