L Kumaranayake
Biographic Data
| ID | 6333191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Kumaranayake |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumaranayake |
| SIGNATURE | KUMARANAYAKE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The motivations for participation in public–private partnerships for the provision of tuberculosis treatment in South Africa
There is increasing interest in public-private partnerships (PPPs) generally, and more specifically for the provision of tuberculosis (TB) treatment, yet little is known about the motivations for such partnerships and the nature of the incentives that are required to achieve a desirable outcome of the partnerships. Using the new institutional economics approach, this study examines the motivations for participation in existing and potential model…
Constructing socio-economic status indices
Theoretically, measures of household wealth can be reflected by income, consumption or expenditure information. However, the collection of accurate income and consumption data requires extensive resources for household surveys. Given the increasingly routine application of principal components analysis (PCA) using asset data in creating socio-economic status (SES) indices, we review how PCA-based indices are constructed, how they can be used, and…
How do countries regulate the health sector? Evidence from Tanzania and Zimbabwe
The health sectors in many low- and middle-income countries have been characterized in recent years by extensive private sector activity. This has been complemented by increasing public-private linkages, such as the contracting-out of selected services or facilities, development of new purchasing arrangements, franchising and the introduction of vouchers. Increasingly, however, experience with the private sector has indicated a number of problems…
Moderating discussions on the web
Many of us already use the world-wide web in the course of our work ‐ both to communicate with colleagues and to share and access information. A relatively new development is to use the web as an interactive forum for structured, moderated discussions, in which participants exchange views about a specific topic. We recently moderated a web-site discussion on ‘methods and models: cost-effectiveness analysis for HIV prevention’ for the Internationa…
The real and the nominal? Making inflationary adjustments to cost and other economic data
Given the scarcity of cost data for health interventions, there has been substantial use of a relatively small number of existing studies to underpin policy development formulation. Intervention-specific cost and cost-effectiveness data have been used to plan overall budgets, to assess the relative efficiency of different interventions and to consider the resource requirements for programme implementation at both the local and national levels. Co…
Constructing socio-economic status indices
Theoretically, measures of household wealth can be reflected by income, consumption or expenditure information. However, the collection of accurate income and consumption data requires extensive resources for household surveys. Given the increasingly routine application of principal components analysis (PCA) using asset data in creating socio-economic status (SES) indices, we review how PCA-based indices are constructed, how they can be used, and…
How do countries regulate the health sector? Evidence from Tanzania and Zimbabwe
The health sectors in many low- and middle-income countries have been characterized in recent years by extensive private sector activity. This has been complemented by increasing public-private linkages, such as the contracting-out of selected services or facilities, development of new purchasing arrangements, franchising and the introduction of vouchers. Increasingly, however, experience with the private sector has indicated a number of problems…
Moderating discussions on the web
Many of us already use the world-wide web in the course of our work ‐ both to communicate with colleagues and to share and access information. A relatively new development is to use the web as an interactive forum for structured, moderated discussions, in which participants exchange views about a specific topic. We recently moderated a web-site discussion on ‘methods and models: cost-effectiveness analysis for HIV prevention’ for the Internationa…
The real and the nominal? Making inflationary adjustments to cost and other economic data
Given the scarcity of cost data for health interventions, there has been substantial use of a relatively small number of existing studies to underpin policy development formulation. Intervention-specific cost and cost-effectiveness data have been used to plan overall budgets, to assess the relative efficiency of different interventions and to consider the resource requirements for programme implementation at both the local and national levels. Co…
Constructing socio-economic status indices
Theoretically, measures of household wealth can be reflected by income, consumption or expenditure information. However, the collection of accurate income and consumption data requires extensive resources for household surveys. Given the increasingly routine application of principal components analysis (PCA) using asset data in creating socio-economic status (SES) indices, we review how PCA-based indices are constructed, how they can be used, and…
The motivations for participation in public–private partnerships for the provision of tuberculosis treatment in South Africa
There is increasing interest in public-private partnerships (PPPs) generally, and more specifically for the provision of tuberculosis (TB) treatment, yet little is known about the motivations for such partnerships and the nature of the incentives that are required to achieve a desirable outcome of the partnerships. Using the new institutional economics approach, this study examines the motivations for participation in existing and potential model…
Economics (4 works) · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Public economics (2 works)