Zafar Mirza
Biographic Data
| ID | 9019011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zafar Mirza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zafar |
| FAMILY NAME | Mirza |
| SIGNATURE | MIRZA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9159-8869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A systems-change approach to addressing the mortality surveillance gap in Pakistan
With a lack of cause of death estimation and an inadequate and fragmented Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system, Pakistan faces a significant gap in data on mortality. This poses significant challenges for health policy planning and monitoring. In this viewpoint, we draw on systems-change frameworks to examine and provide recommendations to improve mortality surveillance in Pakistan. We use the multiple cause diagram framework to underst…
Leader of people’s health
Doctors taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies is common and not substantially reduced by an educational intervention
INTRODUCTION: Incentive-linked prescribing, which is when healthcare providers accept incentives from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing promoted medicines, is a form of bribery that harms patients and health systems globally. We developed a novel method using data collectors posing as pharmaceutical company sales representatives to evaluate private doctors' engagement in incentive-linked prescribing and the impact of a multifaceted educati…
Conflicting interests, institutional fragmentation and opportunity structures
Pakistan is the world’s fifth most populous country, with large segments of its population at risk from non-communicable diseases caused by consumption of harmful products, including tobacco and sugar-sweetened beverages. Even though evidence exists that increased taxes on harmful products leads to consumption reductions as well as increased revenues, Pakistan’s health taxes remain low. We seek to understand the reasons for the deficient health t…
Framing health taxes
Health taxes are effective policy instruments to save lives, raise government revenues and improve equity. Health taxes, however, directly conflict with commercial actors’ interests. Both pro-tax health advocates and anti-tax industry representatives seek to frame health tax policy. Yet, little is known about which frames resonate in which settings and how framing can most effectively advance or limit policies. To fill this gap, we conducted qual…
Leaving no one behind
akistan's successful flattening of the successive COVID-19 curves is being acknowledged, along with questions being asked for unpacking the factors that contributed to its success With a fragmented health system, when COVID-19 happened, Pakistan had to scramble its response to the imminent challenge. The need to communicate was urgent, as promotion of behaviours like physical distancing and wearing of face masks is integral to curtailing the viru…
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Leaving no one behind
akistan's successful flattening of the successive COVID-19 curves is being acknowledged, along with questions being asked for unpacking the factors that contributed to its success With a fragmented health system, when COVID-19 happened, Pakistan had to scramble its response to the imminent challenge. The need to communicate was urgent, as promotion of behaviours like physical distancing and wearing of face masks is integral to curtailing the viru…
Conflicting interests, institutional fragmentation and opportunity structures
Pakistan is the world’s fifth most populous country, with large segments of its population at risk from non-communicable diseases caused by consumption of harmful products, including tobacco and sugar-sweetened beverages. Even though evidence exists that increased taxes on harmful products leads to consumption reductions as well as increased revenues, Pakistan’s health taxes remain low. We seek to understand the reasons for the deficient health t…
Framing health taxes
Health taxes are effective policy instruments to save lives, raise government revenues and improve equity. Health taxes, however, directly conflict with commercial actors’ interests. Both pro-tax health advocates and anti-tax industry representatives seek to frame health tax policy. Yet, little is known about which frames resonate in which settings and how framing can most effectively advance or limit policies. To fill this gap, we conducted qual…
Leader of people’s health
Doctors taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies is common and not substantially reduced by an educational intervention
INTRODUCTION: Incentive-linked prescribing, which is when healthcare providers accept incentives from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing promoted medicines, is a form of bribery that harms patients and health systems globally. We developed a novel method using data collectors posing as pharmaceutical company sales representatives to evaluate private doctors' engagement in incentive-linked prescribing and the impact of a multifaceted educati…
A systems-change approach to addressing the mortality surveillance gap in Pakistan
With a lack of cause of death estimation and an inadequate and fragmented Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system, Pakistan faces a significant gap in data on mortality. This poses significant challenges for health policy planning and monitoring. In this viewpoint, we draw on systems-change frameworks to examine and provide recommendations to improve mortality surveillance in Pakistan. We use the multiple cause diagram framework to underst…
Political science (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (2 works) · Public economics (2 works) · Public health (2 works)