Wafa Aftab
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Khan M, Noor M, Rahman-Shepherd A, Siddiqui A, Khan S, van der Mark N, et al.
BMJ Glob Health
. 2025 Jan;
9(12).
PMID: 39819661
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...
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Khan M, Rahman-Shepherd A, Noor M, Siddiqui A, Goodman C, Wiseman V, et al.
Int J Health Policy Manag
. 2024 Apr;
13:8213.
PMID: 38618843
Background: Despite known adverse impacts on patients and health systems, "incentive-linked prescribing," which describes the prescribing of medicines that result in personal benefits for the prescriber, remains a widespread and...
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Huda M, Rabbani F, Shipton L, Aftab W, Khan K, Marini M
J Multidiscip Healthc
. 2023 Nov;
16:3629-3640.
PMID: 38034877
Background: Understanding health-seeking behaviors of caregivers is important to reduce child mortality. Several factors influence decision-making related to childhood illnesses. Objective: The objective of this study was to gather caretaker...
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Khan M, Rahman-Shepherd A, Noor M, Sharif S, Hamid M, Aftab W, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health
. 2023 Jun;
3(6):e0001890.
PMID: 37384598
Focus on profit-generating enterprise in healthcare can create conflicts of interest that adversely impact prescribing and pricing of medicines. Although a global challenge, addressing the impacts on quality of care...
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Noor M, Rahman-Shepherd A, Siddiqui A, Aftab W, Shakoor S, Hasan R, et al.
BMJ Glob Health
. 2023 Feb;
6(Suppl 3).
PMID: 36731921
Pharmaceutical marketing through financial incentivisation to general practitioners (GPs) is a poorly studied health system problem in Pakistan. Pharmaceutical incentivisation is seen to be distorting GPs prescribing behaviour that can...
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Siddiqi S, Aftab W, Venkat Raman A, Soucat A, Alwan A
BMJ Glob Health
. 2023 Jan;
8(Suppl 1).
PMID: 36657810
Many countries are adopting essential packages of health services (EPHS) to implement universal health coverage (UHC), which are mostly financed and delivered by the public sector, while the potential role...
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Noor M, Liverani M, Bryant J, Rahman-Shepherd A, Sharif S, Aftab W, et al.
Health Sociol Rev
. 2022 Nov;
32(2):198-212.
PMID: 36322797
Incentivisation of general practitioners (GPs) by pharmaceutical companies is thought to affect prescribing practices, often not in patients' interest. Using a Bourdieusian lens, we examine the socially structured conditions that...
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Egli-Gany D, Aftab W, Hawkes S, Abu-Raddad L, Buse K, Rabbani F, et al.
East Mediterr Health J
. 2022 Feb;
27(12):1203-1213.
PMID: 35137389
Background: The sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of migrants and refugees present important public health challenges. Social and structural determinants affect both the general health and SRHR of...
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Aftab W, Piryani S, Rabbani F
Hum Resour Health
. 2021 Aug;
19(1):99.
PMID: 34404445
Background: Lack of programmatic support and supervision is one of the underlying reasons of the poor performance of Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Program (LHWP). This study describes the findings and...
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Aftab W, Khan M, Rego S, Chavan N, Rahman-Shepherd A, Sharma I, et al.
Hum Resour Health
. 2021 Jul;
19(1):91.
PMID: 34301245
Background: To strengthen health systems, the shortage of physicians globally needs to be addressed. However, efforts to increase the numbers of physicians must be balanced with controls on medical education...