Melisa Martínez Álvarez

Biographic Data

ID6331716
NAMEMelisa Martínez Álvarez
GIVEN NAMESMelisa Martínez
FAMILY NAMEÁlvarez
SIGNATUREALVAREZ M M
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15–17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK,
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Influence of public external debt on government health expenditure

    Open AccessFrederik Federspiel, Josephine Borghi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Public external debt burdens of low- and middle-income countries have grown substantially over the past decade linked to increased borrowing. Our empirical understanding of how external official loans and their ensuing debt burden may impact government health spending at the individual country level is limited. We aimed to better understand these relationships through a case study of Senegal. We conducted a mixed-methods case study using descript…

  • Development partner influence on domestic health financing contributions in Senegal

    Open AccessFrederik Federspiel, Josephine Borghi et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    Sustainable and equitably contributed domestic health financing is essential for improving health and making progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in low- and middle-income countries. In this study, we explore the pathways through which development partners influence the combination of domestic health financing sources in Senegal. We performed a qualitative case study that comprised 32 key stakeholder interviews and a purposive documen…

  • Donor funding for family planning

    Open AccessChristopher Grollman, Francesca L Cavallaro et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018Cited by: 2References: 27

    The International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 set targets for donor funding to support family planning programmes, and recent initiatives such as FP2020 have renewed focus on the need for adequate funding to rights-based family planning. Disbursements supporting family planning disaggregated by donor, recipient country and year are not available for recent years. We estimate international donor funding for family planning in …

  • How is Telemedicine perceived? A qualitative study of perspectives from the UK and India

    Open AccessMelisa Martinez-Alvarez, Melisa Martínez Álvarez et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2011

    BACKGROUND: Improvements in communication and information technologies have allowed for the globalisation of health services, especially the provision of health services from other countries, such as the use of telemedicine. This has led countries to evaluate their position on whether and to what extent they should open their health systems to trade. This often takes place from the context of multi-lateral trade agreements (under the auspices of …

  • The potential for bi-lateral agreements in medical tourism

    Open AccessMelisa Martinez-Alvarez, Melisa Martínez Álvarez et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2011

    BACKGROUND: Globalisation has prompted countries to evaluate their position on trade in health services. However, this is often done from a multi-lateral, rather than a regional or bi-lateral perspective. In a previous review, we concluded that most of the issues raised could be better addressed from a bi-lateral relationship. We report here the results of a qualitative exercise to assess stakeholders' perceptions on the prospects for such a bi-l…