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Agnes Soucat
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 83
Citations - 6794
Agnes Soucat is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health policy & Public health. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 76 publications receiving 5556 citations. Previous affiliations of Agnes Soucat include African Development Bank & World Bank.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
Sarah Whitmee,Andy Haines,Chris Beyrer,Frederick Boltz,Anthony Capon,Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias,Alex Ezeh,Howard Frumkin,Peng Gong,Peter Head,Richard Horton,Georgina M. Mace,Robert Marten,Robert Marten,Samuel S. Myers,Sania Nishtar,Steven A. Osofsky,Subhrendu K. Pattanayak,Montira J Pongsiri,Cristina Romanelli,Agnes Soucat,Jeanette Vega,Derek Yach +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.
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[Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].
Dean T. Jamison,Lawrence H. Summers,George Alleyne,Kenneth J. Arrow,Seth Berkley,Agnes Binagwaho,Flavia Bustreo,David M. Evans,Richard G A Feachem,Julio Frenk,Gargee Ghosh,Sue J. Goldie,Yan Guo,Sanjeev Gupta,Richard Horton,Margaret E Kruk,Adel A. F. Mahmoud,Linah K. Mohohlo,Mthuli Ncube,Ariel Pablos-Mendez,K. Srinath Reddy,Helen Saxenian,Agnes Soucat,Karene H. Ulltveit-Moe,Gavin Yamey +24 more
TL;DR: A recent report by the Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035 as discussed by the authors, which is, a reduction in infectious, maternal, and child mortality down to universally low levels.
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Effect on maternal and child health services in Rwanda of payment to primary health-care providers for performance : an impact evaluation
Paulin Basinga,Paul Gertler,Agnes Binagwaho,Agnes Soucat,Jennifer R. Sturdy,Christel M. J. Vermeersch +5 more
TL;DR: P4P financial performance incentives can improve both the use and quality of maternal and child health services, and could be a useful intervention to accelerate progress towards Millennium Development Goals for maternal andChild health.
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Health workforce skill mix and task shifting in low income countries: a review of recent evidence
Brent D. Fulton,Richard M. Scheffler,Susan Sparkes,Erica Yoonkyung Auh,Marko Vujicic,Agnes Soucat +5 more
TL;DR: Task shifting is a promising policy option to increase the productive efficiency of the delivery of health care services, increasing the number of services provided at a given quality and cost.
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Neonatal survival: a call for action
Jose Martines,Vinod K. Paul,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Marjorie Koblinsky,Agnes Soucat,Neff Walker,Rajiv Bahl,Helga Fogstad,Anthony Costello +8 more
TL;DR: Development, implementation, and monitoring of national action plans for neonatal survival is a priority and the running costs of the selected packages at 90% coverage in the 75 countries with the highest mortality rates are estimated to be US4.1 billion dollars a year.