List of works by Karen J Hofman

'Best buys' for surgery in South Africa.

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

'First 1000 days' health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: alignment of South African policies with high-quality evidence

scientific article published on January 2017

A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa

scientific article

A case for developing North-South partnerships for research in sickle cell disease

scientific article published on 05 October 2004

A systematic review of economic evaluations of CHW interventions aimed at improving child health outcomes.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Addressing research capacity for health equity and the social determinants of health in three African countries: the INTREC programme

scientific article published on 3 April 2013

Addressing the growing burden of trauma and injury in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published in January 2005

Applying a private sector capitation model to the management of type 2 diabetes in the South African public sector: a cost-effectiveness analysis

scientific article published on 30 September 2014

Attitudes of physicians and genetics professionals toward cystic fibrosis carrier screening

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Available data sources for monitoring non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in South Africa.

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Bibliometric trends of health economic evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

CHAT SA: Modification of a Public Engagement Tool for Priority Setting for a South African Rural Context

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Closing the mental health treatment gap in South Africa: a review of costs and cost-effectiveness

scientific article

Commentary on South Africa’s syndemic of undernutrition, obesity, and climate change

scientific article published in 2023

Cost and impact of scaling up interventions to save lives of mothers and children: taking South Africa closer to MDGs 4 and 5

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

Cost of inaction on sugar-sweetened beverage consumption: implications for obesity in South Africa

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Cost-effectiveness analysis of infant feeding strategies to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa

scientific article published on September 2013

Costs of a school-based dental mobile service in South Africa

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Decreasing the Burden of Type 2 Diabetes in South Africa: The Impact of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.

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Deletion of Huntington's disease-linked G8 (D4S10) locus in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.

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Determinants of Obesity and Associated Population Attributability, South Africa: Empirical Evidence from a National Panel Survey, 2008-2012

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Diffusion of information about neurofibromatosis type 1 DNA testing

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Economic evaluations of interventions to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality: a review of the evidence in LMICs and its implications for South Africa

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

Energy drink consumption and marketing in South Africa.

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Ethical issues in international environmental health research.

scientific article published in August 2003

Evidence that a tax on sugar sweetened beverages reduces the obesity rate: a meta-analysis.

scientific article

Evidence-informed capacity building for setting health priorities in low- and middle-income countries: A framework and recommendations for further research

scientific article published on 7 March 2017

Expanding access to mental health care: a missing ingredient.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Familial neurofibromatosis type 1: clinical experience with DNA testing

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Health Technology Assessment: Global Advocacy and Local Realities Comment on "Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage: We Need Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes, Not Just More Evidence on Cost-Effectiveness".

scientific article published on 29 August 2016

Health care utilization and outpatient, out-of-pocket costs for active convulsive epilepsy in rural northeastern South Africa: a cross-sectional Survey

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Human resources for research: building bridges through the Diaspora

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Hypertension education and adherence in South Africa: a cost-effectiveness analysis of community health workers

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Identifying high-risk areas for sporadic measles outbreaks: lessons from South Africa.

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Impact of supplemental immunisation activity (SIA) campaigns on health systems: findings from South Africa

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Implications of COVID-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Improving response rates through incentive and follow-up: the effect on a survey of physicians' knowledge of genetics.

scientific article published in November 1993

Introducing health technology assessment in Tanzania

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Mapping the health research landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: a study of trends in biomedical publications

scientific article published on January 2009

Measles control in Sub-Saharan Africa: South Africa as a case study

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Modelling the potential impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax on stroke mortality, costs and health-adjusted life years in South Africa

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

National Health Insurance in South Africa: Relevance of a national priority-setting agency.

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Neurofibromatosis 1; Recognition and Management of Associated Neuroblastoma

scientific article published on 01 December 1990

Neurofibromatosis type 1: the cognitive phenotype.

scientific article

Non-communicable diseases in South Africa: a challenge to economic development

scientific article published on 31 July 2014

Nutrition labelling: a review of research on consumer and industry response in the global South

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Obesogenic Environments: Access to and Advertising of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Soweto, South Africa, 2013.

scientific article

PUBLIC HEALTH: Implementation Science

scientific article published in Science

Physicians' Attitudes toward Disclosure of Genetic Information to Third Parties

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Population health in South Africa: a view from the salt mines

scientific article published on 5 July 2013

Preventing diabetes blindness: cost effectiveness of a screening programme using digital non-mydriatic fundus photography for diabetic retinopathy in a primary health care setting in South Africa.

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Preventing diabetic blindness: A priority for South Africa

scientific article published on 26 June 2014

Priority-setting for achieving universal health coverage

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Recommendations to improve the National Development Plan for Health

scientific article published on 07 September 2012

Reducing diarrhoea deaths in South Africa: costs and effects of scaling up essential interventions to prevent and treat diarrhoea in under-five children

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Reducing the sodium content of high-salt foods: effect on cardiovascular disease in South Africa

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Scaling Up Family Planning to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality: The Potential Costs and Benefits of Modern Contraceptive Use in South Africa

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Stigma and global health: looking forward.

scientific article published in February 2006

Strategic planning for saving the lives of mothers, newborns and children and preventing stillbirths in KwaZulu-Natal province South Africa: modelling using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST).

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Strengthening expertise for health technology assessment and priority-setting in Africa.

scientific article published in January 2017

Sugar and health in South Africa: Potential challenges to leveraging policy change

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Sugary beverage taxation in South Africa: Household expenditure, demand system elasticities, and policy implications

scientific article published on June 2017

Supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) in South Africa: comprehensive economic evaluation of an integrated child health delivery platform

scientific article published on March 2013

The cost of injury and trauma care in low- and middle-income countries: a review of economic evidence

scientific article

The direct medical cost of type 2 diabetes mellitus in South Africa: a cost of illness study

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

The disability adjusted life years due to stroke in South Africa in 2008.

scientific article published on 07 January 2013

The global burden of chronic diseases: overcoming impediments to prevention and control

scientific article published in June 2004

The globalization of health research: harnessing the scientific diaspora

scientific article published on April 2009

The history of the South African sugar industry illuminates deeply rooted obstacles for sugar reduction anti-obesity interventions

scholarly article by Alex Myers et al published 5 May 2017 in African Studies

The potential impact of a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages on obesity in South African adults: a mathematical model

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Triple return on investment: the cost and impact of 13 interventions that could prevent stillbirths and save the lives of mothers and babies in South Africa

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