Benjamin Loevinsohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 6071751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Loevinsohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Loevinsohn |
| SIGNATURE | LOEVINSOHN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-7075-5723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Socio-economic determinants for reduced uptake of routine childhood vaccination in Afghanistan
BACKGROUND: Coverage of many routine childhood vaccinations in Afghanistan is low and declining. For instance, only 60% of eligible children received doses of the pentavalent vaccine in 2013-18, and this fell to 51% in 2022/23. OBJECTIVE: To help explain the underlying causes behind this trend, this study aims to identify socio-demographic factors relating to caregivers whose children are either entirely unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated.…
Aid effectiveness in rebuilding the Afghan health system
The Paris Declaration defined five components of aid effectiveness: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability. Afghanistan, which has received a high level of donor aid for health since 2002, has seen significant improvements in health indicators, expanded access to health services and an increased range of services. Do the impressive health outcomes in this fragile state mean that aid has been effectivel…
Buying results? Contracting for health service delivery in developing countries
Impact of Targeted Programs on Health Systems
The results of 2 large field studies on the impact of the polio eradication initiative on health systems and 3 supplementary reports were presented at a December 1999 meeting convened by the World Health Organization. All of these studies concluded that positive synergies exist between polio eradication and health systems but that these synergies have not been vigorously exploited. The eradication of polio has probably improved health systems wor…
Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Evaluate Targeting Strategies
Given the demonstrated efficacy of vitamin A supplements in reducing childhood mortality, health officials now have to decide whether it would be efficient to target the supplements to high risk children. Decisions about targeting are complex because they depend on a number of factors; the degree of clustering of preventable deaths, the cost of the intervention, the side-effects of the intervention, the cost of identifying the high risk group, an…
Improving primary health care through systematic supervision
Most primary health care services in developing countries are delivered by staff working in peripheral facilities where supervision is problematic. This study examined whether systematic supervision using an objective set of indicators could improve health worker performance. A checklist was developed by the Philippine Department of Health which assigned a score from 0 to 3 on each of 20 indicators which were clearly defined. The checklist was im…
Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Evaluate Targeting Strategies
Given the demonstrated efficacy of vitamin A supplements in reducing childhood mortality, health officials now have to decide whether it would be efficient to target the supplements to high risk children. Decisions about targeting are complex because they depend on a number of factors; the degree of clustering of preventable deaths, the cost of the intervention, the side-effects of the intervention, the cost of identifying the high risk group, an…
Improving primary health care through systematic supervision
Most primary health care services in developing countries are delivered by staff working in peripheral facilities where supervision is problematic. This study examined whether systematic supervision using an objective set of indicators could improve health worker performance. A checklist was developed by the Philippine Department of Health which assigned a score from 0 to 3 on each of 20 indicators which were clearly defined. The checklist was im…
Impact of Targeted Programs on Health Systems
The results of 2 large field studies on the impact of the polio eradication initiative on health systems and 3 supplementary reports were presented at a December 1999 meeting convened by the World Health Organization. All of these studies concluded that positive synergies exist between polio eradication and health systems but that these synergies have not been vigorously exploited. The eradication of polio has probably improved health systems wor…
Improving primary health care through systematic supervision
Most primary health care services in developing countries are delivered by staff working in peripheral facilities where supervision is problematic. This study examined whether systematic supervision using an objective set of indicators could improve health worker performance. A checklist was developed by the Philippine Department of Health which assigned a score from 0 to 3 on each of 20 indicators which were clearly defined. The checklist was im…
Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Evaluate Targeting Strategies
Given the demonstrated efficacy of vitamin A supplements in reducing childhood mortality, health officials now have to decide whether it would be efficient to target the supplements to high risk children. Decisions about targeting are complex because they depend on a number of factors; the degree of clustering of preventable deaths, the cost of the intervention, the side-effects of the intervention, the cost of identifying the high risk group, an…
Impact of Targeted Programs on Health Systems
The results of 2 large field studies on the impact of the polio eradication initiative on health systems and 3 supplementary reports were presented at a December 1999 meeting convened by the World Health Organization. All of these studies concluded that positive synergies exist between polio eradication and health systems but that these synergies have not been vigorously exploited. The eradication of polio has probably improved health systems wor…
Buying results? Contracting for health service delivery in developing countries
Aid effectiveness in rebuilding the Afghan health system
The Paris Declaration defined five components of aid effectiveness: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability. Afghanistan, which has received a high level of donor aid for health since 2002, has seen significant improvements in health indicators, expanded access to health services and an increased range of services. Do the impressive health outcomes in this fragile state mean that aid has been effectivel…
Socio-economic determinants for reduced uptake of routine childhood vaccination in Afghanistan
BACKGROUND: Coverage of many routine childhood vaccinations in Afghanistan is low and declining. For instance, only 60% of eligible children received doses of the pentavalent vaccine in 2013-18, and this fell to 51% in 2022/23. OBJECTIVE: To help explain the underlying causes behind this trend, this study aims to identify socio-demographic factors relating to caregivers whose children are either entirely unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated.…
Medicine (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Developing country (3 works) · Service delivery framework (3 works) · Afghan (2 works)