OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population Health Metrics is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities	80
MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing	55
Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide	31
NPR is an independent risk factor for predicting all-cause mortality in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: evidence from NHANES 2007–2020	28
Socio-economic contextual determinants and behavioral changes during pregnancy: evidence from the "MAMI-MED" cohort	22
Living arrangements and lonely life expectancy: a multistate life table based on Markov chains	21
Associations of socioeconomic status and healthy lifestyle with incident early-onset and late-onset hypertension: a nationwide prospective cohort study in the UK	18
Correction to: How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	16
Building a maternal and child cohort amidst Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse: preliminary results and navigating research challenges	15
The joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health	15
Automatic electronic reporting improved the completeness of AMI and stroke incident surveillance in Tianjin, China: a modeling study	12
Quantifying the magnitude of the general contextual effect in a multilevel study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ontario, Canada: application of the median rate ratio in population health research	11
Harmonizing measurements: establishing a common metric via shared items across instruments	11
Google trend analysis of the Indian population reveals a panel of seasonally sensitive comorbid symptoms with implications for monitoring the seasonally sensitive human population	11
On the measurement of healthy lifespan inequality	10
Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis	9
The rural mortality penalty in U.S. hospital patients with COVID-19	9
Navigating the next surge: a perspective on Egypt’s preparedness and prospects for another COVID-19 outbreak	9
Applying an ICD-10 to ICD-11 mapping tool to identify causes of death codes in an Alberta dataset	8
Flexible parametric methods for calculating life expectancy in small populations	8
Estimates of non-communicable disease expenditure by disease phase, sex, and age group for all OECD countries	7
Forecasting life expectancy in São Paulo City, Brazil, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Analysis of multimorbidity compression using a latent variable in a mixed mixture model	7
Population health and population health metrics	7
Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa	6

Validation of the consumer health activation index (CHAI) among community-dwelling adults in primary care clinics in Singapore	6
Addressing missing values in routine health information system data: an evaluation of imputation methods using data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)	6
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China	5
Correction to: A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	5
Characteristics of hemoglobin distributions in preschool children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age and their implications for establishing quality control criteria for hemoglobin data in fie	5
The fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD): a person-centred measure of cancer burden	4
Prevalence of mental illness, substance use disorder, and dual diagnosis among adults in custody	4
Disability weight measurement for the severity of different diseases in Wuhan, China	4
The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model	4
Trends and patterns of disparities in diabetes and chronic kidney disease mortality among US counties, 1980–2014	4
Socio-economic inequalities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 period in north-western Tanzania, 2018–2021	3
Using routine programmatic data to measure HIV incidence among pregnant women in Botswana	3
Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse	3
Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table	3
Estimating district HIV prevalence in Zambia using small-area estimation methods (SAE)	3
Excess and reduced work absence during COVID-19 in Poland: insights from cause-specific time-series models	3
The quality of routine data for measuring facility-based maternal mortality in public and private health facilities in Kampala City, Uganda	3
Enabling the examination of long-term mortality trends by educational level for England and Wales in a time-consistent and internationally comparable manner	3
Correction to: Adapting and validating the log quadratic model to derive under-five age and cause-specific mortality (U5ACSM): a preliminary analysis	2
Improving the validity of estimates of mortality inequalities by education in England & Wales	2
Analytical reference framework to analyze non-COVID-19 events	2
Constructing synthetic populations in the age of big data	2
Methods used to construct disability indicators in linked administrative datasets: a systematic scoping review	2
Age and sex-specific disability-free life expectancy in urban and rural settings of Bangladesh	2
Measuring unequal distribution of pandemic severity across census years, variants of concern and interventions	2
When the technical is also normative: a critical assessment of measuring health inequalities using the concentration index-based indices	2
The confidante method to measure abortion: implementing a standardized comparative analysis approach across seven contexts	2
Beyond the underlying cause of death: an algorithm to study multi-morbidity at death	2
Quantifying the association of Life’s Crucial 9 with cardiovascular diseases among elderly hypertensive patients managed in primary care settings	2
Population age structure dependency of the excess mortality P-score	2
Health dynamics in war-torn Yemen: insights from 32 years of epidemiological data (1990–2021)	2
Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia	2
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality and life expectancy in northern Ghana: findings from the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System	2
Design, develop, and implement the strategic information system on health, dependence, and healthy aging: an analysis of the Mexican experience	2
The global prevalence of single-child families with emphasis on influential factors: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Disaggregated level child morbidity in Zambia: an application of small area estimation method	1
The effect of follow-up on the blood pressure control: a longitudinal study in rural areas of China	1
Country-specific determinants for COVID-19 case fatality rate and response strategies from a global perspective: an interpretable machine learning framework	1
The mediating role of family functioning between childhood adversity and adult Health- related risk behaviors: a moderated mediation analysis of generational gap in Chinese migrant workers	1
An innovative visual approach to the simultaneous study of two dimensions of progress in longevity: an application to French and German regions	1
Estimation and probabilistic projection of age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030	1
Patient-centred estimation of multimorbidity in chronic disease populations: a novel approach integrating global burden of disease metrics and healthcare administrative data	1
From raw data to a score: comparing quantitative methods that construct multi-level composite implementation strength scores of family planning programs in Malawi	1
Reducing inequalities using an unbiased machine learning approach to identify births with the highest risk of preventable neonatal deaths	1
A new method for estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories	1
Conflict-attributable mortality in Tigray Region, Ethiopia: Evidence from a survey of the Tigrayan diaspora	1
Decomposing the gaps in healthy and unhealthy life expectancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: a burden of disease and injury study	1
Comparing two data collection methods to track vital events in maternal and child health via community health workers in rural Nepal	1
A retrospective assessment of COVID-19 vulnerability index indicators and mortality rates pre-COVID-19 (2018–2020) and during COVID-19 (2020–2022) in a health and demographic surveillance site, Soweto	1

The impact of different imputation methods on estimates and model performance: an example using a risk prediction model for premature mortality	1
The role of education composition in shaping the burden of obesity and diabetes in Indonesia: a microsimulation-based projection study	1
Prevalence of unmet health care need in older adults in 83 countries: measuring progressing towards universal health coverage in the context of global population ageing	1
A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	1