OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Health Action is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual and reproductive health literacy among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence synthesis and implications	54
Global Financing Facility investments for vulnerable populations: content analysis regarding maternal and newborn health and stillbirths in 11 African countries, 2015 to 2019	46
Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country	43
Quality of active case-finding for tuberculosis in India: a national level secondary data analysis	37
Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis	35
Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 2021	33
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	29
Understanding why oral health professionals migrate: A qualitative investigation of Iranian dentists who have moved to Canada (Oral health professionals’ migration)	28
“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	27
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	26
Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States	23
Patient perspectives on group problem management plus for adults with major depressive disorder in rural Malawi	23
Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review	21
Validation of the Child Development Card (KKA) as a growth and development tool for stunted and normal children in West Java, Indonesia	21
Applying a multi-layered, mixed methods approach to evaluate technology and workforce interventions in Kenyan neonatal units	21
“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria	20
Developing capacity in identifying cost-effective interventions to prevent and reduce obesity in China	19
Public health system response to emerging infectious respiratory outbreaks in Iran	19
Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda: a community-based prospective cohort study	18
There is no right time for accountability for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health	18
Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases: case study of the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone	18
Livelihood dynamics and challenges to wellbeing in the drylands of rural East Africa – the Drylands Transform study population in the Karamoja border region	18
Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis	18
Preparedness for treating injured patients at a single-centre trauma hospital in Ethiopia: a qualitative study	17
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 questi	17

Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in maternity hospitals of the Latin American and Caribbean network - Red CLAP: study protocol	17
Modern slavery and labor exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual model	17
Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study	17
Building a ‘Virtual Library’: continuing a global collaboration to strengthen research capacity within Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries	17
Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth: literature review and qualitative research	16
Facilitators and barriers to anemia prevention in the urban government childcare program for infants and young children in Peru	16
Integrating environmental sustainability into the teaching of global health ethics from a students’ perspective: new guiding questions	15
The new administration in the USA: impact of policy changes in development assistance on low- and middle-income countries, with the example of Nepal	14
Global public health policies: gathering public health associations’ perspectives	14
“We don’t trust all data coming from all facilities”: factors influencing the quality of care network data quality in Ethiopia	14
Hospital referral patterns amongst older adults in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study	14
Disability inclusion in the Brazilian health system: results of a health system assessment	14
The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios	14
The escalating health crisis in Gaza amidst armed conflict and heatwaves	13
Preconception care practices among primary health care nurses working in public health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal	13
Comparison of a palm-based biometric solution with a name-based identification system in rural Bangladesh	13
Should disability-inclusive health be a priority in low-income countries? A case-study from Zimbabwe	13
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	13
Exploring approaches to weighting estimates of facility readiness to provide health services used for estimating input-adjusted effective coverage: a case study using data from Tanzania	13
Implementation and evaluation of a family planning intervention engaging mothers-in-law of young women in India: a mixed methods pilot study	13
Psychological distress 35 years after the Chornobyl accident in the Lithuanian clean-up workers	13
Effects of decentralization on the functionality of health facility governing committees in lower and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	12
Strategies to increase rural maternal utilization of skilled health personnel for childbirth delivery in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review	12
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru	12
HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Sweden. A cross-sectional study concerning interest to use HIV self-tests	12
Starting then stopping: a nationwide register-based study on the magnitude, predictors, and urban-rural patterns of under-vaccination variation across health centers in The Gambia	12
Community-based hearing aid fitting model for adults in low-income communities facilitated by community health workers: a feasibility study	11
Behavioural and emotional comorbidities in school-aged children with neurological conditions in Kilifi, Kenya, and their long-term consequences	11
Disease burden comparison and associated risk factors of early- and late-onset neonatal sepsis in China and the USA, 1990–2019	11
Validating a modified instrument for measuring Demand-Control-Support among students at a large university in southern Sweden	11
Causes of death among older children and adolescents (5–19 years) in the Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance Study, Tanzania, 1995–2022	11
‘Condoms are hard to get by’: access to HIV prevention methods during lockdown of the COVID-19 epidemic in eastern Zimbabwe	11
The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) diabetes project: study design for a quantitative survey of diabetes prevalence and non-communicable disease risk in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana	11
Stakeholder views on the implementation of the UK’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) National Action Plan (2019–2024) in relation to AMR in the environment	11
Navigating power, participation, and priorities: critical reflections for Global Financing Facility new strategy	11
Social inequalities in social-emotional problems among preschool children: a population-based study in Sweden	10
The role of community health workers in influencing social connectedness using the household model: a qualitative case study from Malawi	10
Do cash or digital payment modalities affect community health worker performance? – a case study of a remote refugee settlement in Western Uganda	10
Overweight and obesity trends and associated factors among reproductive women in Ethiopia	10
Mental health and substance use among international migrant workers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Two decades of research capacity strengthening and reciprocal learning on sexual and reproductive health in East Africa – a point of (no) return	10
Using maternal sepsis patient journeys to map and prioritise barriers to quality maternal healthcare in Malawi: a multidisciplinary stakeholder consultation workshop	9
Spatio-temporal patterns of health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in Volta region, Ghana: a repeated cross-sectional ecological study using health facility d	9
The legacy of ZikaPLAN: a transnational research consortium addressing Zika	9
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking: the need for responding with a gendered lens	9
A decade of designing and implementing electronic health records in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	9
Women’s exposure to intimate partner violence and its association with child stunting: findings from a population-based study in rural Rwanda	9
Beyond supply and demand: a new ecological framework for understanding the access of young migrants to sexual and reproductive health services in Sweden	9
Tuberculosis treatment and resulting abnormal blood glucose: a scoping review of studies from 1981 - 2021	9
The perception of air pollution and its health risk: a scoping review of measures and methods	9

Interactive effects of atmospheric oxidising pollutants and heat waves on the risk of residential mortality	9
Understanding women’s decision-making process for birth location in Tanzania based on individual women’s reproductive pathways: a life-course perspective	9
Implementation matters: program impact pathway analysis of four sectoral nutrition-sensitive interventions in Anambra and Kebbi states, Nigeria	9
Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in First Nations peoples: a systematic review	8
Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis	8
Evaluation of care and clinical outcomes after the implementation of an electronic medical record system for type 1 diabetes management in Rwanda	8
The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis	8
Building coherent monitoring and evaluation plans with the Evaluation Planning Tool for global health	8
Rwanda’s success in advancing midwifery education: a blueprint of a sustainable, nationally driven curriculum standardization	8
Optimizing healthcare for blood donors at risk of transfusion-transmissible infections: pre-implementation mixed methods protocol	8
Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence	8
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	8
Spatial disparities in impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi	8
‘If her body responds then you know she wants it’: a qualitative study on how young people in Ecuador and Uganda understand and practice consent	8
Spatial epidemiology of dengue and chikungunya in Karnataka using GIS-based analysis	8
Community-based follow-up of very low birth weight neonates discharged from a regional hospital in Cape Town: a descriptive study	8
Strengthening effectiveness evaluations to improve programs for women, children and adolescents	8
Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: a cross-sectional study	8
Provider and client perspectives on the use of maternity waiting homes in rural Rwanda	8
Any better? A follow-up content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health inclusion in Global Financing Facility country planning documents	7
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 Co	7
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care and factors associated with care disruption in Kenya and Tanzania	7
Childhood undernutrition in North Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	7
A life in death: reflections of Peter	7
Feasibility and impact of a patient support group care model on diabetes and hypertension care in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: a quasi-experimental study	7
Examining health equity in Nepal’s climate change and health policies through the lens of environmental justice: insights from a content analysis	7
Low body mass index as a predictor of sputum culture conversion and treatment outcomes among patients receiving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lesotho	7
Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	7
Role of actor networks in primary health care implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	7
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health in South Africa	7
Applying the photovoice method with adolescents in mining areas in rural Mozambique: critical reflections and lessons learned	7
Determinants of outpatient healthcare-seeking behaviors among the rural poor affected by chronic conditions in India: a population-based cross-sectional study in seven states	7
Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health	7
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-5	7
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol	7
Use of mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19: phone access and participation rates, in Rakai, Uganda	7
Community engagement to support public health: mixed-method evaluation evidence on COVID-19 attitudes and practices in Lao PDR	7
Improving WASH facilities and practices in Bangladeshi schools: progress and challenges from 2014 to 2018	7
Research capacity-building of midwives expanding access to safe abortion in the Democratic Republic of Congo: transnational research collaborations with civil society organizations	6
‘I was in need of somewhere to release my hurt:’ Addressing the mental health of vulnerable adolescent mothers in Harare, Zimbabwe, through self-help groups	6
Should all pregnant women take calcium supplements in Nepal? GRADE evidence to policy assessment	6
Understanding the meanings of male partner support in the adherence to therapy among HIV-positive women: a gender analysis	6
Client satisfaction with antiretroviral treatment services in South Ethiopian public health facilities: an institution-based cross-sectional survey	6
Improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a message co-design process for a national mHealth intervention in Colombia	6
Exploring multisectoral collaboration in implementing comprehensive sexuality education framework at the provincial level in Zambia: a qualitative study	6
Strengthening teamwork and respect (STAR) in maternity units: developing a health system intervention in South Africa	6
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	6
Development and validation of a prognosis risk score model for neonatal mortality in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A prospective cohort study	6
Governance systems for skilled health worker migration, their public value and competing priorities: an interpretive scoping review	6
Perceptions of child death in Jigawa State, Nigeria: a mixed-methods study on how sociocultural nuances shape paediatric mortality reporting	6
A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action	6
The experiences and challenges of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change programming in Africa: a scoping review	6
Awareness of postpartum depression among midwives and pregnant women in Arkhangelsk, Arctic Russia	6
Assessment of adherence to the National Malaria Guidelines in treatment management of malaria among children under five in integrated community case management in the DRC	6
The Health Innovation Impact Checklist: a tool to improve the development and reporting of impact models for global health innovations	6
Community engagement to develop a dialogue-drama on adolescent pregnancy in a marginalised migrant population on the Thailand-Myanmar border: an ethnographic approach to participatory action research	6