OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal for Equity in Health is 31. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Healthcare equity in focus: bridging gaps through a spatial analysis of healthcare facilities in Irbid, Jordan	386
Access to health insurance amongst people with disabilities and its association with healthcare use, health status and financial protection in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	138
Prevalence and factors associated with undocumented children under-five in Haiti	126
Intersectionality analysis of young people’s experiences and perceptions of discrimination in primary health centers in Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria	107
Do state laws reduce uptake of Medicaid/CHIP by U.S. citizen children in immigrant families: evaluating evidence for a chilling effect	102
Can payment by results ensure equitable access to contraceptive services? a qualitative case study	79
Exploring the association between multidimensional poverty and antenatal care utilization in two provinces of Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional study	75
Inequities in access to palliative and end-of-life care in the black population in Canada: a scoping review	64
Implementing community based inclusive development for people with disability in Latin America: a mixed methods perspective on prioritized needs and lessons learned	58
Spatial accessibility and equity of primary healthcare in Zhejiang, China	56
Barriers to health, social and long-term care access among older adults: a systematic review of reviews	53
Multidomain and multilevel strategies to improve equity in maternal and newborn health services in Nepal: perspectives of health managers and policymakers	50
How to make healthy early childhood development more likely in marginalized Roma communities: a concept mapping approach	48
Financial protection effects of private health insurance: experimental evidence from Chinese households with resident basic medical insurance	45
Placing equity at the heart of eHealth implementation: a qualitative pilot study	43
Inequalities in life expectancy in Australia according to education level: a whole-of-population record linkage study	43
Social and economic impacts of non-communicable diseases by gender and its correlates: a literature review	41
Policy disparities in response to COVID-19 between Singapore and China	40
The relationship between neighbourhood income and youth mental health service use differs by immigration experience: analysis of population-based data in British Columbia, Canada	39
Reaching the unheard: overcoming challenges in health research with hard-to-reach populations	39
Maternal social determinants of health: the hidden face of perinatal mortality in Mexico	39
Saying and doing are different things: a scoping review on how health equity is conceptualized when considering healthcare system performance	39
Utilising quantitative methods to study the intersectionality of multiple social disadvantages in women with common mental disorders: a systematic review	38
Regional disparities and influencing factors of high quality medical resources distribution in China	37
Feminism, gender medicine and beyond: a feminist analysis of "gender medicine"	36

A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States	36
Temporal trends in inequalities of the burden of cardiovascular disease across 186 countries and territories	35
Influence of health food literacy on willingness to pay for healthier foods: focus on food insecurity	34
Intrinsic capacity trajectories and socioeconomic inequalities in health: the contributions of wealth, education, gender, and ethnicity	33
Social and structural determinants of emergency department use among Arab and Jewish patients in Jerusalem	32
Is universal health coverage really better? Unintended consequences of the 2019 Amendment of the National Health Insurance Act for humanitarian sojourners in South Korea	31