OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conflict and Health is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 control in low-income settings and displaced populations: what can realistically be done?	102
Violence against healthcare in conflict: a systematic review of the literature and agenda for future research	39
No implementation without cultural adaptation: a process for culturally adapting low-intensity psychological interventions in humanitarian settings	38
Addressing COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: a call to action	32
Impact of conflict on maternal and child health service delivery: a country case study of Afghanistan	32
The intergenerational impact of war on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing: lessons from the longitudinal study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone	29
The impact of armed conflict on utilisation of health services in north-west Syria: an observational study	29
Conflict and COVID-19: a double burden for Afghanistan’s healthcare system	29
Systematic review of factors associated with quality of life of asylum seekers and refugees in high-income countries	28
Challenges of providing healthcare worker education and training in protracted conflict: a focus on non-government controlled areas in north west Syria	28
Responding to health needs of women, children and adolescents within Syria during conflict: intervention coverage, challenges and adaptations	27
Exploring resource scarcity and contextual influences on wellbeing among young refugees in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda: findings from a qualitative study	26
COVID-19 and multiple crises in Afghanistan: an urgent battle	26
Vulnerability of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to COVID-19: quantitative insights	26
Factors predicting symptoms of somatization, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, self-rated mental and physical health among recently arrived refugees in Germany	26
Systematic human rights violations, traumatic events, daily stressors and mental health of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh	25
Improving mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in humanitarian settings: reflections on research funded through R2HC	25
Understanding the factors affecting the humanitarian health and nutrition response for women and children in Somalia since 2000: a case study	24
Child marriage practices among the Rohingya in Bangladesh	23
The relationship between armed conflict and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition status and services in northeastern Nigeria: a mixed-methods case study	22
Lockdowns, lives and livelihoods: the impact of COVID-19 and public health responses to conflict affected populations - a remote qualitative study in Baidoa and Mogadishu, Somalia	22
Escaping the past and living in the present: a qualitative exploration of substance use among Syrian male refugees in Germany	22
Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health service delivery during conflict in Yemen: a case study	22
Health services for women, children and adolescents in conflict affected settings: experience from North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo	21
In the era of humanitarian crisis, young women continue to die in childbirth in Mali	20

Quality in crisis: a systematic review of the quality of health systems in humanitarian settings	19
Challenges and opportunities for infection prevention and control in hospitals in conflict-affected settings: a qualitative study	19
Measuring the psychosocial, biological, and cognitive signatures of profound stress in humanitarian settings: impacts, challenges, and strategies in the field	19
Exploring the mental health and psychosocial problems of Congolese refugees living in refugee settings in Rwanda and Uganda: a rapid qualitative study	19
Children at risk: A nation-wide, cross-sectional study examining post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden between 2014 and 2018	18
I don't leave my people; They need me: Qualitative research of local health care professionals' working motivations in Syria	18
Dynamics of non-communicable disease prevention, diagnosis and control in Lebanon, a fragile setting	17
COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: documenting and sharing context-specific programmatic experiences	17
Maternal and child health service delivery in conflict-affected settings: a case study example from Upper Nile and Unity states, South Sudan	17
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of Rohingya refugees with pre-existing health problems in Bangladesh	17
Innovative strategies for providing menstruation-supportive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities: learning from refugee camps in Cox’s bazar, Bangladesh	17
A social ecological approach to understanding service utilization barriers among male survivors of sexual violence in three refugee settings: a qualitative exploratory study	17
Investigating the delivery of health and nutrition interventions for women and children in conflict settings: a collection of case studies from the BRANCH Consortium	17
Health in conflict and post-conflict settings: reproductive, maternal and child health in Colombia	17
Operational considerations for the management of non-communicable diseases in humanitarian emergencies	17
Contextual factors associated with depression among urban refugee and displaced youth in Kampala, Uganda: findings from a cross-sectional study	16
Humanitarian led community-based surveillance: case study in Ekondo-titi, Cameroon	16
Factors impacting antenatal care utilization: a systematic review of 37 fragile and conflict-affected situations	16
Challenges and strategies in conducting sexual and reproductive health research among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	15
Health-related quality of life of refugees: a systematic review of studies using the WHOQOL-Bref instrument in general and clinical refugee populations in the community setting	15
Distribution of hygiene kits during a cholera outbreak in Kasaï-Oriental, Democratic Republic of Congo: a process evaluation	14
Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016	14
Research ethics and refugee health: a review of reported considerations and applications in published refugee health literature, 2015-2018	13
Lay-delivered talk therapies for adults affected by humanitarian crises in low- and middle-income countries	13
Assessing the capacity for conflict and health research in Lebanon: a qualitative study	13
Complex emergencies and the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases in Africa: developing a practical approach for implementing safe and effective mapping and intervention strategies	13
“Having more women humanitarian leaders will help transform the humanitarian system”: challenges and opportunities for women leaders in conflict and humanitarian health	13
Gender-based violence (GBV) coordination in humanitarian and public health emergencies: a scoping review	13
Introduction to collection: confronting the challenges of health research in humanitarian crises	12
Conducting operational research in humanitarian settings: is there a shared path for humanitarians, national public health authorities and academics?	12
“To die is better for me”, social suffering among Syrian refugees at a noncommunicable disease clinic in Jordan: a qualitative study	12
Addressing recall bias in (post-)conflict data collection and analysis: lessons from a large-scale health survey in Colombia	12
Mobile clinics in conflict-affected communities of North West and South West regions of Cameroon: an alternative option for differentiated delivery service for internally displaced persons during COVI	12
Cancer among syrian refugees living in Konya Province, Turkey	12
Impact of conflict on maternal and child health service delivery – how and how not: a country case study of conflict affected areas of Pakistan	12
Setting research priorities for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian settings	12
Priorities for addressing substance use disorder in humanitarian settings	11
Displacement-related factors influencing marital practices and associated intimate partner violence risk among Somali refugees in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia: a qualitative study	11
‘We need someone to deliver our voices’: reflections from conducting remote qualitative research in Syria	11
Experiences of armed conflicts and forced migration among women from countries in the Middle East, Balkans, and Africa: a systematic review of qualitative studies	11
The impact of interventions to reduce risk and incidence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict states and other humanitarian crises in low and middle income co	11
Improving diabetes control for Syrian refugees in Jordan: a longitudinal cohort study comparing the effects of cash transfers and health education interventions	11
Challenges to the implementation and adoption of physical distancing measures against COVID-19 by internally displaced people in Mali: a qualitative study	11
Shifting to Tele-Mental Health in humanitarian and crisis settings: an evaluation of Médecins Sans Frontières experience during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Conflict-related health research in Syria, 2011–2019: a scoping review for The Lancet - AUB Commission on Syria	10
Resilience of health systems in conflict affected governorates of Iraq, 2014–2018	10
C’est vraiment compliqué: a case study on the delivery of maternal and child health and nutrition interventions in the conflict-affected regions of Mali	10
Intimate partner violence against women on the Colombia Ecuador border: a mixed-methods analysis of the liminal migrant experience	10
The socioeconomic burden of antibiotic resistance in conflict-affected settings and refugee hosting countries: a systematic scoping review	10
Working short and working long: can primary healthcare be protected as a public good in Lebanon today?	10

A systematic literature review of the ethics of conducting research in the humanitarian setting	10
Morbidities & outcomes of a neonatal intensive care unit in a complex humanitarian conflict setting, Hajjah Yemen: 2017-2018	10
The role of social capital in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian settings: a systematic review of qualitative studies	10
Accountability strategies for sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in humanitarian settings: a scoping review	10
Dealing with difficult choices: a qualitative study of experiences and consequences of moral challenges among disaster healthcare responders	10
Mental health of women and children experiencing family violence in conflict settings: a mixed methods systematic review	10
Help-seeking, trust and intimate partner violence: social connections amongst displaced and non-displaced Yezidi women and men in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq	10
Using a community-based system dynamics approach for understanding inclusion and wellbeing: a case study of special needs education in an eastern African refugee camp	10