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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis	40
Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 2021	39
Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States	34
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	31
Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review	27
Global Financing Facility investments for vulnerable populations: content analysis regarding maternal and newborn health and stillbirths in 11 African countries, 2015 to 2019	26
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	24
Understanding why oral health professionals migrate: A qualitative investigation of Iranian dentists who have moved to Canada (Oral health professionals’ migration)	23
Quality of active case-finding for tuberculosis in India: a national level secondary data analysis	23
“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	23
Sexual and reproductive health literacy among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence synthesis and implications	21
Patient perspectives on group problem management plus for adults with major depressive disorder in rural Malawi	20
Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country	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
Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda: a community-based prospective cohort study	17
“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria	17
Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study	17
There is no right time for accountability for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health	16
Developing capacity in identifying cost-effective interventions to prevent and reduce obesity in China	16
Public health system response to emerging infectious respiratory outbreaks in Iran	15
Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in maternity hospitals of the Latin American and Caribbean network - Red CLAP: study protocol	15
Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis	15
The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios	15
Livelihood dynamics and challenges to wellbeing in the drylands of rural East Africa – the Drylands Transform study population in the Karamoja border region	15
Facilitators and barriers to anemia prevention in the urban government childcare program for infants and young children in Peru	14

“We don’t trust all data coming from all facilities”: factors influencing the quality of care network data quality in Ethiopia	14
Modern slavery and labor exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual model	14
Should disability-inclusive health be a priority in low-income countries? A case-study from Zimbabwe	14
Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth: literature review and qualitative research	13
Global public health policies: gathering public health associations’ perspectives	13
Psychological distress 35 years after the Chornobyl accident in the Lithuanian clean-up workers	13
Building a ‘Virtual Library’: continuing a global collaboration to strengthen research capacity within Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries	13
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	13
Integrating environmental sustainability into the teaching of global health ethics from a students’ perspective: new guiding questions	13
Strategies to increase rural maternal utilization of skilled health personnel for childbirth delivery in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review	12
Preconception care practices among primary health care nurses working in public health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal	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
Comparison of a palm-based biometric solution with a name-based identification system in rural Bangladesh	11
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	11
HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Sweden. A cross-sectional study concerning interest to use HIV self-tests	11
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	11
Disease burden comparison and associated risk factors of early- and late-onset neonatal sepsis in China and the USA, 1990–2019	11
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	11
Effects of decentralization on the functionality of health facility governing committees in lower and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	10
Validating a modified instrument for measuring Demand-Control-Support among students at a large university in southern Sweden	10
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru	10
Overweight and obesity trends and associated factors among reproductive women in Ethiopia	10
The role of community health workers in influencing social connectedness using the household model: a qualitative case study from Malawi	10
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	10
Two decades of research capacity strengthening and reciprocal learning on sexual and reproductive health in East Africa – a point of (no) return	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
The legacy of ZikaPLAN: a transnational research consortium addressing Zika	9
Tuberculosis treatment and resulting abnormal blood glucose: a scoping review of studies from 1981 - 2021	9
Behavioural and emotional comorbidities in school-aged children with neurological conditions in Kilifi, Kenya, and their long-term consequences	9
Do cash or digital payment modalities affect community health worker performance? – a case study of a remote refugee settlement in Western Uganda	9
A decade of designing and implementing electronic health records in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	9
The perception of air pollution and its health risk: a scoping review of measures and methods	9
Women’s exposure to intimate partner violence and its association with child stunting: findings from a population-based study in rural Rwanda	9
Using maternal sepsis patient journeys to map and prioritise barriers to quality maternal healthcare in Malawi: a multidisciplinary stakeholder consultation workshop	9
Interactive effects of atmospheric oxidising pollutants and heat waves on the risk of residential mortality	9
Social inequalities in social-emotional problems among preschool children: a population-based study in Sweden	9
Understanding women’s decision-making process for birth location in Tanzania based on individual women’s reproductive pathways: a life-course perspective	9
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking: the need for responding with a gendered lens	8
Provider and client perspectives on the use of maternity waiting homes in rural Rwanda	8
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol	8
The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis	8
Rwanda’s success in advancing midwifery education: a blueprint of a sustainable, nationally driven curriculum standardization	8
Spatial disparities in impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi	8
Evaluation of care and clinical outcomes after the implementation of an electronic medical record system for type 1 diabetes management in Rwanda	8
Building coherent monitoring and evaluation plans with the Evaluation Planning Tool for global health	8
Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: a cross-sectional study	8
Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence	8
Community-based follow-up of very low birth weight neonates discharged from a regional hospital in Cape Town: a descriptive study	8
Applying the photovoice method with adolescents in mining areas in rural Mozambique: critical reflections and lessons learned	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
Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in First Nations peoples: a systematic review	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
Improving WASH facilities and practices in Bangladeshi schools: progress and challenges from 2014 to 2018	7
Use of mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19: phone access and participation rates, in Rakai, Uganda	7
Strengthening effectiveness evaluations to improve programs for women, children and adolescents	7
Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis	7
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health in South Africa	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
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	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
Childhood undernutrition in North Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	6
A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action	6
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care and factors associated with care disruption in Kenya and Tanzania	6
Any better? A follow-up content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health inclusion in Global Financing Facility country planning documents	6
Awareness of postpartum depression among midwives and pregnant women in Arkhangelsk, Arctic Russia	6
The Health Innovation Impact Checklist: a tool to improve the development and reporting of impact models for global health innovations	6
Development and validation of a prognosis risk score model for neonatal mortality in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A prospective cohort study	6
Perceptions of child death in Jigawa State, Nigeria: a mixed-methods study on how sociocultural nuances shape paediatric mortality reporting	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
Examining health equity in Nepal’s climate change and health policies through the lens of environmental justice: insights from a content analysis	6
Community engagement to support public health: mixed-method evaluation evidence on COVID-19 attitudes and practices in Lao PDR	6
Role of actor networks in primary health care implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	6
Understanding the meanings of male partner support in the adherence to therapy among HIV-positive women: a gender analysis	6
Improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a message co-design process for a national mHealth intervention in Colombia	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
Should all pregnant women take calcium supplements in Nepal? GRADE evidence to policy assessment	6
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	6
Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	6
A life in death: reflections of Peter	6
Client satisfaction with antiretroviral treatment services in South Ethiopian public health facilities: an institution-based cross-sectional survey	6
The experiences and challenges of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change programming in Africa: a scoping review	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
Governance systems for skilled health worker migration, their public value and competing priorities: an interpretive scoping review	6