This article provides a comprehensive national analysis of alcohol use among Sri Lankan adults (age 18+), reporting yearly prevalence, demographic patterns, and associated health-service implications.

This article uses dominance-based distributional cost-effectiveness analysis to compare different cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk screening strategies in Sri Lanka, assessing both equity and efficiency trade-offs. It finds that certain opportunistic screening approaches could improve health outcomes equitably while remaining cost-effective across socioeconomic groups.

This study titled “The Diabetes Care Cascade in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of Losses, Disparities, and Opportunities for Improved Health System Outcomes” examines the progression of care for diabetes in Sri Lanka using data from a nationally representative longitudinal cohort. The authors apply the cascade of care framework – assessing steps from testing and diagnosis through treatment and glycaemic control – and use logistic regression and concentration indices to quantify losses at each stage alongside socioeconomic inequalities.

This cross-country study identifies health system practices and policies across Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America that helped maintain essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting strategies for resilience and continuity of care.

This nationally representative cross-sectional study in Sri Lanka found that among adults with hypertension, only about half were diagnosed and only one in five achieved blood-pressure control — with the largest losses in the care cascade occurring at the diagnosis and treatment-to-control stages.

This study establishes Sri Lankan EQ-5D-5L population norms and utility values for health-related quality of life and catalogs disutility associated with chronic conditions, providing essential reference data for health economic evaluations and policy-making.

This global pooled analysis tracks diabetes prevalence and treatment trends from 1990 to 2022 using data from over 1,100 population-representative studies, revealing a sharp rise in diabetes cases and persistent gaps in treatment coverage worldwide.

This study develops and evaluates machine-learning models to predict asthma presence using data from 6,665 adults in the Sri Lanka Health and Ageing Study, aiming to support cost-effective self-detection and early diagnosis.

This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license.

This study assesses health outcomes, quality of life and healthcare use among Sri Lankan adults with indications of four undiagnosed chronic conditions (CHD, hypertension, diabetes, depression), finding those with undiagnosed symptomatic conditions like CHD and depression have worse health and greater service use than peers without indications.

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This population-based study estimates the prevalence and epidemiological features of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) among Sri Lankan adults, reporting overall and sex-specific prevalence and associated risk factors like age, hypertension and diabetes