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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Document analysis in health policy research: the READ approach	190
From resilient to transilient health systems: the deep transformation of health systems in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	31
The origins of Ethiopia's primary health care expansion: The politics of state building and health system strengthening	26
Interventions to strengthen the leadership capabilities of health professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	24
How ready is the system to deliver primary healthcare? Results of a primary health facility assessment in Enugu State, Nigeria	22
How does embedded implementation research work? Examining core features through qualitative case studies in Latin America and the Caribbean	19
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	18
Evaluating implementation strategies for essential newborn care interventions in low- and low middle-income countries: a systematic review	18
Is patient navigation a solution to the problem of "leaving no one behind"? A scoping review of evidence from low-income countries	18
Health reform and Indigenous health policy in Brazil: contexts, actors and discourses	16
Implementation research on sustainable electrification of rural primary care facilities in Ghana and Uganda	15
Effectiveness of a nutrition education and counselling training package on antenatal care: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Addis Ababa	13
Optimizing treatment cascades for mental healthcare in Mozambique: preliminary effectiveness of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach for Mental Health (SAIA-MH)	13
Competing interests, clashing ideas and institutionalizing influence: insights into the political economy of malaria control from seven African countries	13
Staff recognition and its importance for surgical service delivery: a qualitative study in Freetown, Sierra Leone	13
Guiding principles for quality, ethical standards and ongoing learning in implementation research: multicountry learnings from participatory action research to strengthen health systems	13
Implementation research is crucial to countries’ efforts to strengthen learning health systems	13
Team-based primary health care for non-communicable diseases: complexities in South India	12
Socioeconomic inequality in premiums for a community-based health insurance scheme in Rwanda	11
Collaborating to co-produce strategies for delivering adolescent sexual and reproductive health interventions: processes and experiences from an implementation research project in Nigeria	11
Intimate partner violence is associated with poorer maternal mental health and breastfeeding practices in Bangladesh	11
Health equity funds as the pathway to universal coverage in Cambodia: care seeking and financial risk protection	10
Defining ‘older people’ in Chile: challenges in planning policies for ageing populations	10
Improving health facility delivery rates in Zanzibar, Tanzania through a large-scale digital community health volunteer programme: a process evaluation	10
In search of ‘community’: a critical review of community mental health services for women in African settings	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
The Indonesian Mental Health Act: psychiatrists’ views on the act and its implementation	8
Do social accountability approaches work? A review of the literature from selected low- and middle-income countries in the WHO South-East Asia region	8
Breast cancer in Thailand: policy and health system challenges to universal healthcare	8
Perspectives and practices of healthcare providers and caregivers on healthcare-associated infections in the neonatal intensive care units of two hospitals in Ghana	8
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
The magnitude of intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Eldoret, Kenya: exigency for policy action	7
Power, policy and abortion care in Uganda	7