Geetesh Solanki

Biographic Data

ID9000013
NAMEGeetesh Solanki
GIVEN NAMESGeetesh
FAMILY NAMESolanki
SIGNATURESOLANKI G
AFFILIATIONSSouth African Medical Research Council
ORCID0000-0002-8512-3119
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Towards developing new private sector maternity care models in South Africa

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Sue Fawcus et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    Public-private partnerships are a key strategy in many middle-income countries to promote universal access to quality health care and reduce inequities. In maternity care, addressing inappropriate patterns of care within the private sector is essential for these partnerships to succeed. Caesarean rates are rising globally, four of the five countries with the highest caesarean rates are middle-income countries and private hospital care is a strong…

  • Experiences of public-private contracting for caesarean delivery in rural district public hospitals

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Sue Fawcus et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Governments in sub-Saharan Africa are exploring public-private-engagements for the delivery of health services. While there is existing empirical literature on public-private-engagements in high-income countries, we know much less about their operation in low and middle-income countries. Obstetric services are a priority area where the private sector can make an important contribution in terms of skilled providers. The objective of this study was…

  • Models using private general practitioners to provide caesarean deliveries at five South African district public hospitals

    Open AccessGeetesh Solanki, Emmanuelle Daviaud et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: Harnessing of private sector resources could play an important role in efforts to promote universal access to safe obstetric care including caesarean delivery in low- and middle-income countries especially in rural contexts but any such attempt would need to ensure that the care provided is appropriate and patterns of inappropriate care, such as high caesarean delivery rates, are not reproduced for the entire population. OBJECTIVE: To…

  • The need to incorporate the impact of population ageing into the post-Covid-19 policy and planning reset in Low and Middle Income Countries

    Open AccessGeetesh Solanki, Gabrielle Kelly et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to widen the health care demand-supply gap, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The virus has had the greatest impact on older persons in terms of morbidity and mortality, and is occurring at a time of rapid population ageing, which is happening three times faster in LMICs than in high-income countries. Addressing the demand-supply gap in a post-COVID-19 era, in which resources are further const…

  • Building back from the ground up

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Max Kroon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Globally the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised health systems and communities. \nGovernments in low- and middle-income \ncountries (LMICs) followed the approaches \nadopted by the Global North and advocated \nby international bodies such as the WHO, \nand instituted varying degrees of nationwide \nstay at home orders (lockdowns) from strict \nrestrictions (such as in South Africa, India \nand Zimbabwe) to weakly enforced lockdown as in Brazil.1 …