Parmar, Divya


Dr Divya Parmar  

Department

Position held

Department of Social Policy

LSE Health and Social Care

Research Officer

Experience keywords:

developing countries; economic evaluation; health systems research; healthcare financing; health insurance

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Divya is a Research Officer in LSE Health and Associate Editor of Globalization and Health. She is currently working on an EC-funded FP7 project Health Inc, investigating social exclusion in health care financing mechanisms in India, Ghana and Senegal. She is a co-applicant on an ESRC-funded project studying social and economic costs of pregnancy termination trajectories in Zambia. Her research interests include health care financing, equity and health systems research in developing countries.

Divya has a PhD from the Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Germany. In her PhD she investigated the causal impacts of community-based health insurance on household assets in rural Burkina Faso. She holds a Masters of Health Sciences in International Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai and an undergraduate degree in Economics from St Stephen's College, Delhi.

Previously she has worked with PneumoADIP and the World Health Organization on vaccine wastage. In India she has worked as a social worker in the areas of cancer care, adolescent health and substance abuse.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Healthcare

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Zambia; Asia; Africa; Ghana; Senegal; India

Languages:

Hindi [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7107 5304

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Parmar, Divya and de Allegri, Manuela and Savadogo, Germain and Sauerborn, Rainer (2013) Do community-based health insurance schemes fulfil the promise of equity? A study from Burkina Faso. Health policy and planning, online ISSN 0268-1080

2012

Parmar, Divya and Reinhold, Steffen and Souares, Aurélia and Savadogo, Germain and Sauerborn, Rainer (2012) Does community-based health insurance protect household assets?: evidence from rural Africa. Health services research, 47 (2). pp. 819-839. ISSN 0017-9124

Parmar, Divya and Souares, Aurélia and de Allegri, Manuela and Savadogo, Germain and Sauerborn, Rainer (2012) Adverse selection in a community-based health insurance scheme in rural Africa: implications for introducing targeted subsidies. BMC health services research, 12 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1472-6963

2011

Parmar, Divya and de Allegri, Manuela and Souares, Aurélia and Savadogo, Germain and Sauerborn, Rainer (2011) Equity impact of community-based health insurance (2004-2008). In:3rd International Conference on Health Financing in Developing and Emerging Countries (CERDI) (11-13 May 2011 : Université d’Auvergne, France).

Parmar, Divya and Souares, Aurélia and de Allegri, Manuela and Savadogo, Germain and Sauerborn, Rainer (2011) Community-based health insurance scheme in Burkina Fas: can premium subsidies increase adverse selection? In:13th Annual Scientific Conference of ICDDR,B: Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage (14-17 March 2011 : Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Parmar, Divya and Reinhold, Steffen and Souares, Aurélia and Savadogo, Germain and Sauerborn, Rainer (2011) Does community-based health insurance protect household assets?: evidence from rural Africa. In:8th World Congress on Health Economics (10-13 July, 2011 : Toronto, Canada).

2010

Souares, A. and Savadogo, G. and Dong, H. and Parmar, D. and Sié, A. and Sauerborn, R. (2010) Using community wealth ranking to identify the poor for subsidies: a case study of community-based health insurance in Nouna, Burkina Faso. Health & social care in the community, 18 (4). pp. 363-368. ISSN 1365-2524

Parmar, Divya and Baruwa, Elaine M and Zuber, Patrick and Kone, Souleymane (2010) Impact of wastage on single and multi-dose vaccine vials: implications for introducing pneumococcal vaccines in developing countries.. Human vaccines, 6 (3). pp. 270-278. ISSN 1554-8600

Parmar, Divya and Souares, Aurélia and Savadogo, Germain and Sauerborn, Rainer (2010) Does community-based health insurance protect household assets? In:9th International Conference on Health Economics, Management and Policy (28 June-1 July 2010 : Athens, Greece).

2009

Parmar, Divya (2009) Community-based health insurance: improving household economic indicators? In:2nd Scientific Meeting Centre de Recherche en Sante de Nouna (3-5 December 2009 : Nouna, Burkina Faso).

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