Staff

John E. Ataguba – Researcher/Lecturer

John Ataguba joined the Health Economics Unit (HEU) as a Researcher/Lecturer in March 2008. He holds a Business Science Honours degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria and a Masters in Public Health (specialising in Health Economics) from UCT. He is currently completing a PhD in Economics at UCT.

Before joining the HEU, John worked in Nigeria as a lecturer in economics at the University of Nigeria where he was involved in teaching and research.

Research interests: Poverty analysis, equity in health and health financing, quantitative health economics and econometric research

Current research projects: John is currently involved in the SHIELD (Strategies for Social Health Insurance for Equity in Less Developed Countries) research project.

Current teaching: John is teaching on some modules for the Masters in Public Health specialising in Health Economics at the HEU. He also teaches on the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics.

Publications

Journal articles

2012

ATAGUBA, J. E. (2012) Alcohol Policy and Taxation in South Africa: An Examination of the Economic Burden of Alcohol Tax. Applied Health Economics & Health Policy, 10 (1), 65-76

CHUMA, J., MAINA, T. & ATAGUBA, J. (2012) Does the distribution of health care benefits in Kenya meet the principles of universal coverage? BMC Public Health, 12(20).

2011

ATAGUBA, J. E., AKAZILI, J. & MCINTYRE, D. (2011) Socioeconomic-related health inequality in South Africa: evidence from General Household Surveys. International Journal for Equity in Health, 10.

ATAGUBA, J. (2011) Reassessing catastrophic health-care payments with a Nigerian case study. Health Economics, Policy and Law.Published online: 11 Feb 2011.

HARRIS, B., GOUDGE, J., ATAGUBA, J. E., MCINTYRE, D., NXUMALO, N., JIKWANA, S. & CHERSICH, M. (2011) Inequities in access to health care in South Africa. Journal of Public Health Policy, 32, S102-S123.

HARRIS, B., NXUMALO, N., ATAGUBA, J. E., GOVENDER, V., CHERSICH, M. & GOUDGE, J. (2011) Social solidarity and civil servants’ willingness for financial cross-subsidization in South Africa: Implications for health financing reform. Journal of Public Health Policy, 32, S162-S183.

2010

ATAGUBA, J. E. & AKAZILI, J. (2010) Health care financing in South Africa: moving towards universal coverage. Continuing Medical Education, 28(2).

ATAGUBA, J. E. & MOONEY, G. (2010) A Communitarian Approach to Public Health. Health Care Analysis, Published online: 31 March 2010.

MCINTYRE, D. & ATAGUBA, J. E. (2010) How to do (or not to do) . . . a benefit incidence analysis. Health Policy and Planning Advance, Published online on August 4.

2009

ATAGUBA, J. E. & MOONEY, G. (2009) Building on ‘The concept of prevention: a good idea gone astray?’. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Published online: 24 November 2009.

MOONEY, G. & ATAGUBA, J. E. (2009) The global financial meltdown and the need for a political economy of health promotion. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 20, 3-4.

Chapters in books

2009

BORGHI, J., ATAGUBA, J., MTEI, G., AKAZILI, J., MEHEUS, F., REHNBERG, C. & MCINTYRE, D. (2009) Methodological challenges in evaluating health care financing equity in data-poor contexts: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. IN CHERNICHOVSKY, D. & HANSON, K. (Eds.) Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research. United Kingdom, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Working papers, policy documents and reports

2012

Ataguba, John, Fonta, William and Ichoku, Ementa Hyacinth, The Determinants of Multidimensional Poverty in Nsukka, Nigeria (September 1, 2011). PEP PMMA Working Paper No. 2011-13.

2009

ATAGUBA, J. & MCINTYRE, D. (2009) Financing and benefit incidence in the South African health system: Preliminary results. Health Economics Unit Working Paper 09-1. Cape Town, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town.

2008

ATAGUBA, J. E., ICHOKU, H. E. & FONTA, W. M. (2008) Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Community Healthcare Insurance Scheme in Rural Nigeria. PEP-NETWORK Working Paper No. 2008-10. Canada, University of Laval. (Also available in Policy Brief version, download PDF)

MCINTYRE, D., OKORAFOR, O., ATAGUBA, J., GOVENDER, V., GOUDGE, J., HARRIS, B., NXUMALO, N., MOETI, R., MAJA, A., PALMER, N. & MILLS, A. (2008) Health care access and utilisation, the burden of out-of-pocket payments and perceptions of the health system: Findings of a national household survey. Department of Health.

Contact

Email: John.Ataguba@uct.ac.za, Tel: 27 21 404 7701