Samath D Dharmaratne

About Samath D Dharmaratne

Samath D Dharmaratne, With an exceptional h-index of 78 and a recent h-index of 77 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Peradeniya, specializes in the field of Injury Prevention, road traffic injury prevention, health economics, global health.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Development and Formative Evaluation of an Innovative, National Near-miss Reporting System for Curative Healthcare Institutions in Sri Lanka

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in …

Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Psychometric properties of a cognitive aptitude test administered to first year medical students of two state universities in Sri Lanka

Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: development assistance and domestic spending on health between 1990 and 2026

Global, regional, and national incidence of six major immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: findings from the global burden of disease study 2019

Mothers’ ability to determine and measure paracetamol doses for children—a contrived observational study

Spatial distribution of COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka

Samath D Dharmaratne Information

University

Position

Chair Professor of Community Medicine Sri Lanka

Citations(all)

171317

Citations(since 2020)

122462

Cited By

91501

hIndex(all)

78

hIndex(since 2020)

77

i10Index(all)

128

i10Index(since 2020)

119

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Samath D Dharmaratne Skills & Research Interests

Injury Prevention

road traffic injury prevention

health economics

global health

Top articles of Samath D Dharmaratne

Development and Formative Evaluation of an Innovative, National Near-miss Reporting System for Curative Healthcare Institutions in Sri Lanka

Authorea Preprints

2024/4/25

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in …

The Lancet

2024

Psychometric properties of a cognitive aptitude test administered to first year medical students of two state universities in Sri Lanka

2024

Mothers’ ability to determine and measure paracetamol doses for children—a contrived observational study

Journal of Child Health Care

2023/3

Spatial distribution of COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka

BMC Public Health

2023/9/9

Lahiru Sandaruwan Galgamuwa
Lahiru Sandaruwan Galgamuwa

H-Index: 8

Samath D Dharmaratne
Samath D Dharmaratne

H-Index: 59

Household use of biomass fuel, especially traditional stove is associated with childhood wheeze and eczema: a cross sectional study of rural communities in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Journal of Asthma

2023/2/1

Pandemic Simulator: An Agent-Based Framework with Human Behavior Modeling for Pandemic-Impact Assessment to Build Sustainable Communities

Sustainability

2023/7/17

PDSIM: An Agent-Based Framework with Human Behavior Modeling for Pandemic Impact Assessment to Build Sustainable Communities

2023/5/25

Improving birth weight by increasing the knowledge of both pregnant mothers and their partners. An experience from a Sri Lankan study

2023/5/11

Informal carers’ information needs in managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of people with dementia and related mHealth applications: a systematic integrative review …

2023/5/1

A comparison of transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Virology journal

2023/4/2

Neonatal care cost of" adverse neonatal outcome" following term deliveries in SriLanka.

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science

2023/4/1

Samath D Dharmaratne
Samath D Dharmaratne

H-Index: 59

Morbidity profile and pharmaceutical management of adult outpatients between primary and tertiary care levels in Sri Lanka: A dual-centre, comparative study

2023/12/6

Samath D Dharmaratne
Samath D Dharmaratne

H-Index: 59

COVID-19 Deaths in Sri Lanka-Implications for Global Health

Available at SSRN 4597984

2023/10/11

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