Global Health Action

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Health Action is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Workplace violence against healthcare workers in Pakistan; call for action, if not now, then when? A systematic review24
Evaluating the programme and behavior change theories of a community alcohol education intervention in rural Sri Lanka: a study protocol22
Spatial disparities in impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi19
Temperature effects on incidence of surgery for acute type A aortic dissection in the Nordics17
Mediating effects of women’s empowerment on dietary diversity during pregnancy in Central West Ethiopia: A structural equation modelling15
Community engagement in health systems interventions and research in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches15
Addressing the migrant gap: maternal healthcare perspectives on utilising prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Africa15
“Recovering, not recovered” Hospital disaster resilience: a case-study from the 2015 earthquake in Nepal14
The influence of internship training experience on Kenyan and Ugandan doctors’ career intentions and decisions: a qualitative study14
Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country13
Exploratory validation of relationship functioning and non-pregnant partner behavior scales in pregnant people living with HIV in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa13
Achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 treatment target by 2025 in Ghana: a myth or a reality?13
Quality of active case-finding for tuberculosis in India: a national level secondary data analysis12
Clinical decision-support for acute burn referral and triage at specialized centres – Contribution from routine and digital health tools12
Towards optimising children’s capability and tackling relative child poverty in high-income countries: the cases of Japan, Sweden and the UK since 200012
Sexual and reproductive health literacy among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence synthesis and implications12
Strategies for supporting the implementation of a task-shared psychological intervention in South Africa’s chronic disease services: qualitative insights from health managers’ experiences of project M11
Survival patterns of neonates born to adolescent mothers and the effect of pregnancy intentions and marital status on newborn survival in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, 2014–201611
Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic: trends in development assistance committee countries’ aid allocation, 2011–202111
Resilience of research capacity strengthening initiatives in Africa during crises: the case of CARTA during COVID10
Provider and client perspectives on the use of maternity waiting homes in rural Rwanda10
Prioritising and mapping barriers to achieve equitable surgical care in South Africa: a multi-disciplinary stakeholder workshop10
Refining circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making10
Evaluating the application of the 2009 Institute of Medicine gestational weight gain guidelines on pregnant Chinese women9
Understanding why oral health professionals migrate: A qualitative investigation of Iranian dentists who have moved to Canada (Oral health professionals’ migration)9
Catalyzing action on HIV/SRH integration: lessons from Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe to spur investment9
The implementation of infection prevention and control measures and health care utilisation in ACF-supported health facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Cong9
Improving disease surveillance data analysis, interpretation, and use at the district level in Tanzania9
Depressive disorder at the household level: prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms among household members9
Research priorities for improving menstrual health across the life-course in low- and middle-income countries9
Growing debt burden in low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19 may constrain health financing8
Self-management and self-efficacy of women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review8
Mobilizing resources with an investment case to mitigate cross-border malaria transmission and achieve malaria elimination in South Africa8
Long Covid requires a global response centred on equity and dialogue8
Effectiveness of peer-led education interventions on contraceptive use, unmet need, and demand among adolescent girls in Gedeo Zone, South Ethiopia. A cluster randomized controlled trial8
The impact of the Ebola epidemics on children’s rights: a scoping review8
The global failure of facing the pandemic8
A lack of reproductive agency in facility-based births makes home births a first choice regardless of potential risks and medical needs—a qualitative study among multiparous women in Somaliland7
Lessons from community engagement to improve COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment in Cochabamba, Bolivia7
“Arming half-baked people with weapons!” Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi7
Building coherent monitoring and evaluation plans with the Evaluation Planning Tool for global health7
The community support and its role in adolescent pregnancy and school reintegration in rural Rwanda: a mixed-methods study7
Injury mortality in South Africa: a 2009 and 2017 comparison to track progress to meeting sustainable development goal targets7
Prevalence and social determinants of smoking among men in Mauritius: a cross-sectional study7
How interventions to maintain services during the COVID-19 pandemic strengthened systems for delivery of maternal and child health services: a case-study of Wakiso District, Uganda7
Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 20217
Adaptation and validation of the Children’s Surgical Assessment Tool for Rwandan district hospitals6
Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review6
Changes in the menstrual hygiene management facilities and usage among Bangladeshi school girls and its effect on school absenteeism from 2014 to 20186
Cluster analysis of social determinants of health and HIV/AIDS knowledge among Peruvian youths using Kohonen’s self-organized maps: a data-exploration study based on a Demographic and health survey6
HIV self-testing acceptability among injured persons seeking emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya6
Co-creation of a toolkit to assist risk communication and clinical decision-making in severe preeclampsia: SPOT-Impact study design6
A ‘training of trainers’ programme for operational research: increasing capacity remotely6
Women’s empowerment as a determinant of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review focused on Nigeria6
Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States6
The role of digital health in pandemic preparedness and response: securing global health?6
Exploring healthcare workers’ experiences of managing patients returning to HIV care in Johannesburg, South Africa6
Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis6
Global Financing Facility investments for vulnerable populations: content analysis regarding maternal and newborn health and stillbirths in 11 African countries, 2015 to 20196
Rwanda’s success in advancing midwifery education: a blueprint of a sustainable, nationally driven curriculum standardization6
Prevalence and associated factors for poor mental health among young migrants in Sweden: a cross-sectional study6
Assessing the effectiveness of a sexual and reproductive health and rights training programme in changing healthcare practitioners’ attitudes and practices in low-income countries6
Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana: the CARE diabetes project qualitative study protocol6
Neonatal outcomes according to different degrees of maternal morbidity: cross-sectional evidence from the Perinatal Information System (SIP) of the CLAP network5
Medical educators’ perspectives on the barriers and enablers of teaching public health in the undergraduate medical schools: a systematic review5
Strengthening effectiveness evaluations to improve programs for women, children and adolescents5
The role of non-governmental organizations in strengthening healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries: Lessons from Santé Diabète in Mali5
Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in maternity hospitals of the Latin American and Caribbean network - Red CLAP: study protocol5
Mortality patterns over a 10-year period in Kibera, an urban informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, 2009–20185
Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis5
There is no right time for accountability for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health5
Trial-based economic evaluation of the system-integrated activation of community health volunteers in rural Ghana5
Models using private general practitioners to provide caesarean deliveries at five South African district public hospitals: insights for public-private contracting for obstetric care in rural areas5
The state of surgery, obstetrics, trauma, and anaesthesia care in Ghana: a narrative review5
Supporting early-career women researchers: lessons from a global mentorship programme5
Barriers and strategies needed to improve maternal health services among pregnant adolescents in Uganda: a qualitative study5
Rheumatic heart disease burden, trends, and inequalities in Asia, 1990–20194
Drivers of cardiovascular disease risk factors in slums in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study4
Maternal mortality in the covid-19 pandemic: findings from a rapid systematic review4
Tobacco and electronic cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Vietnam between 2013 and 2019: prevalence and associated factors4
The missing middle of childhood4
Design and pilot evaluation of a brief intervention to reduce transphobia and improve attitudes of government officials to address legal gender affirmation needs of transgender people in Peru4
NGO perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for real-world evaluation: a qualitative study4
Factors associated with TB screening among agricultural workers in Limpopo Province, South Africa4
Factors associated with cessation of smoking in health professionals: a scoping review4
Valid and reliable neonatal near-miss assessment scale in Ethiopia: a psychometric validation4
Effect of community-level intervention on antenatal care attendance: a quasi-experimental study among postpartum women in Eastern Uganda4
Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana4
Closing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction gap: an archetype analysis of last-mile countries4
Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis4
Designing and implementing equity-based pandemic preparedness and response learning modules: lessons from a multi-country short-course4
Fiscal policies and regulations for healthy diets in Sri Lanka: an analysis of the political economy of taxation and traffic light labelling for sugar-sweetened beverages4
Sustainable preventive integrated child health care: reflections on the importance of multidisciplinary and multisectoral stakeholder engagement4
The relevance of music therapy in paediatric and adolescent cancer patients: a scoping review4
Similarities in socioeconomic disparities and inequalities in women’s nutritional status and health care in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Nigeria4
Level of elderly-supportive infrastructure, fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease hospitalisations: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Wuhan3
Geographic accessibility to childhood tuberculosis care in Pakistan3
Despite antiretroviral therapy (ART) rollout, most cases of tuberculosis among people with HIV in Adama, Ethiopia, occur before ART initiation3
Population mobility : spatial spillover effect of government health expenditure in China3
Electronic health record and primary care physician self-reported quality of care: a multilevel study in China3
Implementation barriers and facilitators of Moyo foetal heart rate monitor during labour in public hospitals in Nepal3
Coping with ill-health while lacking access to health care: Acceptability of health service provision in rural Malawi – a qualitative study3
Feasibility and acceptability of peer-delivered interventions using mHealth for PrEP services among adolescent girls and young women in DREAMS program in Botswana3
Changes in self-reported risky sexual behaviour indicators among adults receiving regular risk reduction counselling and optional initiation of pre-exposure prophylaxis in an HIV vaccine preparedness 3
The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis3
Building a ‘Virtual Library’: continuing a global collaboration to strengthen research capacity within Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries3
“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria3
A life in death: reflections of Peter3
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol3
The international humanitarian response to famine in Tigray, Ethiopia:lessons from the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-19703
Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in First Nations peoples: a systematic review3
Workshop-based learning and networking: a scalable model for research capacity strengthening in low- and middle-income countries3
Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases: case study of the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone3
Estimation of cause-specific mortality in Rakai, Uganda, using verbal autopsy 1999-20193
Alleviating the public health burden of hypertension: debating precision prevention as a possible solution3
What to scale first? A cross-sectional analysis of factors affecting cesarean delivery rates at first referral units in Bihar, India3
Childhood undernutrition in North Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies3
Geographic and socioeconomic inequities in cesarean delivery rates at the district level in Madhya Pradesh, India: A secondary analysis of the national family health survey-53
Consensus-based recommendations for strengthening emergency care at primary health care level: a Delphi study3
Quality and resilience of clinical laboratories in Rwanda: a need for sustainable strategies3
“We don’t trust all data coming from all facilities”: factors influencing the quality of care network data quality in Ethiopia3
Methodology for adapting a co-created early childhood development intervention and implementation strategies for use by frontline workers in India and Guatemala: a systematic application of the FRAME-3
The midwife’s role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: protect and invest together – the Swedish example3
Ten years of ear, nose and throat (ENT) services in Southern Africa: a scoping review3
Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth: literature review and qualitative research3
Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence3
Cash transfer, maternal and child health outcomes: a scoping review in sub-Saharan Africa3
Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study3
Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution?3
Should disability-inclusive health be a priority in low-income countries? A case-study from Zimbabwe3
Generalisability of and lessons learned from a mixed-methods study conducted in three low- and middle-income countries to identify care pathways for atrial fibrillation3
Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review3
Beyond buzzwords: fostering interdisciplinary and collaborative global health research in Germany and beyond3
Essential newborn care practices for healthy newborns at a district hospital in Pemba, Tanzania: a cross-sectional observational study utilizing video recordings3
Ghanaian women’s experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) during group antenatal care: a brief report from a cluster randomised controlled trial3
E-Questionnaire on health knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP-Health) for Brazilian students in distance learning3
Children’s exposure to unhealthy food advertising on Philippine television: content analysis of marketing strategies and temporal patterns3
Maintaining HIV testing and treatment services in Zambia during COVID-19: a story of success and resilience3
Modern slavery and labor exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual model2
Colonization and decolonization of global health: which way forward?2
Preconception care practices among primary health care nurses working in public health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal2
Health-related quality of life among adult patients with cancer in Uganda – a cross-sectional study2
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care and factors associated with care disruption in Kenya and Tanzania2
Examining health equity in Nepal’s climate change and health policies through the lens of environmental justice: insights from a content analysis2
Role of actor networks in primary health care implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review2
Successful task shifting: a mixed-methods cross-sectional evaluation of an emergency obstetric care program to increase access to cesarean sections in rural Nepal2
Global child health in higher education in Germany: a mixed-methods study2
Integrating the United Nations sustainable development goals into higher education globally: a scoping review2
Neonatal resuscitation in Eastern Africa: health care providers' level of knowledge and its determinants. A systematic review and meta-analysis2
Development and assessment of novel virtual COVID-19 trainer-of trainers course implemented by an academic–humanitarian partnership2
­­Eleven tips for operational researchers working with health programmes: our experience based on implementing differentiated tuberculosis care in south India2
Alcohol consumption and allergic diseases: Mendelian randomization evidence from China2
Training program for female community volunteers to combat COVID 19 in rural Nepal2
Socioeconomic disparities in the burden of hypertension among Indonesian adults - a multilevel analysis2
Misinformation, infighting, backlash, and an ‘endless’ recovery; policymakers recount challenges and mitigating measures after a vaccine scare in the Philippines2
Mental health and disability research priorities and capacity needs in Ghana: findings from a rapid review and research priority ranking survey2
Recruiting hard-to-reach populations via respondent driven sampling for mobile phone surveys in Colombia: a qualitative study2
Factors affecting private sector engagement in achieving universal health coverage: a scoping review2
Use of mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19: phone access and participation rates, in Rakai, Uganda2
Global public health policies: gathering public health associations’ perspectives2
Applying the photovoice method with adolescents in mining areas in rural Mozambique: critical reflections and lessons learned2
Estimating non-communicable disease treatment costs using probability-based cost estimation2
Utilization of telehealth services in low- and middle-income countries amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative summary2
Four analysis moments for fuzzy cognitive mapping in participatory research2
Public policies to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior: a narrative synthesis of “reviews of reviews”2
I am happy to be listened to’ : co-creation of a simple tool to measure women’s experiences of respectful maternity care in urban Tanzania2
The association between alcohol consumption and intimate partner violence in young male perpetrators in Mwanza, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study2
Perspectives on delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services to young people: focus group discussions with civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of Co2
Assessing changes in adolescent girls’ and young women’s sexual and reproductive health service utilisation following a COVID-19 lockdown in eSwatini2
Measuring the quality of mental health services from the patient perspective in China: psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the World Health Organization responsiveness performance questi2
Improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a message co-design process for a national mHealth intervention in Colombia2
Low body mass index as a predictor of sputum culture conversion and treatment outcomes among patients receiving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lesotho2
A framework for chronic care quality: results of a scoping review and Delphi survey2
What is successful integration in primary health care: qualitative insights from the Chinese public2
Implementation of a three-pillar training intervention to improve maternal and neonatal healthcare in the Democratic Republic Of Congo: a process evaluation study in an urban health zone2
Any better? A follow-up content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health inclusion in Global Financing Facility country planning documents2
Lessons from community participation in primary health care and water resource governance in South Africa: a narrative review2
Beyond top-down: community co-creation approaches for sustainable dengue vector control2
Should all pregnant women take calcium supplements in Nepal? GRADE evidence to policy assessment2
Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health2
Barriers and recommendations for colorectal cancer screening in Africa2
The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios2
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health in South Africa2
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