Health Policy and Planning

Papers
(The median citation count of Health Policy and Planning is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Job preferences and trade-offs in rural health workforce retention: a discrete choice experiment from western China10
Economic burden of depressive disorders and HIV for people living with HIV in Uganda6
Power, interests, and maternal health care: a political economy analysis of service delivery redesign in Kenya5
Adolescent mental, sexual, and reproductive health in Ghana: a stakeholder analysis of actors’ influence over policy formulation and implementation4
The effect of an educational campaign on contraception seeking in Northern Nigeria: an interrupted time series analysis using routine health information system data4
Governing health through security in the Philippines: a realist analysis3
One size does not fit all: income-sensitive thresholds for catastrophic health expenditure3
Catastrophic Costs and Impoverishment Among Tuberculosis-Affected Households in Nepal: Results from a National Patient Cost Survey3
Privatization of maternal care and women’s access to quality healthcare: a case study on middlemen in Bangladesh3
Trends and patterns of inequality in modern contraceptive use in urban and rural India: are family planning programmes increasingly reaching the marginalized?3
Correction to: Governing health through security in the Philippines: a realist analysis3
Obituary: Prof. J. Patrick Vaughan, CBE, founding editor of “Health Policy and Planning”2
Evaluating the impact of conditional micro-incentives on linkage to HIV care in rural South Africa: Results from the Home-Based Intervention to Test and Start (HITS) trial2
An unintended complementarity: how the outpatient pooling policy increases inpatient services in China2
How are health capital and income inequality linked? Analysis of the 2012–2018 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey2
Willingness to pay for assisted reproductive technologies among individuals with infertility in China2
Gender-based violence policies and practices in humanitarian settings: a qualitative policy analysis, North Ethiopia2
How effective are community health workers in managing and preventing perinatal depression in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review of quantitative evidence2
Approximating vaccine delivery costs to reach zero-dose children: a Bayesian meta-regression analysis2
‘Honouring the storyteller’: the potential of Playback Theatre in health policy and systems research2
The impact of official development assistance for health on health outcomes: a rapid systematic review2
How to do (or not to do) realist evaluations to advance theory, practice, and justice in health systems research2
New health taxes in Ghana: a qualitative study exploring potential public support2
Out of focus: limited representation of men’s health needs in regional and global sexual and reproductive health policy2
Does increasing overall health expenditure reduce inequality in under 5 mortality rates between provinces in Indonesia?2
Building sustainable public health data science and informatics capacity: possibilities for Eastern Europe and Central Asia2
Integrating systems and implementation science in modeling and evaluating complex health interventions: methodological reflections from service delivery redesign in Kakamega, Kenya2
The effect of performance-based financing interventions on health worker motivation and job satisfaction: experimental evidence from six national pilots2
Enhancing the well-being of the elderly: evidence from China on the role of health investment1
Developments in the field of Health Policy Analysis in low- and middle-income countries: A review of published literature 2008-20231
Macroeconomic fluctuations and the prioritization of healthcare funding by local governments: longitudinal evidence from 5461 Brazilian municipalities1
Understanding determinants of parental HPV vaccine hesitancy under a municipal free vaccination program in Guangzhou, China1
The Indian Medical Association’s role in federal and state policy processes in India: a scoping review1
An integrated rehabilitation workforce within secondary healthcare in Pakistan: a qualitative study with physiotherapists1
Understanding disruption in the social contract between the medical profession and society in India: a tale of mismatched expectations?1
Assessment of community health workforce governance in federal Nepal1
Health professionals’ knowledge and understanding of inclusion health: a systematic literature review1
Balancing policy ambition and systems reality in expanding access to non-communicable diseases medicines: lessons from Ghana and Georgia1
Enrollment or dropout: dynamics of social health insurance participation among Chinese children and their impact on health service utilization and medical expenses1
Tailoring implementation strategies for acute coronary syndrome quality improvement program at primary care level in east, west, and central China1
Hybrid Governance: Negotiating justice for health services in informal urban settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh1
WHO guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep for children under 5: a qualitative study of Mongolian stakeholder perceptions1
Public policies addressing unhealthy diets in the South-East Asia region: identifying and countering the arguments that undermine policy implementation1
The political economy of adolescent mental health in Kenya1
Justice at the interface: advancing community and health system resilience through intersectionality theory1
Does health insurance increase health care utilization? Evidence of ex-post moral hazard from the Social Security Scheme in Thailand1
Strengthening Data-Driven Primary Health Care Delivery in Rajasthan, India1
Assessing the costs of antenatal care in Eastern Ethiopia: implications for improving the free maternity services policy1
Can co-designing interventions with affected communities help prevent violence against women? Findings from a process evaluation of the E le Saua le Alofa 1
Financial protection in flux: longitudinal evidence on out-of-pocket spending among middle-aged and older Mexicans during the ‘Seguro Popular’–INSABI transition1
Untangling the complex web of alcohol policy needs and potential solutions in Brazil: evidence from civil society and political stakeholders1
Health impact of alcohol regulatory interventions: a systematic review of policies in low- and middle-income countries1
Responsibility without autonomy: exploring the emergence of distributed leadership in a district hospital of the Western Cape province, South Africa1
Impact of integrated care models on inpatient costs and health services efficiency: evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis in China1
Health facilities as a lever for birth registration in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review1
A digital adaptation of the WHO’s Self-Help Plus psychological intervention to alleviate stress among community health workers: a mixed-methods evaluation of the SAMBHAV program in rural India1
Prospective policy analysis of healthcare workforce policies for effective non-communicable disease prevention and management in Meghalaya, India1
Effect of continuity of care on medical expenditures for hypertensive patients in high-altitude areas of China1
How to do (or not to do)… asset mapping in community health1
Bridging care hierarchies through regional global budget payment: evidence from county medical communities in Zhejiang Province, China1
Towards a coherent global health architecture: perspectives on integrating global health security and universal health coverage through diplomacy and governance reforms1
Primary health care–oriented reforms: the political economy dynamics underlying health-system shifts across nine countries1
Government-led scale-up of task-shifted mental health services in Lagos State, Nigeria: a mixed-methods descriptive–explanatory case study1
Strengthening health research capacity for postgraduate trainees: an indigenous realist evaluation of the ‘African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence’ programme1
Correction to: Assessing the costs of antenatal care in Eastern Ethiopia: implications for improving the free maternity services policy1
Crises and complexity: how can we make health interventions succeed?1
A narrative review on cost considerations in early intervention for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children in Africa1
Health policy and planning-thank you to reviewers0
Improving medication availability through mobile wallets and pooled community funds: results from the MoPuleesa hypertension intervention in rural Uganda0
Understanding the financial hardships faced by TB and HIV patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method study in Bandung and Yogyakarta, Indonesia0
Facilitators and barriers of public–private partnerships for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review0
The pervasiveness of racism in healthcare facilities in Latin America: a scoping review0
Preference for supplementary voluntary health insurance and heterogeneity in China: a discrete choice experiment0
Cervical cancer prevention and control in Nigeria: mapping and review of policies0
Identifying the ‘real cause of death’: the complexities of maternal death reviews in Tanzania0
Impact of social health insurance reforms on income inequality: evidence from China’s urban–rural residents’ medical insurance integration scheme0
The Health Systems Research section: scope and future0
Building climate resilient healthcare systems: lessons from Thailand0
The political economy of novel food taxes and subsidies in India: Insights from stakeholder interviews and a scoping review0
Impact of the Family Doctor Contracting System on unmet healthcare needs in Shandong Province, China0
Assessing the progress in implementing population-based policies to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 2010–20240
Gavi's Zero-Dose Learning Hubs: enhanced approach for evidence generation and use from local to global0
Decolonizing global health in an age of fragmentation: reimagining equity for universal health coverage0
A qualitative study of stakeholders’ perceptions towards the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Zambia: equity and financial sustainability in question0
Partial pictures: what routine health data can and cannot tell us about the quality of maternal and neonatal health services in Tanzania0
International price comparisons for national price-negotiated drugs in China: a cross-regional analysis0
Understanding the role of ‘software’ in health system capacity for non-communicable disease response: hypertension care in rural Coastal Kenya0
Enhancing health system efficiency in China: considering the interaction between use of primary care and the demand for secondary and tertiary care0
Tailored video-based lifestyle intervention for overweight or obese adults in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial0
Community Caregivers and Innovative Financing: A Qualitative Analysis of Thailand’s Ubolratana Hospital Model using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research0
When should a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) be declared? The case of the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo0
Applying a gender and equity matrix for a contextualized antimicrobial stewardship intervention in Pakistan0
Newborn technology use in low-resource settings: the role of health professionals’ communication in implementation0
Correction to: Measuring and monitoring child health and well-being—an integral part of the climate change agenda0
Operationalizing multisector partnerships: a Theory of Action and Reflection tool for zoonotic influenzas0
State-church partnerships as an innovative strategy in healthcare delivery for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review0
Aid cut, lives lost: estimating the impact of USAID’s withdrawal on maternal mortality in six African countries0
Participation of civil society organizations and academia in COVID-19 governance: insights from a six country study0
Measuring and monitoring child health and well-being—an integral part of the climate change agenda0
Reducing extreme heat impacts on health in pregnant women and infants: a community based intervention in Kilifi, Kenya0
Primary health care networks and impacts in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review0
How to (or how not to)…Enhance equity in the conduct of global health research: dimensions and directions for organizations0
A river, frontline families, and the double-edged sword of community participation: how nutrition interventions are shaped at the village level in Dhubri, India0
Health system response and recovery in Ukraine after 3 years of war: perspectives of front-line communities and internally displaced persons0
Managing public–private partnerships for health diagnostics: challenges and strategies0
Integration of complementary and alternative medicine in the Indian health system: how the state inadvertently undermines policy implementation0
Correction to: Can medical consortiums bridge the gap in health inequity in China? A propensity score matching analysis0
Conditional cash incentives, community health workers, and continuum of maternal and child healthcare: evidence from India0
Hospital twinning partnership for health system strengthening in rural China: a mixed-methods implementation study using WHO building blocks and CFIR framework0
Pain, policy, and the opioid dilemma in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of access, regulation, and health governance from 1990 to 20240
Barriers to raising taxes on tobacco products in Uganda: a political economy analysis0
How much can healthier diets reduce future economic and human costs? Results from Ethiopia and the Philippines0
Nursing student training as a novel approach to increasing community-based access to contraception in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: evaluation of outcomes0
Examining supplier-induced demand under regulated fees: dynamic panel evidence from Iran0
Psychological constructs and preferences for a complementary inclusive health insurance: a hybrid choice model0
Expert stakeholders on the role of qualitative research in World Health Organisation guidelines0
Understanding what factors influence community health worker involvement in hypertension service delivery in Kenya: applying a community health system lens0
Changing health systems—advancing justice and sustainability through research, policy and practice0
Political economy analysis of health: a scoping review of concepts, definitions, frameworks, outcomes, and applications0
Surgical indicators for obstetrics and family planning in routine health information systems: a landscape analysis0
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Health Policy and Planning0
Identifying community pharmacists’ preferences for attributes of public health interventions in Kenya: a discrete choice experiment0
Sustaining health systems in sub-Saharan Africa: public–private partnerships in a new era of reduced donor funding0
Aid, debt, International Monetary Fund conditionalities and domestic health financing in low- and middle-income countries0
Understanding the formulation of non-communicable disease policies in Nepal: a qualitative study0
Does dosage matter? Effects of results-based financing layered on top of less comprehensive direct facility financing in Tanzania0
The economic cost of outpatient primary care of adults with multimorbidity (HIV, diabetes, and hypertension) in rural South Africa0
Cost-effectiveness analysis of vitamin A supplementation delivery modalities in the DRC, Togo, and Niger: informing sustainable program design0
Condom use prevalence during the COVID-19 pandemic among female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis0
Intervention co-design to reduce the impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Burkina Faso0
Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in older Mexican people based on their social security status0
Measuring and assessing corruption in public health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of methods0
Assessing intervention effects on healthcare-related financial protection in low- and middle-income countries: a rapid evidence review0
Can innovation strengthen resilient, just and sustainable health systems in disaster-prone settings? Insights from HSR20240
Local level health governance strengthening for universal health coverage: implementing the Bayang Malusog-Municipal Leadership Development Program in Aklan, Philippines0
Advancing health policy and systems research and analysis: new frontiers, renewed relevance0
Community care policy at the intersection of HIV and unemployment crises in South Africa: paradoxes and paradigms0
Expanding budget space to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: what role for tax expenditures?0
What affects the performance of hospital financing interventions in low and lower-middle income countries from the program design and implementation perspective? A scoping review0
Can medical consortiums bridge the gap in health inequity in China? A propensity score matching analysis0
Advancing justice and sustainability through health system resilience under economic sanctions0
Self-reported job histories: potential value of the method in health policy and systems research0
Survive and Thrive in Brazil: estimating the impact of the Boa Vista early childhood program0
Integrating eye health into a child health policy in Tanzania: global and national influences0
Older adults’ experiences of health seeking in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of qualitative studies0
Toward a common lexicon in gender analysis for global health programs and policies0
Multi-actor collaborations in primary health care implementation: a Social Network Analysis of the primary health care strategy in Ghana0
Time to fully account for cost in monitoring financial protection and universal health coverage in low- and middle-income settings0
Exploring the roles of informal healthcare providers in urban settings to improve access and quality of care for the urban poor: experience from Bangladesh, Ghana, Nepal, and Nigeria0
Beyond evidence: how actor dynamics and power shape knowledge translation for health policy in Kenya0
‘This is not our mandate’: a qualitative case study on the resilience of a humanitarian health programme in Lebanon0
Understanding informal payments in the health sector in Malawi: results of a multidistrict household survey0
Climate-related health threats in Tanzania: a multilevel analysis of key policies, strategies, and community response0
Script Shift: South African pharmacists’ knowledge and perspectives of e-prescribing0
Remittances, political economy and public health expenditure: evidence from Africa0
Protecting unaccompanied migrant youth in transit through Mexico: frontline perspectives on appropriate policy implementation0
Using mHealth to provide sexual and reproductive health services to young people in rural Ghana: health care providers’ perspectives0
Pathways of change for essential newborn care practices and health care seeking: a process evaluation of Mamás del Río, a community-based, maternal and neonatal health intervention in the Peruvian Ama0
Preferences and perceptions around uptake of different TB preventive therapy regimens: An exploratory study in Gauteng and Limpopo, South Africa0
The impacts of removing pharmaceutical co-payments for chronic conditions at primary care level: a pilot study in rural China0
Determinants of distress financing for healthcare service utilization: a convergent mixed-method study at a tertiary hospital in Malaysia0
COVID-19 kit distribution in six Latin American countries: bureaucratic autonomy, populism, and evidence-based policymaking0
Assessing the cost implications of integrating and scaling up HIV services for key populations in Kenya and Malawi0
Overcoming barriers to pediatric intensive care in low-resource settings: an institutional experience from Northeast India0
How policy entrepreneurs solve local health problems in the global South: an exploratory study0
Health systems resilience and private for-profit sector engagement: lessons from the second COVID-19 wave in Uttar Pradesh, India0
Stakeholder perceptions of political and economic factors influencing vaccination in two States with a high burden of zero-dose children in Nigeria0
Mapping policy gaps and governance challenges in Kenya’s hand hygiene environment: a health policy triangle analysis0
Residents’ preference trade-offs for critical illness insurance scheme design: a discrete choice experiment in Shandong Province, China0
Context and generalizability in health policy and systems research: a plea for an integrative praxis of theorizing0
Dynamic and heterogeneous impacts of granting and revoking elective c-section rights in São Paulo0
Informal health care providers in Nigerian slums: perspectives on how to link them with the formal health system0
Self-care and health seeking for diabetes and hypertension in Cambodia0
0.0676109790802