OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Health Services is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Cohesion and Community Resilience During COVID-19 and Pandemics: A Rapid Scoping Review to Inform the United Nations Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery	84
The Consequences of Neoliberalism in the Current Pandemic	69
COVID-19 and Precarious Employment: Consequences of the Evolving Crisis	53
COVID-19 and the Mental Health of People From Refugee Backgrounds	43
Early Warnings: The Lessons of COVID-19 for Public Health Climate Preparedness	39
Assessing the Impact of Individual Characteristics and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Provinces of Milan and Lodi	33
We Must Take Advantage of This Pandemic to Make a Radical Social Change: The Coronavirus as a Global Health, Inequality, and Eco-Social Problem	29
Inequality Set in Concrete: Physical Resources Available for Care at Hospitals Serving People of Color and Other U.S. Hospitals	29
COVID-19 and US Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities	29
A Comprehensive Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Approaches in Confronting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic	27
Covid-19 Outbreak in Brazil: Health, Social, Political, and Economic Implications	24
How did Sweden Fail the Pandemic?	22
Health Systems and Services During COVID-19: Lessons and Evidence From Previous Crises: A Rapid Scoping Review to Inform the United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery	21
COVID-19 Has Revealed America’s Broken Health Care System: What Can We Learn?	21
Measuring the Commercial Determinants of Health and Disease: A Proposed Framework	20
Does Health Insurance Lead to Improvement of Health Status Among Chinese Rural Adults? Evidence From the China Family Panel Studies	19
COVID-19 Economic Response and Recovery: A Rapid Scoping Review	19
For-Profit Nursing Homes in the Netherlands: What Factors Explain Their Rise?	18
Report From Bolsonaro’s Brazil: The Consequences of Ignoring Science	17
Health Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19: The Globally Reinforcing Need to Strengthen Health Inequalities Research Capacities	16
Toward an Intersectional Approach to Health Justice	16
For-Profit Hospitals Have Thrived Because of Generous Public Reimbursement Schemes, Not Greater Efficiency: A Multi-Country Case Study	15
The Privatization of the Italian National Health System and its Impact on Health Emergency Preparedness and Response: The COVID-19 Case	14
COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review of Epidemiology and Public Health System Response in Nordic Region	14
The U.S. Health Care System on the Eve of the Covid-19 Epidemic: A Summary of Recent Evidence on Its Impaired Performance	12

Temporary Refugee and Migration Visas in Australia: An Occupational Health and Safety Hazard	12
The Health of Indigenous Populations in South Asia: A Critical Review in a Critical Time	12
Estimating the COVID-Related Deaths Attributable to President Trump’s Early Pronouncements About Masks	12
Thinking with and Against the Social Determinants of Health: The Latin American Social Medicine (Collective Health) Critique from Jaime Breilh	12
Through An Equity Lens: Illuminating The Relationships Among Social Inequities, Stigma And Discrimination, And Patient Experiences of Emergency Health Care	12
Regulators, Pivotal Clinical Trials, and Drug Regulation in the Age of COVID-19	11
How the United Kingdom Controls Pharmaceutical Prices and Spending: Learning From Its Experience	11
Classism and Everyday Racism as Experienced by Racialized Health Care Users: A Concept Mapping Study	11
Why Asian Countries are Controlling the Pandemic Better Than the United States and Western Europe	10
The Effect of Material and Social Deprivation on Well-Being of Elderly in Europe	10
Addressing Racial Biases in Medicine: A Review of the Literature, Critique, and Recommendations	10
Inequalities in Older age and Primary Health Care Utilization in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review	10
Delayed Access to COVID-19 Vaccines: A Perspective on Low-income Countries in Africa	10
Coronavirus, Capitalism in Crisis and the Perversity of Public Health in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	9
Health Care Policies and COVID-19 Prevalence: Is There Any Association?	9
Common Pharmaceutical Price and Cost Controls in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany: Lessons for the United States	9
Mortality in the USA, the UK and Other Western Countries, 1989–2015: What Is Wrong With the US?	8
U.S.-Imposed Economic Sanctions on Iran in the COVID-19 Crisis From the Human Rights Perspective	8
German Pharmaceutical Pricing: Lessons for the United States	8
Gender Equality and Gender Inequalities in Self-Reported Health: A Longitudinal Study of 27 European Countries 2004 to 2016	8
India’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Frontal Assault on the “Historically Dispossessed”	8
Mapping the Margins in Health Services Research: How Does Race Intersect With Gender and Socioeconomic Status to Shape Difficulty Accessing HealthCare Among Unequal Brazilian States?	8
Confronting the Upstream Causes of COVID-19 and Other Epidemics to Follow	7
Precarious Work, Health, and African-American Men: A Qualitative Study on Perceptions and Experiences	7
2021 Climate and Health Review – Uncharted Territory: Extreme Weather Events and Morbidity	7
Financial and Quality Metrics of A Large, Publicly Traded U.S. Nursing Home Chain in the Age of Covid-19	7
Will For-Profits Keep Up the Pace in the United States? The Future of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly and Implications for Other Programs Serving Medically Vulnerable Populations	7
Climate Change and Human Well-Being in the 2020s: Lessons From 2020	6
What is Happening in the United States? How Social Classes Influence the Political Life of the Country and its Health and Quality of Life	6
Mortality at For-Profit Versus Not-For-Profit Hemodialysis Centers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	6
The Impact of Job and Insurance Loss on Prescription Drug use: A Panel Data Approach to Quantifying the Health Consequences of Unemployment During the Covid-19 Pandemic	6
Effectiveness of Government Policies in Controlling COVID-19 in India	6
The Relation Between Precarious Employment Arrangements and Social Precarity: Findings from the PREMIS Study in Stockholm, Sweden	6
Investor-owned Health Care: The Hidden Blight on America’s “System”	5
Perceived Discrimination and Increased Odds of Unmet Medical Needs Among US Children	5
Health Shocks and Unbalanced Growth of Medical Resources: Evidence From the SARS Epidemic in China	5
Impacts of Absolute and Relative Income on Self-Rated Health in Urban and Rural China	5
Comparison of COVID-19 Health Risks With Other Viral Occupational Hazards	5