OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health Policy and Planning is 7. 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
Document analysis in health policy research: the READ approach	136
Health system resilience: a literature review of empirical research	100
On time horizons in health economic evaluations	39
Tuberculosis control and care in the era of COVID-19	35
The development of hospital accreditation in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review	32
What role can health policy and systems research play in supporting responses to COVID-19 that strengthen socially just health systems?	30
What are the barriers to implementing national antimicrobial resistance action plans? A novel mixed-methods policy analysis in Pakistan	30
From resilient to transilient health systems: the deep transformation of health systems in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	26
The burden of household out-of-pocket health expenditures in Ethiopia: estimates from a nationally representative survey (2015–16)	25
Health systems constraints and facilitators of human papillomavirus immunization programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review	25
The origins of Ethiopia's primary health care expansion: The politics of state building and health system strengthening	21
Interventions to strengthen the leadership capabilities of health professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	19
How does embedded implementation research work? Examining core features through qualitative case studies in Latin America and the Caribbean	17
Implementation research and human-centred design: how theory driven human-centred design can sustain trust in complex health systems, support measurement and drive sustained community health volunteer	17
How ready is the system to deliver primary healthcare? Results of a primary health facility assessment in Enugu State, Nigeria	17
The worse the better? Quantile treatment effects of a conditional cash transfer programme on mental health	17
Approaches to integrating palliative care into African health systems: a qualitative systematic review	16
Evaluating implementation strategies for essential newborn care interventions in low- and low middle-income countries: a systematic review	16
The distinctive roles of urban community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature	16
Hope and trust in times of Zika: the views of caregivers and healthcare workers at the forefront of the epidemic in Brazil	15
Is patient navigation a solution to the problem of "leaving no one behind"? A scoping review of evidence from low-income countries	15
How do decision-makers use evidence in community health policy and financing decisions? A qualitative study and conceptual framework in four African countries	15
Health reform and Indigenous health policy in Brazil: contexts, actors and discourses	15
Social values and health systems in health policy and systems research: a mixed-method systematic review and evidence map	15
Strategies used to establish palliative care in rural low- and middle-income countries: an integrative review	15

Policy Process And Non-State Actors’ Influence On The 2014 Mexican Soda Tax	13
Implementation research is crucial to countries’ efforts to strengthen learning health systems	13
Implementation research on sustainable electrification of rural primary care facilities in Ghana and Uganda	13
Understanding the factors influencing the implementation of participatory interventions to improve care coordination. An analytical framework based on an evaluation in Latin America	13
Effectiveness of a nutrition education and counselling training package on antenatal care: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Addis Ababa	12
Optimizing treatment cascades for mental healthcare in Mozambique: preliminary effectiveness of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach for Mental Health (SAIA-MH)	12
A public–private partnership for dialysis provision in Ethiopia: a model for high-cost care in low-resource settings	12
The association between an increased reimbursement cap for chronic disease coverage and healthcare utilization in China: an interrupted time series study	12
What happens when performance-based financing meets free healthcare? Evidence from an interrupted time-series analysis	12
Applying a complex adaptive systems approach to the evaluation of a school-based intervention for intimate partner violence prevention in Mexico	12
Guiding principles for quality, ethical standards and ongoing learning in implementation research: multicountry learnings from participatory action research to strengthen health systems	11
Staff recognition and its importance for surgical service delivery: a qualitative study in Freetown, Sierra Leone	11
Delivering a primary-level non-communicable disease programme for Syrian refugees and the host population in Jordan: a descriptive costing study	11
Utilization of traditional medicine in primary health care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	11
Juridification of maternal deaths in Ethiopia: a study of the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system	10
Health equity funds as the pathway to universal coverage in Cambodia: care seeking and financial risk protection	10
Shifting from tobacco growing to alternatives in Malawi? A qualitative analysis of policy and perspectives	9
Competing interests, clashing ideas and institutionalizing influence: insights into the political economy of malaria control from seven African countries	9
Improving health facility delivery rates in Zanzibar, Tanzania through a large-scale digital community health volunteer programme: a process evaluation	9
Climate change: an urgent priority for health policy and systems research	9
Drink, but don't drive? The alcohol industry’s involvement in global road safety	9
Preferences of healthcare providers for capitation payment in Kenya: a discrete choice experiment	9
What will it cost to prevent violence against women and girls in low- and middle-income countries? Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia	9
Intimate partner violence is associated with poorer maternal mental health and breastfeeding practices in Bangladesh	8
Breast cancer in Thailand: policy and health system challenges to universal healthcare	8
Socioeconomic inequality in premiums for a community-based health insurance scheme in Rwanda	8
Equity in coverage of maternal and newborn care in India: evidence from a nationally representative survey	8
Team-based primary health care for non-communicable diseases: complexities in South India	8
The impact of a personalized, community-based counselling and referral programme on modern contraceptive use in urban Ghana: a retrospective evaluation	8
Collaborating to co-produce strategies for delivering adolescent sexual and reproductive health interventions: processes and experiences from an implementation research project in Nigeria	7
Cross-border medical travels from Cambodia: pathways to care, associated costs and equity implications	7
Strengthening mental health services in Sierra Leone: perspectives from within the health system	7
Distributional impact of the Malawian Essential Health Package	7
Perspectives and practices of healthcare providers and caregivers on healthcare-associated infections in the neonatal intensive care units of two hospitals in Ghana	7
From research to international scale-up: stakeholder engagement essential in successful design, evaluation and implementation of paediatric HIV testing intervention	7
Defining ‘older people’ in Chile: challenges in planning policies for ageing populations	7
Tracing theories in realist evaluations of large-scale health programmes in low- and middle-income countries: experience from Nigeria	7
Identifying pathways for large-scale implementation of a school-based mental health programme in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a theory-driven approach	7
Is IV iron sucrose a cost-effective option for treatment of severe anaemia in pregnancy as compared with oral iron?	7
Budget line items for immunization in 33 African countries	7
Organizations matter in local governance: evidence from health sector decentralization in Honduras	7