OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Health Planning and Management is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
List of Contributors	36
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Illicit drug use in Limerick City: A stakeholder and policy analysis using multiple streams model	29
Employed but Unpaid, Volunteers or Paradoxical Surplus? Sierra Leone's Unsalaried Health Workforce	29
The ShEPower Index for Women's Empowerment in India: Development and Validation of an Index Based on National Family Health Survey‐V, 2019–2021	28
Pandemic preparedness with 20/20 vision: Applying an intersectional equity lens to health workforce planning	28
Willingness to pay brand premiums for generic medicines in Kenya: A bidding game experiment	26
Does Long‐Term Care Insurance Release the Unmet Long‐Term Care Needs and Promote Long‐Term Care Services? A Quasi‐Experimental Study in China	26
Financial conflicts of interest of physicians followed by neurosurgical journals on Twitter	26
Primary health care ‘From Alma‐Ata to Astana’: Fostering the international debate through the experiences of Portuguese‐speaking countries	26
How can countries respond to the health and care workforce crisis? Insights from international evidence	25
Women's decision‐making power can influence modern contraceptive use: Evidence from Bangladesh	24
Situations of anomie and the health workforce crisis: Policy implications of a socially sensitive and inclusive approach to human resources	23
How do we design and evaluate health system strengthening? Collaborative development of a set of health system process goals	23
List of Contributors	22
Evaluation of patient transport service in hospitals using process mining methods: Patients' perspective	22
The influence mechanism of psychological contract on primary medical staff's turnover intention in the context of COVID‐19 pandemic in China	22
Enhancing Learning Systems in Using Patient Experience Data: An Exploratory Mixed‐Method Study in Two Italian Regions	22
Artificial Intelligence and Corruption: Opportunities and Challenges in the Health Sector	20
Distress Financing for Institutional Delivery in India: A Regional Analysis of Economic Inequality, Coping Mechanisms, and Contributing Factors	20
Establishing Sustainable Access to Quality Uterotonics in Kano, Lagos and Niger States—A Supply Chain Perspective	20
Social and Health Services in the Platform: Developing a Concession Pricing Model for Eldercare Service Platforms	19
Applying Change Models and Methods During a Period of Vast Digital Transformation: A Systematic Review of Practice in Healthcare	19
Designing the Healthcare System for the Fulfilment of Patient Goals: A Patient‐Centric Exploration in the Home Dialysis Context	18
Exploring the impact of clawback on pharmaceutical expenditure: A case study of public hospitals in Greece	18

Sustainable Health Care Public‐Private Partnerships in Emerging Economies	18
America's Health at a Crossroads: What Trump's Second Term Means for the Future	18
Targeting systems not individuals: Institutional and structural drivers of absenteeism among primary healthcare workers in Nigeria	18
Health Expenditure, Governance Quality, and Health Outcomes in West African Countries	17
Challenges and Insights Gained During the Implementation of Population‐Based Birth Defect (BD) Surveillance in a Tribal District of Maharashtra, India	16
Variation in levels of professionalism in healthcare policymaking during the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations	16
Revisiting the debate on health financing in Low and Middle‐income countries: An integrative review of selected models	15
Linking Health Financing to Oral Health Coverage and Disease Burden in SEARO Countries: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis of Country Level Data	15
Care conundrum in the emergency department: The gap between clinician awareness and patient expectations surrounding advance directives	14
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Care friendliness in adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in Mexico and a characterisation of their clients	14
Job crafting as retention strategy: An ethnographic account of the challenges faced in crafting new nursing roles in care practice	14
Evaluation of an acute trust Domestic Abuse Coordinator role: Impact findings and a budget impact model	14
Internationally Educated Nurse (IEN) Integration in Nova Scotia: A Provincial Realist Evaluation	13
Definitions of health and social care standards used internationally: A narrative review	13
The experiences of minority language users in health and social care research: A systematic review	13
Purchasing Primary Care Services for Quality Chronic Care: Capitation With Performance Payments in Four Countries	12
Understanding paediatric data standards challenges through academia‐industry partnerships: A conect4children (c4c) qualitative study	12
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Organizational and Service Management Interventions for Improving the Patient Experience With Care: Systematic Review of the Effectiveness	12
Enabling environment and challenges for UN joint programming to strengthen nutrition: A multi‐country survey in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal	12
Defining Health Management: A Conceptual Foundation for Excellence Through Efficiency, Sustainability and Equity	11
Roadmap for rebuilding the health system and scenarios of crisis path in Gaza	11
Influenza and Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Utilisation in Vulnerable Urban Youth in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	11
Income Elasticity of Out‐of‐Pocket Healthcare Expenditure for Different Provider Types in Bangladesh	11
Job Satisfaction of Registered Dietitians Across Workplace Settings and Sectors in Lebanon: A Cross‐ Sectional Study	11
Understanding Children's Daily Approach to Their Food Culture: A Microsocial Study in a Marginalised Mexico City Neighbourhood	11
Policy interplay among social health insurance system, pension system, delayed retirement initiative and implications for the self‐rated health status of older workers	10
Leveraging Community Drug Outlets for Vaccination Delivery in Tanzania: A Qualitative Study to Inform Future Implementation	10
Issue Information	10
A systematic review of qualitative research on the self‐management experience of breast cancer patients	10
Challenges for the Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Developing Countries: Structural, Ethical and Technological Barriers	10
The importance of the whole‐of‐route approach for refugee and migrant health	10
The Shock Effect: How U.S. Global Health Policy Shifts Reshape Health Systems and Research	10
Issue Information	10
Improving the quality of family planning services in the Philippines: Barriers and opportunities	10
Efficacy of remote audio‐visual system versus standard onsite buddy system to monitor the doffing of personal protective equipment during COVID‐19 pandemic: An observational study	10
Integrating Telepsychiatry for Overseas Filipino Workers: Findings From a National Stakeholder Forum for Policy and Programme Development	10
Relevance and quality of implementation research proposals to face the challenges of public health in Latin‐America and the Caribbean	10
The association between mother‐to‐child HIV transmission knowledge and antenatal care utilisation in Cameroon	10
List of Contributors	10
Building capacity for equitable healthcare workforce policy, learning from migrant healthcare workers: A qualitative study with Romanian physicians working in Germany during COVID‐19	9
The devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria: Post‐traumatic stress disorder and mental health issues among the victims	9
The impact of leadership styles on employee safety behaviour among Chinese healthcare workers: The moderating role of cooperation facilitation	9
Relevance of Management Science in the One Health Paradigm	9
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Validation of Frail Scale and comparison with hospital frailty risk score to predict hospital use in a cohort of older Australian women	9
Counselling with a focus on product and price transparency for over‐the‐counter headache medicines: A simulated patient study in community pharmacies in Munich, Germany	9
How Health Systems ‘Software’ Factors Affect Frontline Health Workers' Humanitarian Response Efforts During Infectious Disease Outbreaks in the Rohingya Refugee Camps, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh	9
Missed initial appointments at Israeli child development centres: Rate, reasons, and associated characteristics	9

Effect of a community‐based primary healthcare programme on adverse pregnancy outcomes in Northern Ghana	9
Healthcare workforce equity for health equity: An overview of its importance for the level of primary health care	9
How is the medical service efficiency in China? An empirical analysis using stochastic frontier approach and gravity models	9
The Shadow Pandemic Contextualised: Albania's Response to Domestic Violence During COVID‐19	8
Issue Information	8
Towards CR² evaluation: Culturally ‐reflexive and ‐responsive evaluation in crises times and beyond	8
Evolution of health sector strategic planning in Tanzania: What have we learnt and how can we improve?	8
A discrete event simulation for improving operating theatre efficiency	8
The Brazilian Ministry of Health that faced greater challenges so far—Our management strengthened Sistema Único de Saúde by repairing a pandemic and past problems	8
Exploring early career researchers' perspectives of training and funding opportunities: Motivations and setbacks when applying for the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research's fellowship	8
COVID‐19 Pandemic in a Brazilian Afro‐Derived Community (Quilombo)	8
Inequalities in access to paid sick leave among workers in England and Wales	8
Trust as Foundation: Can Nigeria's New Health Workforce Policy Stem the Migration Tide?	8
Living in the Minds of Others: How Pudor and Social Judgements Affect Women's Cervical Cancer Screening Uptake in Mozambique?	8
How health literacy associates with healthcare utilization and health promotion behaviours in Turkey?: Contributions to discussions concerning the Anderson model and ecological models	7
Modelling the no‐show of patients to exam appointments of computed tomography	7
Implementing a group‐based multi‐component early child development intervention through the government health system in rural Bangladesh: A feasibility study	7
Demographic Moderation of Healthcare Expenditure Associated With Home‐Based Deaths: A Longitudinal Ecological Study in Japanese Municipalities, 2015–2022	7
Issue Information	7
Artificial intelligence and the future in health policy, planning and management	7
Letter to the Editor on "The Chief Wellness Officer: A long overdue catalyst for systemic change in Emergency Medicine"	7
How context influences the functionality of community‐level health governance structures: A case study of community health committees in Kenya	7
Trends and Equity in Continuous Maternity Care Utilization in Cambodia, 2000–2021	7
Strengthening the ICUs' human resource‐related responses to Covid‐19: A rapid review of the experience during the first year of public health emergency	7
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The power of artificial intelligence for managing pandemics: A primer for public health professionals	7
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No time to lose: Pandemic agreement—Urgency over complacency; unity over fragmentation	7
Counting Midwives Providing Clinical Care in Nevada	7
Assessment of resilience levels among Sri Lankan nurses: Is there room for improvement?	7
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How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden	7
Health workforce in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: From COVID‐19 lessons to actions	7
Assessing the choice of National Health Insurance Fund contracted outpatient facilities in Kenya: A qualitative study	7
Is health insurance really benefitting Indian population? Evidence from a nationally representative sample survey	7
Improving access and quality of primary healthcare through women and adolescents' user committees: A mixed‐methods case study in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo	7
Driving Innovation: The Impact of National Health Policies on Optometry Research in East Asia	7
Examining the Effects of Health Work Shortages and Deployment in Integrated Programme in Bihar, India: An Institutional Ethnography	7
Reframing Adolescent Under‐Vaccination as a Delivery‐System Transition Problem: A Response to Deck et al.	7
Evaluation of collaborative mental health services in Latin America: Theoretical and methodological basis	7
The workforce crisis in healthcare: Moving the debate to bridge evidence and policy	7
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Reasons for merging and collaborating in healthcare: Marriage or living apart together?	6
Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of typhoid fever in Africa: A review	6
Implementing a real‐time patient experience feedback in inpatient rehabilitation: Process evaluation informed by the normalisation process theory	6
Building a More Resilient, Inclusive Public Health Infrastructure: Insights From Chicago's Community‐Based COVID‐19 Corps	6
Tuberculosis in a weak health system, conflict and fragile zone: The monetary value of human lives lost associated with deaths of persons older than 14 years in Somalia	6
Global health workforce strategies to address the COVID‐19 pandemic: Learning lessons for the future	6
How hospital autonomy affects provider payment reform effectiveness	6
A lean approach for improving medicines management in Australia's first cardiac hospital inventory system	6
National and Subnational Models of Care That Support Primary Health Care: A Mixed‐Methods Study	6
Global Burden of Disease Due to High Body Mass Index and Projections to 2040: A Study Based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	6
Determinants of Health Research Evidence Utilization in the Health Planning of Tanzania: Perspectives of Participants From a Qualitative Study	6
Environmental sustainability in healthcare: Time to make outpatient care in orthopaedics and rheumatology greener	6
Strategies of drugs cost containment in hospital: A systematic literature review	6
Raising the issue of quality in implementation science reporting in global health: Implications for health planning and practice	6
Critical route for development of medical student leadership competencies in 35 Pan American Health Organization member states: A scoping review and thematic analysis	6
Issue Information	6
Analysis of Inequalities in Access to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Services for Indigenous Women in Three Latin American Countries	6
Estimating the Cost and Carbon Output of Musculoskeletal Primary Care Management Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Electronic Health Records	6
Does maternal empowerment improve dietary diversity of children? Evidence from Pakistan demographic and health survey 2017–18	6
Wearable technology to leverage home—Based cardiac rehabilitation: A step forward in cardiovascular disease management	6
Implications for the specialty board system: The struggle of young doctors in Japan's rigid healthcare framework	6
Examining the Effect of Parental COVID‐19 Vaccination Prior to Birth and the Association Between COVID‐19 and Cancer in Children Under Six	6
The role of primary health care in improving health status, financial protection and health equity in the context of China's health system reform	6
Cross‐Border Health Governance in Collapse: The Case for Buffer Health Corridors in the Gaza Strip	6
A critical look to community wisdom: Applying the World Café method to health promotion and prevention	6
Issue Information	6
Conspiracy Beliefs, Institutional Mistrust, and Health‐Related Behaviours During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Burkina Faso: A Mediation Analysis	6
COVID‐19 vaccination in low and middle‐income countries: Creating a sustainable roadmap for promoting public health intervention	6
Prevalence and Influencing Factors of Scoliosis Among Primary and Secondary School Students: A School‐Based Cross‐Sectional Study in Chongqing, China	6