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
SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa	14
Has Strategic Purchasing Led to Improvements in Health Systems? A Narrative Review of Literature on Strategic Purchasing	14
Trust, Care Avoidance, and Care Experiences among Kenyan Women Who Delivered during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
The Consolidation of Risk Pools in the National Health Insurance Program of the Republic of Korea: Analysis of the Political Processes	11
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Building Institutions for Priority Setting in Health”	11
Applying Mobile Technology to Address Gender-Based Violence in Rural Nigeria: Experiences and Perceptions of Users and Stakeholders	10
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
Comprehensive Assessment of Health System Performance in Odisha, India	9
Potential Strengths and Weaknesses in Hospital Resilience in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Case Study	8
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
How to Pay for Telemedicine: A Comparison of Ten Health Systems	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Politics of Health Policy Agenda Setting in India: The Case of the PMJAY Program	4
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
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
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
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