OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Health Action is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the programme and behavior change theories of a community alcohol education intervention in rural Sri Lanka: a study protocol	34
Temperature effects on incidence of surgery for acute type A aortic dissection in the Nordics	24
Addressing the migrant gap: maternal healthcare perspectives on utilising prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Africa	23
“Recovering, not recovered” Hospital disaster resilience: a case-study from the 2015 earthquake in Nepal	22
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 trial	22
Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana: the CARE diabetes project qualitative study protocol	22
Provider and client perspectives on the use of maternity waiting homes in rural Rwanda	22
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, Uganda	20
The community support and its role in adolescent pregnancy and school reintegration in rural Rwanda: a mixed-methods study	20
Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 2021	19
Co-creation of a toolkit to assist risk communication and clinical decision-making in severe preeclampsia: SPOT-Impact study design	18
Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis	17
Adaptation and validation of the Children’s Surgical Assessment Tool for Rwandan district hospitals	17
A ‘training of trainers’ programme for operational research: increasing capacity remotely	16
Prevalence and social determinants of smoking among men in Mauritius: a cross-sectional study	15
Exploring parental knowledge, care-seeking, and support strategies for neonatal illness: an integrative review of the African Great Lakes region	14
Lessons from community engagement to improve COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment in Cochabamba, Bolivia	14
Rwanda’s success in advancing midwifery education: a blueprint of a sustainable, nationally driven curriculum standardization	14
Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review	14
Women’s empowerment as a determinant of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review focused on Nigeria	14
Global Financing Facility investments for vulnerable populations: content analysis regarding maternal and newborn health and stillbirths in 11 African countries, 2015 to 2019	14
Changes in the menstrual hygiene management facilities and usage among Bangladeshi school girls and its effect on school absenteeism from 2014 to 2018	13
Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States	12
Prevalence and associated factors for poor mental health among young migrants in Sweden: a cross-sectional study	12
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 survey	12

Towards optimising children’s capability and tackling relative child poverty in high-income countries: the cases of Japan, Sweden and the UK since 2000	11
Prioritising and mapping barriers to achieve equitable surgical care in South Africa: a multi-disciplinary stakeholder workshop	11
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 M	11
Refining circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making	11
Clinical decision-support for acute burn referral and triage at specialized centres – Contribution from routine and digital health tools	11
Quality of active case-finding for tuberculosis in India: a national level secondary data analysis	11
Self-management and self-efficacy of women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review	10
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, 2014–2016	10
A study protocol for developing a spatial vulnerability index for infectious diseases of poverty in the Caribbean region	9
Research priorities for improving menstrual health across the life-course in low- and middle-income countries	9
Understanding why oral health professionals migrate: A qualitative investigation of Iranian dentists who have moved to Canada (Oral health professionals’ migration)	9
Mitigating moral distress by enhancing healthcare workers’ understanding of challenges faced by carers of children with disabilities in low-resource settings in Kenya	9
Comparing AI and human-generated health messages in an Arabic cultural context	9
Evaluating the application of the 2009 Institute of Medicine gestational weight gain guidelines on pregnant Chinese women	9
Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: a cross-sectional study	9
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 Cong	9
Catalyzing action on HIV/SRH integration: lessons from Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe to spur investment	9
Achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 treatment target by 2025 in Ghana: a myth or a reality?	8
Growing debt burden in low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19 may constrain health financing	8
Improving disease surveillance data analysis, interpretation, and use at the district level in Tanzania	8
Depressive disorder at the household level: prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms among household members	8
The global failure of facing the pandemic	8
Mobilizing resources with an investment case to mitigate cross-border malaria transmission and achieve malaria elimination in South Africa	8
The influence of internship training experience on Kenyan and Ugandan doctors’ career intentions and decisions: a qualitative study	8
The impact of the Ebola epidemics on children’s rights: a scoping review	8
Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic: trends in development assistance committee countries’ aid allocation, 2011–2021	8
Mediating effects of women’s empowerment on dietary diversity during pregnancy in Central West Ethiopia: A structural equation modelling	8
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 Somaliland	8
Community engagement in health systems interventions and research in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches	7
Building coherent monitoring and evaluation plans with the Evaluation Planning Tool for global health	7
Injury mortality in South Africa: a 2009 and 2017 comparison to track progress to meeting sustainable development goal targets	7
“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 Malawi	7
Resilience of research capacity strengthening initiatives in Africa during crises: the case of CARTA during COVID	7
Exploratory validation of relationship functioning and non-pregnant partner behavior scales in pregnant people living with HIV in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa	7
Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country	7
Sexual and reproductive health literacy among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence synthesis and implications	7
Long Covid requires a global response centred on equity and dialogue	7
Spatial disparities in impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi	7
The role of digital health in pandemic preparedness and response: securing global health?	7
Workplace violence against healthcare workers in Pakistan; call for action, if not now, then when? A systematic review	7
Assessing the effectiveness of a sexual and reproductive health and rights training programme in changing healthcare practitioners’ attitudes and practices in low-income countries	6
The role of non-governmental organizations in strengthening healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries: Lessons from Santé Diabète in Mali	6
Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in maternity hospitals of the Latin American and Caribbean network - Red CLAP: study protocol	6
Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis	6
Exploring healthcare workers’ experiences of managing patients returning to HIV care in Johannesburg, South Africa	6
Tobacco and electronic cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Vietnam between 2013 and 2019: prevalence and associated factors	6
Drivers of cardiovascular disease risk factors in slums in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study	6
Maternal mortality in the covid-19 pandemic: findings from a rapid systematic review	6
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 beverages	6
Supporting early-career women researchers: lessons from a global mentorship programme	6

Developing capacity in identifying cost-effective interventions to prevent and reduce obesity in China	6
Factors associated with TB screening among agricultural workers in Limpopo Province, South Africa	6
Rheumatic heart disease burden, trends, and inequalities in Asia, 1990–2019	6
HIV self-testing acceptability among injured persons seeking emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya	6
The missing middle of childhood	6
There is no right time for accountability for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health	5
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 areas	5
Strengthening effectiveness evaluations to improve programs for women, children and adolescents	5
Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis	5
Valid and reliable neonatal near-miss assessment scale in Ethiopia: a psychometric validation	5
Effect of community-level intervention on antenatal care attendance: a quasi-experimental study among postpartum women in Eastern Uganda	5
Neonatal outcomes according to different degrees of maternal morbidity: cross-sectional evidence from the Perinatal Information System (SIP) of the CLAP network	5
Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana	5
Irrational medicine use and its associated factors in conflict-affected areas in Mali: a cross-sectional study	5
Sustainable preventive integrated child health care: reflections on the importance of multidisciplinary and multisectoral stakeholder engagement	5
The relevance of music therapy in paediatric and adolescent cancer patients: a scoping review	5
NGO perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for real-world evaluation: a qualitative study	5
Estimation of cause-specific mortality in Rakai, Uganda, using verbal autopsy 1999-2019	5
Closing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction gap: an archetype analysis of last-mile countries	5
Trial-based economic evaluation of the system-integrated activation of community health volunteers in rural Ghana	5
Mortality patterns over a 10-year period in Kibera, an urban informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, 2009–2018	5
Designing and implementing equity-based pandemic preparedness and response learning modules: lessons from a multi-country short-course	5
Quality and resilience of clinical laboratories in Rwanda: a need for sustainable strategies	4
Implementation barriers and facilitators of Moyo foetal heart rate monitor during labour in public hospitals in Nepal	4
Ghanaian women’s experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) during group antenatal care: a brief report from a cluster randomised controlled trial	4
Similarities in socioeconomic disparities and inequalities in women’s nutritional status and health care in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Nigeria	4
Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution?	4
Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in First Nations peoples: a systematic review	4
The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis	4
Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda: a community-based prospective cohort study	4
Alleviating the public health burden of hypertension: debating precision prevention as a possible solution	4
Children’s exposure to unhealthy food advertising on Philippine television: content analysis of marketing strategies and temporal patterns	4
Level of elderly-supportive infrastructure, fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease hospitalisations: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Wuhan	4
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-	4
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol	4
Effectiveness of infrastructural interventions to improve access to safe drinking water in Latin America and the Caribbean on the burden of diarrhoea in children <5 years: a systematic literature r	4
Ten years of ear, nose and throat (ENT) services in Southern Africa: a scoping review	4
“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria	4
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 Peru	4