We analyzed the technical basis for a major global program to reduce disease among the
poor. Effective interventions exist against the few diseases which most account for excess …

The study investigates the association between tobacco and alcohol use, and the potential
risk of impoverishment from borrowing and distress selling of assets for meeting costs of …

Despite limited evidence of successful development and implementation of contributory
health insurance and low and middle income countries, many countries are in the process …

Objective Assess the quality of healthcare across African countries based on health
providers' clinical knowledge, their clinic attendance and drug availability, with a focus on …

Fifty years ago, health outcomes in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia were
not far behind those in Western Europe and well ahead of most other regions of the world …

The study uses data from the National Family Health Survey-II, a nationally representative
survey from India of 92,486 households, to investigate the association between household …

Big data processing frameworks such as Hadoop have been widely adopted to process a
large volume of data. A lot of prior work has focused on the allocation of resources and the …

Apache Spark is an in-memory analytic framework that has been adopted in the industry and
research fields. Two memory managers, Static and Unified, are available in Spark to allocate …

The road to universal health coverage (UHC) needs not be driven by big reforms that
include the initiation of health insurance, provider–funder separation, results-based …

Background: Countering COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been a challenge in Saudi
Arabia, one of the countries affected most by the pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean …