Unni Gopinathan

Biographic Data

ID6334097
NAMEUnni Gopinathan
GIVEN NAMESUnni
FAMILY NAMEGopinathan
SIGNATUREGOPINATHAN U
AFFILIATIONSNorwegian Institute of Public Health
ORCID0000-0002-7145-1461
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Collective action by community groups

    Luke J Matthews, Aaron Clark‐ginsberg et al.ARTICLEClimate and Development2023

    Community groups are taking initiatives to adapt to a changing climate. These organizations differ from businesses and governments by being non-profit, often informal, resource limited, and reliant on volunteer labor. How these organizations facilitate collective action is not well known, especially since they do not necessarily solve common pool resource governance, but rather improve common pool resources through collective action. In fact, at …

  • Procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage

    Open AccessUnni Gopinathan, E Dale et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    Amid successive shocks to the global economy, persistent inequalities within and between countries and limited availability of public resources, policymakers and the public face pressing decisions that underscore the vital role of procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage. This special supplement features eight articles examining the critical relationship between procedural fairness and health financing, drawing from t…

  • Developing the improved Community Health Fund in Tanzania

    Open AccessPeter Binyaruka, Gemini Mtei et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    Tanzania developed its 2016–26 health financing strategy to address existing inequities and inefficiencies in its health financing architecture. The strategy suggested the introduction of mandatory national health insurance, which requires long-term legal, interministerial and parliamentary procedures. In 2017/18, improved Community Health Fund (iCHF) was introduced to make short-term improvements in coverage and financial risk protection for the…

  • Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions

    Open AccessE Dale, Elizabeth F Peacocke et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices, scholars and policy makers have done extensive work on criteria to assess the substantive fairness of health financing policies: their impact on the distribution of rights, duties, benefits and burdens on the path towards UHC. However, less attention has been paid to the…

  • Procedural fairness in decision-making for financing a National Health Insurance Scheme

    Open AccessHassan Njie, E Dale et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices, and fair processes are critical for building legitimacy and trust. In 2021, The Gambia passed its National Health Insurance (NHI) Act. We explored decision-making processes shaping the financing of the NHI scheme (NHIS) with respect to procedural fairness criteria. We reviewed policy and strategic documents on The Gambia’s UHC reforms to identify key policy choices and i…

  • Procedural fairness and the resilience of health financing reforms in Ukraine

    Open AccessYuriy Dzhygyr, E Dale et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    In 2017, Ukraine’s Parliament passed legislation establishing a single health benefit package for the entire population called the Programme of Medical Guarantees, financed through general taxes and administered by a single national purchasing agency. This legislation was in line with key principles for financing universal health coverage. However, health professionals and some policymakers have been critical of elements of the reform, including …

  • New strides towards fair processes for financing universal health coverage

    Open AccessChristoph Kurowski, D Evans et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    Fair processes in health financing decisions should not be undervalued or perceived as secondary to the goals of universal health coverage. By integrating fair-process principles and criteria into health financing decisions, countries can achieve more equitable outcomes, strengthen the legitimacy of the decision-making process, build trust in public institutions and promote long-term sustainability of reforms.\n\nProcedural fairness requires a co…

  • Willingness to pay for a National Health Insurance Scheme in The Gambia

    Open AccessHassan Njie, Knut Reidar Wangen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    In pursuit of universal health coverage, many low- and middle-income countries are reforming their health financing systems and introducing health insurance schemes. As part of these reforms, lawmakers in The Gambia enacted ‘The National Health Insurance Bill, 2021’. The Act will establish a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) that pays for the cost of healthcare services for its members. This study assessed Gambians’ willingness to pay (WTP)…

  • The agency of community groups in health and climate change adaptation governance and policy in Sids

    Open AccessMatthew Scobie, Unni Gopinathan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2023References: 3

  • Evaluations of public health interventions produced by health technology assessment agencies

    Open AccessPascale Renée Cyr, Vageesh Jain et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2021

    OBJECTIVES: Health technology assessments (HTAs) have been suggested as a strategy to bridge the evidence-to-policy gap in public health. It is unclear to what extent HTAs have been prepared to assist decisions to implement public health interventions (PHIs). We aimed to describe the experience of HTA agencies by mapping, classifying, and analyzing the evidence content of HTAs of PHIs. METHODS: We systematically searched databases of 35 HTA agenc…

  • Global governance and the broader determinants of health

    Open AccessUnni Gopinathan, Nick Watts et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2018

    This comparative case study investigated how two intergovernmental organisations without formal health mandates - the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) - have engaged with global health issues. Triangulating insights from key institutional documents, ten semi-structured interviews with senior officials, and scholarly books tracing the history of both organisations, the study identified an evolving …

  • Conceptual and institutional gaps

    Open AccessUnni Gopinathan, Nicholas Watts et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2015

    BACKGROUND: Two themes consistently emerge from the broad range of academics, policymakers and opinion leaders who have proposed changes to the World Health Organization (WHO): that reform efforts are too slow, and that they do too little to strengthen WHO's capacity to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration. This study seeks to identify possible explanations for the challenges WHO faces in addressing the broader determinants of health, and the …