Parmar, Divya
Dr Divya Parmar
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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.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Healthcare
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Zambia; Asia; Africa; Ghana; Senegal; India
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Languages: Hindi [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
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 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). 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
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