OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health Policy and Planning is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Job preferences and trade-offs in rural health workforce retention: a discrete choice experiment from western China	2
Power, Interests, and Maternal Health Care: A Political Economy Analysis of Service Delivery Redesign in Kenya	1
The impact of official development assistance for health on health outcomes: a rapid systematic review	1
Trends and patterns of inequality in modern contraceptive use in urban and rural India: are family planning programmes increasingly reaching the marginalized?	1
How are health capital and income inequality linked? Analysis of the 2012–2018 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey	1
The effect of performance-based financing interventions on health worker motivation and job satisfaction: experimental evidence from six national pilots	1
Adolescent mental, sexual, and reproductive health in Ghana: a stakeholder analysis of actors’ influence over policy formulation and implementation	1
Governing health through security in the Philippines: a realist analysis	1
Integrating systems and implementation science in modeling and evaluating complex health interventions: methodological reflections from service delivery redesign in Kakamega, Kenya	1
Assessing the costs of antenatal care in Eastern Ethiopia: implications for improving the free maternity services policy	0
Older adults’ experiences of health seeking in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of qualitative studies	0
Enhancing health system efficiency in China: considering the interaction between use of primary care and the demand for secondary and tertiary care	0
Building climate resilient healthcare systems: lessons from Thailand	0
Towards a coherent global health architecture: perspectives on integrating global health security and universal health coverage through diplomacy and governance reforms	0
Self-care and health seeking for diabetes and hypertension in Cambodia	0
Responsibility without autonomy: exploring the emergence of distributed leadership in a district hospital of the Western Cape province, South Africa	0
Intervention co-design to reduce the impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Burkina Faso	0
Gender-Based Violence Policies and Practices in Humanitarian Settings: A Qualitative Policy Analysis, North Ethiopia	0
Beyond evidence: how actor dynamics and power shape knowledge translation for health policy in Kenya	0
Obituary: Prof. J. Patrick Vaughan, CBE, founding editor of “Health Policy and Planning”	0
The impacts of removing pharmaceutical co-payments for chronic conditions at primary care level: a pilot study in rural China	0
‘Honouring the storyteller’: the potential of Playback Theatre in health policy and systems research	0
Operationalizing multisector partnerships: a Theory of Action and Reflection tool for zoonotic influenzas	0
Integrating eye health into a child health policy in Tanzania: global and national influences	0
Using mHealth to provide sexual and reproductive health services to young people in rural Ghana: health care providers’ perspectives	0

Determinants of distress financing for healthcare service utilization: a convergent mixed-method study at a tertiary hospital in Malaysia	0
Correction to: Can medical consortiums bridge the gap in health inequity in China? A propensity score matching analysis	0
Understanding the financial hardships faced by TB and HIV patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method study in Bandung and Yogyakarta, Indonesia	0
The political economy of adolescent mental health in Kenya	0
Nursing student training as a novel approach to increasing community-based access to contraception in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: evaluation of outcomes	0
Strengthening health research capacity for postgraduate trainees: an indigenous realist evaluation of the ‘African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence’ programme	0
Measuring and monitoring child health and well-being—an integral part of the climate change agenda	0
Public policies addressing unhealthy diets in the South-East Asia region: identifying and countering the arguments that undermine policy implementation	0
Time to fully account for cost in monitoring financial protection and universal health coverage in low- and middle-income settings	0
An integrated rehabilitation workforce within secondary healthcare in Pakistan: a qualitative study with physiotherapists	0
Protecting unaccompanied migrant youth in transit through Mexico: frontline perspectives on appropriate policy implementation	0
Enrollment or dropout: dynamics of social health insurance participation among Chinese children and their impact on health service utilization and medical expenses	0
Surgical indicators for obstetrics and family planning in routine health information systems: a landscape analysis	0
Crises and complexity: how can we make health interventions succeed?	0
Expanding budget space to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: what role for tax expenditures?	0
Out of focus: limited representation of men’s health needs in regional and global sexual and reproductive health policy	0
Impact of the Family Doctor Contracting System on unmet healthcare needs in Shandong Province, China	0
New health taxes in Ghana: a qualitative study exploring potential public support	0
Condom use prevalence during the COVID-19 pandemic among female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis	0
Health impact of alcohol regulatory interventions: a systematic review of policies in low- and middle-income countries	0
How policy entrepreneurs solve local health problems in the global South: an exploratory study	0
Remittances, political economy and public health expenditure: evidence from Africa	0
Barriers to raising taxes on tobacco products in Uganda: a political economy analysis	0
Facilitators and barriers of public–private partnerships for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	0
Newborn technology use in low-resource settings: the role of health professionals’ communication in implementation	0
Understanding determinants of parental HPV vaccine hesitancy under a municipal free vaccination program in Guangzhou, China	0
How to (or how not to)…Enhance equity in the conduct of global health research: dimensions and directions for organizations	0
Bridging care hierarchies through regional global budget payment: evidence from county medical communities in Zhejiang Province, China	0
What affects the performance of hospital financing interventions in low and lower-middle income countries from the program design and implementation perspective? A scoping review	0
Impact of integrated care models on inpatient costs and health services efficiency: evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis in China	0
Psychological constructs and preferences for a complementary inclusive health insurance: a hybrid choice model	0
Untangling the complex web of alcohol policy needs and potential solutions in Brazil: evidence from civil society and political stakeholders	0
Informal health care providers in Nigerian slums: perspectives on how to link them with the formal health system	0
Enhancing the well-being of the elderly: evidence from China on the role of health investment	0
Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in older Mexican people based on their social security status	0
A narrative review on cost considerations in early intervention for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children in Africa	0
Reducing extreme heat impacts on health in pregnant women and infants: a community based intervention in Kilifi, Kenya	0
How effective are community health workers in managing and preventing perinatal depression in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review of quantitative evidence	0
Script Shift: South African pharmacists’ knowledge and perspectives of e-prescribing	0
Willingness to pay for assisted reproductive technologies among individuals with infertility in China	0
Assessing the cost implications of integrating and scaling up HIV services for key populations in Kenya and Malawi	0
Overcoming barriers to pediatric intensive care in low-resource settings: an institutional experience from Northeast India	0
State-church partnerships as an innovative strategy in healthcare delivery for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	0
International price comparisons for national price-negotiated drugs in China: a cross-regional analysis	0
Context and generalizability in health policy and systems research: a plea for an integrative praxis of theorizing	0
Cervical cancer prevention and control in Nigeria: mapping and review of policies	0
A digital adaptation of the WHO’s Self-Help Plus psychological intervention to alleviate stress among community health workers: a mixed-methods evaluation of the SAMBHAV program in rural India	0
Decolonizing global health in an age of fragmentation: reimagining equity for universal health coverage	0
Understanding disruption in the social contract between the medical profession and society in India: a tale of mismatched expectations?	0
Can medical consortiums bridge the gap in health inequity in China? A propensity score matching analysis	0