OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal for Equity in Health is 36. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives	404
A systematic review of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19	215
A model of disparities: risk factors associated with COVID-19 infection	200
Unspoken inequality: how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa	106
The safety of health care for ethnic minority patients: a systematic review	93
Urban poverty and nutrition challenges associated with accessibility to a healthy diet: a global systematic literature review	92
Race, socioeconomic deprivation, and hospitalization for COVID-19 in English participants of a national biobank	78
A hidden side of the COVID-19 pandemic in children: the double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition	77
The effect of COVID-19 on maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) services in Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Africa: call for a contextualised pandemic response in LMICs	76
Income-related health inequalities associated with the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa: A decomposition analysis	67
A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States	66
Assessing healthcare access using the Levesque’s conceptual framework– a scoping review	60
Impact of breastfeeding interventions among United States minority women on breastfeeding outcomes: a systematic review	56
Hierarchical two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method: measuring the spatial accessibility to hierarchical healthcare facilities in Shenzhen, China	55
Breastfeeding at the workplace: a systematic review of interventions to improve workplace environments to facilitate breastfeeding among working women	55
Mobile health clinics in the United States	54
Inequality in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine: a systematic review	54
Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations	54
The challenges facing indigenous communities in Latin America as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Mobile health clinic model in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and opportunities for policy changes and innovation	51
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises	51
Equity and efficiency of health care resource allocation in Jiangsu Province, China	51
Socioeconomic inequalities in primary-care and specialist physician visits: a systematic review	50
Disability inclusiveness of government responses to COVID-19 in South America: a framework analysis study	49
Coronavirus disease 19 in minority populations of Newark, New Jersey	48

Barriers to access and organization of primary health care services for rural riverside populations in the Amazon	46
One country, two crises: what Covid-19 reveals about health inequalities among BAME communities in the United Kingdom and the sustainability of its health system?	44
Gender disparities in clinical practice: are there any solutions? Scoping review of interventions to overcome or reduce gender bias in clinical practice	44
The convergence of racial and income disparities in health insurance coverage in the United States	44
Factors associated with cervical cancer screening participation among migrant women in Europe: a scoping review	43
Understanding inequities in health and health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: a thematic series	41
Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	40
Community engagement interventions for communicable disease control in low- and lower- middle-income countries: evidence from a review of systematic reviews	40
Improving public hospital efficiency and fiscal space implications: the case of Mauritius	39
Why do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America	38
Maternal education and equity in breastfeeding: trends and patterns in 81 low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2019	38
Health, income and poverty: evidence from China’s rural household survey	36
Promoting the health of refugee women: a scoping literature review incorporating the social ecological model	36
Iran health insurance system in transition: equity concerns and steps to achieve universal health coverage	36
Inequalities in access to water and soap matter for the COVID-19 response in sub-Saharan Africa	36