BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Global Health is 11. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Research within international non-governmental organisation programmes in low and middle-income countries: challenges amid opportunities744
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples680
A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of application-based tiered care (Mom’s Good Mood) in treating perinatal anxiety within a primary health care system in China356
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman251
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long248
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region198
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it195
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse175
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem173
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal164
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study148
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health141
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis121
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review121
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries120
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study119
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia119
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support117
Relative efficiency of demand creation strategies to increase voluntary medical male circumcision uptake: a study conducted as part of a randomised controlled trial in Zimbabwe114
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review111
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa109
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax101
Humane shelter at home: a call to reimagine a core pandemic intervention100
Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth: validity and reliability of community survey measures94
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership94
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population89
Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial88
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services87
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia86
Creating health by building peace86
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context84
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos83
Flashing red lights: the global implications of COVID-19 vaccination passports79
Recent sex ratio at birth in China74
Governance factors that affect the implementation of health financing reforms in Tanzania: an exploratory study of stakeholders’ perspectives67
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact66
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana65
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union65
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response65
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals65
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care62
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India59
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health58
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis58
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health57
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum57
Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-1956
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy56
Unravelling ‘low-resource settings’: a systematic scoping review with qualitative content analysis55
Performance management in complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework for health systems54
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic54
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data54
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic53
Health spending and vaccination coverage in low-income countries53
A partisan pandemic: state government public health policies to combat COVID-19 in Brazil52
Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors52
Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research52
Correction for assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the international alcohol control study52
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China51
Enhanced or hindered research benefits? A realist review of community engagement and participatory research practices for non-communicable disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries50
The impact of institutional delivery on neonatal and maternal health outcomes: evidence from a road upgrade programme in India50
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review50
A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa49
How overstated scientific claims undermine ethical principles in parenting interventions49
We move together: a realist evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Eastern Province, Zambia49
Co-creating an arts-based eye health education strategy in Zanzibar: process, outcomes and lessons learnt48
Tracking progress towards universal health coverage for essential health services in China, 2008–201848
The need to reshape global food processing: a call to the United Nations Food Systems Summit48
Strengthening the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) COVID-19 vaccination information system46
Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania46
Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness45
How to improve outbreak response: a case study of integrated outbreak analytics from Ebola in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo45
Tackling non-communicable disease risk in young adults across the Caribbean: a call to action45
Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018: a prospective surveillance44
Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats43
Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries43
A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings43
Elusive quality: the challenges and ethical dilemmas faced by international non-governmental organisations in sourcing quality assured medical products42
Health workforce supply, needs and financial feasibility in Lesotho: a labour market analysis42
Accelerating and sustaining progress: PEPFAR’s path to achieving 95-95-95 by 203042
Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–201642
Exploring equity in health and poverty impacts of control measures for SARS-CoV-2 in six countries42
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya42
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada: a scoping review42
Estimating the contribution of transmission in primary healthcare clinics to community-wide TB disease incidence, and the impact of infection prevention and control interventions, in KwaZulu-Natal, So41
The pitfalls of modelling the effects of COVID-19 on gender-based violence: lessons learnt and ways forward41
A missing piece in the Health for Peace agenda: gender diverse leadership and governance41
Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso41
Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data40
Will a global preparedness treaty help or hinder pandemic preparedness?40
Effects of PACK training on the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by primary care clinicians during 2 years of implementation in Florianópolis, Brazil: extended follow-up 40
Community-level impacts of sanitation coverage on maternal and neonatal health: a retrospective cohort of survey data40
The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era39
Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience: the case of Lebanon’s primary healthcare system39
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care from the perspective of fathers, partners and other family members: a qualitative evidence synthesis39
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update39
The Linda Kizazi study: a comparison of morbidity and mortality from birth to 2 years between children who are HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed, uninfected in the era of universal antiretroviral therapy38
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships38
Acceptability and effectiveness of a study information video in improving the research consent process for youth: a non-inferiority trial38
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa38
Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit37
Design, implementation and outcomes of a national oxygen distribution network in Lesotho37
COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: the need for a syndemics approach to data reporting and healthcare delivery37
Correction: A framework for community health worker optimisation in conflict settings: prerequisites and possibilities from Northwest Syria37
‘Hybrid Survey’ approach to non-communicable disease surveillance in the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands36
Primary healthcare system and provider responses to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan36
Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial36
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement in culturally sensitive research in southwestern Nigeria36
Inequity of healthcare access and use and catastrophic health spending in slum communities: a retrospective, cross-sectional survey in four countries36
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes35
Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates35
Associations between social determinants of health and interpersonal violence-related injury in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study35
The return of austerity imperils global health35
Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease34
Excess deaths reveal unequal impact of COVID-19 in Ecuador34
A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries34
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study34
Are there sex differences in completeness of death registration and quality of cause of death statistics? Results from a global analysis34
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis34
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations34
Falling aid for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic34
Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis33
Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis33
Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations33
‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala33
Lessons learnt from daily oral PrEP delivery to inform national planning for PrEP ring introduction for women in low-income and middle-income countries: a qualitative inquiry of international stakehol33
Geographic barriers to establishing a successful hospital referral system in rural Madagascar33
Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond32
Recognising stillbirth as a loss of life and not a baby born without life32
Engaging pharmacies in tuberculosis control: operational lessons from 19 case detection interventions in high-burden countries32
AVIVA: a telehealth tool to improve cervical cancer screening in resource-constrained settings32
Can youth-centred sexual and reproductive health self-care and contraceptive innovation address unintended pregnancy among girls and young women? Some reflections from Asia and the Pacific32
The social dimensions of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo32
Evolution of assisted deliveries at primary healthcare centres in an unstable security context in Mali32
Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience31
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994–201831
Control of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa: fragile progress, new threats31
Child health and the implementation of Community and District-management Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES) in Uganda: a randomised controlled trial31
Significance of timely responses to mental health crises during unprecedented societal and global changes using an agile, empathic and user-centred digital approach: lessons from the Hong Kong experie31
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa31
Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–202031
Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review30
Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya30
Understanding community health worker employment preferences in Malang district, Indonesia, using a discrete choice experiment30
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change?30
Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation30
Quality of clinical evidence and political justifications of ivermectin mass distribution of COVID-19 kits in eight Latin American countries29
Understanding factors impacting global priority of emergency care: a qualitative policy analysis29
Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research29
Lessons learned from COVID-19 modelling efforts for policy decision-making in lower- and middle-income countries29
The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews29
Conflict, sanctions and the struggles of Syrians for food security in the shadow of the UN Food Systems Summit 202129
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis29
Using scientific authorship criteria as a tool for equitable inclusion in global health research29
Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study29
Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review28
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda, February 202128
Performance assessment of the county healthcare systems in Kenya: a mixed-methods analysis28
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data28
COVID-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research28
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 202128
Estimating the burden of mpox among MSM in South Africa28
Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control28
Gender, mental health and resilience in armed conflict: listening to life stories of internally displaced women in Colombia28
Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau28
The status and challenges of HPV vaccine programme in China: an exploration of the related policy obstacles27
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a quasi-experimental study27
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings27
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency27
‘What we lacked was the courage to take decisions that differed from the rest of the world’: expert perspectives on the role of evidence in COVID-19 policymaking in Iraq26
Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic26
A review of authorship in herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 202026
Fragile, handle with care: refining a key concept for global health and development26
Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients withPlasmodium vivaxmalaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis26
The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for26
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–202126
The future of global health: restructuring governance through inclusive youth leadership26
Improving healthcare accessibility for pregnant women and children in the context of health system strengthening initiatives and terrorist attacks in Central Mali: a controlled interrupted time series26
Cost-effectiveness of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services in Africa: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial25
Protracted armed conflict and maternal health: a scoping review of literature and a retrospective analysis of primary data from northwest Syria25
Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens25
Retention in theBukhalitrial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory25
Conscientious objection: a global health perspective25
Quantifying the effects of attacks on health facilities on health service use in Northwest Syria: a case time series study from 2017 to 201925
The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults25
Achieving universal health coverage; implementation of the ‘supporting physician retention in deprived areas’ programme in Iran25
Assessing the effectiveness of the expanded hepatitis A vaccination program in China: an interrupted time series design25
Inequalities in use of hospitals for childbirth among rural women in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative analysis of 18 countries using Demographic and Health Survey data25
Experiences of violence and discrimination among LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global cross-sectional analysis25
Barriers to community engagement during the response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda25
Does the implementation of UHC reforms foster greater equality in health spending? Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in Burkina Faso25
Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar24
Multilevel determinants of community health workers for an effective maternal and child health programme in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review24
Decolonising global health by decolonising academic publishing24
Midwife-led birthing centres in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda: an economic evaluation of case study sites24
Parental and professional perceptions of informed consent and participation in a time-critical neonatal trial: a mixed-methods study in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh24
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda24
Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?24
Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries23
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–201923
Budgetary impact of using BPaL for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis23
Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health23
Improving risk analysis of the environmental drivers of the spillover, emergence/re-emergence and spread of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Marburg virus and Middle East respiratory syndrome c23
Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research23
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review23
The journey to UHC: how well are vertical programmes integrated in the health benefits package? A scoping review23
The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord: establishing baseline consensus microbial data-sharing norms to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration23
Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand23
Building the evidence base for global health policy: the need to strengthen institutional networks, geographical representation and global collaboration23
Roadblocks and solutions to planning surgical care for a billion Indians23
Hierarchy of qualities in global health partnerships: a path towards equity and sustainability23
Progressive realisation of universal access to oral health services: what evidence is needed?22
Why addressing inequality must be central to pandemic preparedness22
The autonomy of public health facilities in decentralised contexts: insights from applying a complexity lens in Kenya22
Association between ambulance prehospital time and maternal and perinatal outcomes in Sierra Leone: a countrywide study22
A comparative analysis of supply chain factors impacting COVID-19 vaccine security in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs)22
Managing the challenges associated with decreasing demand for COVID-19 vaccination in Central and West Asia22
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation: balancing equity and coverage in Pakistan22
Are maternal vaccines effective and safe for mothers and infants? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials22
Starfield’s 4Cs of NCD management in primary healthcare: a conceptual framework development from a case study of 19 countries22
Norm diffusion in global health governance: the role of think tanks22
The effectiveness and sustainability of peer support interventions for persons living with HIV: a realist synthesis22
Can higher spending on primary healthcare mitigate the impact of ageing and non-communicable diseases on health expenditure?22
Oral iron supplementation and anaemia in children according to schedule, duration, dose and cosupplementation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 129 randomised trials22
Are current preventive chemotherapy strategies for controlling and eliminating neglected tropical diseases cost-effective?22
Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and regional estimates22
Transitioning the COVID-19 response in the WHO African region: a proposed framework for rethinking and rebuilding health systems22
Home-based management of neonatal sepsis: 23 years of sustained implementation and effectiveness in rural Gadchiroli, India, 1996–201922
Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways: a changing paradigm22
Implementing Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in all countries in the WHO African region: process challenges, lessons learnt and perspectives for th22
Risk communication and community engagement capacity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a call for action22
Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana: implications for quality management and control of malaria21
Data for whom?Experiences and perceptions of a perinatal eRegistry in two hospitals in Mtwara region, Tanzania21
Disseminating information on acute public health events globally: experiences from the WHO’s Disease Outbreak News21
A systematic review of the indirect impacts of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health services and outcomes in humanitarian settings21
The effect of an annual temporary abstinence campaign on population-level alcohol consumption in Thailand: a time-series analysis of 23 years21
Building resilience for sexual and reproductive health at the community level: learning from three crisis-affected provinces in Pakistan21
How can we strengthen the Joint External Evaluation?21
Aligning health worker education and learning approaches with population health needs: WHO’s Family Planning and Comprehensive Abortion Care Toolkit for the primary healthcare workforce21
SMS feedback system as a quality assurance mechanism: experience from a household survey in rural India21
Claims data from health insurance programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an untapped resource to promote Universal Health Coverage21
Framing, moral foundations and health taxes: interpretive analysis of Ethiopia’s tobacco excise tax policy passage21
Ethical preparedness of data monitoring committees (DMCs) to oversee international clinical trials: a qualitative descriptive study21
Postpartum recovery after severe maternal morbidity in Kilifi, Kenya: a grounded theory of recovery trajectories beyond 42 days21
Strengthening public financial management in the health sector: a qualitative case study from South Africa20
Public health emergency archetypes: a framework to guide efforts to ensure equitable access to medical countermeasures20
National hospital costing systems matter for universal healthcare: the India PM-JAY experience20
Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte d’Ivoire: a cluster randomised controlled trial20
Optimising the reach of mobile health messaging programmes: an analysis of system generated data for the Kilkari programme across 13 states in India20
Developing forecasting capacity for public health emergency management in Africa using syndemics approach: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic20
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