OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health Systems & Reform is 2. 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
The Quality of Primary Care in Cambodia: An Assessment of Knowledge and Effort of Public Sector Maternal and Child Care Providers	21
A Special Issue Honoring the Legacy of Adam Wagstaff	16
Has Strategic Purchasing Led to Improvements in Health Systems? A Narrative Review of Literature on Strategic Purchasing	14
SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa	14
Trust, Care Avoidance, and Care Experiences among Kenyan Women Who Delivered during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Building Institutions for Priority Setting in Health”	11
The Consolidation of Risk Pools in the National Health Insurance Program of the Republic of Korea: Analysis of the Political Processes	11
Applying Mobile Technology to Address Gender-Based Violence in Rural Nigeria: Experiences and Perceptions of Users and Stakeholders	10
Comprehensive Assessment of Health System Performance in Odisha, India	9
County Hospital Responses to Funding Reforms in Zhejiang, China: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis	9
Preface to the Special Issue by Keizo Takemi, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan	9
Cross-Programmatic Efficiency: The System is Greater Than the Sum of Its Programs	8
The Cervical Cancer Treatment Gap in Mexico Under Seguro Popular , 2006-2016	8
Preface to the Special Issue by Kichiro Matsumoto, President, Japan Medical Association	8
Potential Strengths and Weaknesses in Hospital Resilience in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Case Study	8
Scaling Up Departmental Health Insurance Units in Senegal: A Mixed-Method Study	7
An Assessment of Provider Payment Mechanisms (PPMs) in Ethiopia: Implications for Redesign of PPMs and Progress Toward Universal Health Coverage	7
How to Pay for Telemedicine: A Comparison of Ten Health Systems	7
Improving Access to and Coverage of Rehabilitation Services through the Implementation of Rehabilitation in Primary Health Care: A Case Study from Chile	6
Understanding Impacts of Online Dual Practice on Health System Performance: A Qualitative Study in China	6
Resilience of Primary Health Care in Ukraine: Challenges of the Pandemic and War	6
Rethinking Japan’s Health System Sustainability Under the Planetary Health Framework	6
The Evolution of Health Benefits Packages in Colombia: Thirty Years of Successes and Failures	6
Attributes and Organizational Factors that Enabled Innovation in Health Care Service Delivery during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Case Studies from Brazil, Canada and Japan	6
The Development of Health Technology Assessment in Taiwan: Perspectives and Analysis	6

Identifying Major Health-System Challenges in Developing Countries Using PERs: Equity is the Elephant in the Room	6
Introduction to the Special Issue on Digital Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Global Health	5
Hospital Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Five Countries: A Multiple Case Study	5
Hospital Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multiple-Country Case Study	5
Economic Consequences of Ill-Health in Rural Ethiopia	5
Role of User Benefit Awareness in Health Coverage Utilization among the Poor in Cambodia	5
Rural–Urban Differences: Using Finer Geographic Classifications to Reevaluate Distance and Choice of Health Services in Malawi	5
Does Public Financial Management Save Life? Evidence from a Quantitative Review of PFM and Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan African Countries	5
Responses to Hospital Restrictions on Family Visits during the COVID-19 Epidemic in Mali and France	5
Roles and Dynamics within Community Mental Health Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography	5
Generating Political Priority for Primary Health Care Reform in Romania	5
Fifteen Lessons from Fifteen Years of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program in Thailand	5
The Politics of Health Policy Agenda Setting in India: The Case of the PMJAY Program	4
Evolution of Health Technology Assessment in Indonesia: Supply Landscape, Implementation, and Future Directions	4
Effect of the Implementation of the French Hospital Regionalization Policy on Patient Mobility	4
Separation of Maternal and Newborn Care in US Hospitals: A Systemic Threat to Survival, Health and Well-Being	4
Objective-Oriented Health Systems Reform: Implications for Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage	3
Adam Wagstaff: Celebrating a Full and Impactful Life	3
Financial Protection in Health among the Elderly – A Global Stocktake	3
Public Financial Management: A Pathway to Universal Health Coverage in Low-and-Middle Income Countries	3
Commercial and Social Value of Pharmaceutical Industry-led Access Programs: Conceptual Framework and Descriptive Analysis	3
Staying the Course: Reflections on the Progress and Challenges of the UHC Law in the Philippines	3
An Empirical Examination of the Inequality of Forgone Care in India	3
Will the Quest for UHC be Derailed?	3
Health Reforms in Pursuit of Universal Health Coverage: Lessons from Kenyan Bureaucrats	3
Improving Implementation of NCD Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Case of Fixed Dose Combinations for Hypertension in Kenya	3
Applying the Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Tracking Framework: Lessons from Nine African Countries	3
Leveraging Digital Health Data to Transform the United Nations Systems for Palestine Refugees for the Post Pandemic Time	3
Does Provider Autonomy Work Well in Tanzania? Perspectives of Primary Care Facilities on Budget Execution under Direct Facility Financing and Factors Affecting Provider Autonomy in Singida Region	3
Decentralization Can Improve Equity, but Can It Be Sustained?	3
International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan	2
Can a 19 ^th Century French Medical Debate Provide Guidance on How to Tackle Type 2 Diabetes?	2
A Tale of Two Social Insurance Systems in South Korea and Taiwan: A Financial Risk Protection Perspective	2
Establishing a Health Technology Assessment Evidence Ecosystem in India’s Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana	2
Factors Influencing the Institutionalization of Health Technology Assessment: A Scoping Literature Review	2
Can Strategic Health Purchasing Reduce Inefficiency and Corruption in the Health Sector? The Case of Nigeria	2
Lessons Learned in Using Mathematical Modeling for Priority Setting in Health	2
Using a Small Lever to Achieve Big Outcomes in a Devolved Health System: 20 Years of Programa Sumar in Argentina	2
Vaccine Hesitancy and COVID-19 Risk Behaviors Associated with Social Media Use in Japan	2
Changing Inequalities in Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy by Income and Race in South Africa	2
The Landscape of Strategic Health Purchasing for Universal Health Coverage in Burkina Faso: Insights from Five Major Health Financing Schemes	2
The Future of Health Technology Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	2
Institutionalizing Health Technology Assessment in South Africa—An Opportunity in National Health Insurance	2
Examining the Implementation Experience of the Universal Health Coverage Pilot in Kenya	2
Collaborative Learning to Advance Knowledge and Implementation of Strategic Health Purchasing in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
The Role of Digital Health Under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance System: Progress and Challenges	2
Is Performance-Based Financing A Pathway to Strategic Purchasing in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Synthesis of the Evidence	2
The Impact of Centralized Procurement on Treatment Patterns for Myocardial Infarction and More Principled Utilization of Coronary Stents	2
Health Technology Assessment in Taiwan: Reflections of the Last Twenty Years	2