OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population Health Metrics 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities	68
Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide	48
MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing	25
Living arrangements and lonely life expectancy: a multistate life table based on Markov chains	24
Socio-economic contextual determinants and behavioral changes during pregnancy: evidence from the "MAMI-MED" cohort	22
Associations of socioeconomic status and healthy lifestyle with incident early-onset and late-onset hypertension: a nationwide prospective cohort study in the UK	17
Correction to: How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	15
Building a maternal and child cohort amidst Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse: preliminary results and navigating research challenges	15
NPR is an independent risk factor for predicting all-cause mortality in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: evidence from NHANES 2007–2020	15
The joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health	14
Harmonizing measurements: establishing a common metric via shared items across instruments	14
Quantifying the magnitude of the general contextual effect in a multilevel study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ontario, Canada: application of the median rate ratio in population health research	12
Automatic electronic reporting improved the completeness of AMI and stroke incident surveillance in Tianjin, China: a modeling study	10
Google trend analysis of the Indian population reveals a panel of seasonally sensitive comorbid symptoms with implications for monitoring the seasonally sensitive human population	10
Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis	9
On the measurement of healthy lifespan inequality	9
Navigating the next surge: a perspective on Egypt’s preparedness and prospects for another COVID-19 outbreak	9
The rural mortality penalty in U.S. hospital patients with COVID-19	8
Flexible parametric methods for calculating life expectancy in small populations	7
Forecasting life expectancy in São Paulo City, Brazil, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Applying an ICD-10 to ICD-11 mapping tool to identify causes of death codes in an Alberta dataset	7
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China	6
Addressing missing values in routine health information system data: an evaluation of imputation methods using data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Population health and population health metrics	6
Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)	6

Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa	6
How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	6
Characteristics of hemoglobin distributions in preschool children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age and their implications for establishing quality control criteria for hemoglobin data in fie	5
Using routine programmatic data to measure HIV incidence among pregnant women in Botswana	5
Disability weight measurement for the severity of different diseases in Wuhan, China	5
The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model	4
Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table	4
Correction to: A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	4
The fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD): a person-centred measure of cancer burden	4
Socio-economic inequalities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 period in north-western Tanzania, 2018–2021	4
Trends and patterns of disparities in diabetes and chronic kidney disease mortality among US counties, 1980–2014	4
The quality of routine data for measuring facility-based maternal mortality in public and private health facilities in Kampala City, Uganda	4
Quantifying the association of Life’s Crucial 9 with cardiovascular diseases among elderly hypertensive patients managed in primary care settings	3
Enabling the examination of long-term mortality trends by educational level for England and Wales in a time-consistent and internationally comparable manner	3
Estimating district HIV prevalence in Zambia using small-area estimation methods (SAE)	3
Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse	3
Excess and reduced work absence during COVID-19 in Poland: insights from cause-specific time-series models	3
Correction to: Adapting and validating the log quadratic model to derive under-five age and cause-specific mortality (U5ACSM): a preliminary analysis	2
Improving the validity of estimates of mortality inequalities by education in England & Wales	2
Analytical reference framework to analyze non-COVID-19 events	2
The contributions of public health policies and healthcare quality to gender gap and country differences in life expectancy in the UK	2
Age and sex-specific disability-free life expectancy in urban and rural settings of Bangladesh	2
Diabetes free life expectancy and years of life lost associated with type 2 diabetes: projected trends in Germany between 2015 and 2040	2
The confidante method to measure abortion: implementing a standardized comparative analysis approach across seven contexts	2
Constructing synthetic populations in the age of big data	2
Population age structure dependency of the excess mortality P-score	2
Health dynamics in war-torn Yemen: insights from 32 years of epidemiological data (1990–2021)	2
When the technical is also normative: a critical assessment of measuring health inequalities using the concentration index-based indices	2
Design, develop, and implement the strategic information system on health, dependence, and healthy aging: an analysis of the Mexican experience	2
Measuring unequal distribution of pandemic severity across census years, variants of concern and interventions	2
The global prevalence of single-child families with emphasis on influential factors: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Mortality trends in chronic liver disease and cirrhosis from 1981 to 2015 in Taiwan	1
The impact of different imputation methods on estimates and model performance: an example using a risk prediction model for premature mortality	1
From raw data to a score: comparing quantitative methods that construct multi-level composite implementation strength scores of family planning programs in Malawi	1
Effect of birthweight measurement quality improvement on low birthweight prevalence in rural Ethiopia	1
Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia	1
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality and life expectancy in northern Ghana: findings from the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System	1
Country-specific determinants for COVID-19 case fatality rate and response strategies from a global perspective: an interpretable machine learning framework	1
Comparing two data collection methods to track vital events in maternal and child health via community health workers in rural Nepal	1
A retrospective assessment of COVID-19 vulnerability index indicators and mortality rates pre-COVID-19 (2018–2020) and during COVID-19 (2020–2022) in a health and demographic surveillance site, Soweto	1
Beyond the underlying cause of death: an algorithm to study multi-morbidity at death	1
Methods used to construct disability indicators in linked administrative datasets: a systematic scoping review	1
The effect of follow-up on the blood pressure control: a longitudinal study in rural areas of China	1
Patient-centred estimation of multimorbidity in chronic disease populations: a novel approach integrating global burden of disease metrics and healthcare administrative data	1
The global burden of climate-sensitive diseases in Brazil: the national and subnational estimates and analysis, 1990–2017	0
How impact factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, change the quality of life of the elderly	0
A new method for estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories	0
The mediating role of family functioning between childhood adversity and adult Health- related risk behaviors: a moderated mediation analysis of generational gap in Chinese migrant workers	0
Correction: Empirical prediction intervals applied to short term mortality forecasts and excess deaths	0
A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	0

A method for small-area estimation of population mortality in settings affected by crises	0
Civilian death and injury from airstrikes: evidence from the war in Tigray, Ethiopia	0
Linking mother’s demographic disadvantages with children’s demographic outcomes in India: a pseudo cohort study	0
Prevalence of asymptomatic malaria at the communal level in Burkina Faso: an application of the small area estimation approach	0
Pandemic preparedness improves national-level SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality data completeness: a cross-country ecologic analysis	0
Improving birth weight measurement and recording practices in Kenya and Tanzania: a prospective intervention study with historical controls	0
Non-linear correlation between the ratio of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to C-reactive protein and all-cause mortality in adults: an extensive study based on nationwide data	0
Socioeconomic inequalities and its spatial pattern in sanitary napkin use in Bangladesh: evidence from the 2019 multiple indicator cluster survey	0
How much missing data is too much to impute for longitudinal health indicators? A preliminary guideline for the choice of the extent of missing proportion to impute with multiple imputation by chained	0
Method for reconstructing mortality by educational groups	0
Quality-adjusted life expectancy norms for the Iranian population	0
Estimating disability-adjusted life years for breast cancer and the impact of screening in female populations in China, 2015–2030: an exploratory prevalence-based analysis applying local weights	0
The impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy across socioeconomic groups in Denmark	0
Composite anthropometric data quality index for children under the age of 5 on the Brazilian National Food and Nutrition Surveillance System, 2019–2021	0
The prevalence and management of chronic pain in the Chinese population: findings from the China Pain Health Index (2020)	0
Regional variations in Italy’s COVID-19 death toll: a descriptive analysis of excess mortality and associated factors from 2020 to 2021	0
Estimating the impact of donor programs on child mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a synthetic control analysis of child health programs funded by the United States Agency for Internation	0
Societies at risk: the association between conflict intensity and population health indicators in Venezuela	0
Quality of vital event data for infant mortality estimation in prospective, population-based studies: an analysis of secondary data from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	0
Prevalence of unmet health care need in older adults in 83 countries: measuring progressing towards universal health coverage in the context of global population ageing	0
Gender-specific trends of educational inequality in diagnosed diabetes from 1999 to 2014 in Hong Kong: a serial cross-sectional study of 97,481 community-dwelling Chinese adults	0
Correction to: Impact of 2017 ACC/AHA guideline on prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and determinants of hypertension: a population-based cross-sectional study in southwest of Iran	0
An evaluation of truncated birth histories for the rapid measurement of fertility and child survival	0
Value of statistical life year in extreme poverty: a randomized experiment of measurement methods in rural Burkina Faso	0
The health and economic burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Belgium from 2013 to 2018	0
Number needed to isolate - a new population health metric to quantify transmission reductions from isolation interventions for infectious diseases	0
A comparison of approaches to measuring maternal mortality in Bangladesh, Mozambique, and Bolivia	0
Cardiovascular risk and the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based and case‒control studies	0
Estimation and probabilistic projection of age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030	0
Correction: The confidante method to measure abortion: implementing a standardized comparative analysis approach across seven contexts	0
The global burden of disease study and Population Health Metrics	0
Assessment of the quality of the vital registration system for under-5 mortality in Yucatan, Mexico	0
Measuring population health impact of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from WHO and cuts to USAID: time to start counting	0
Automated mortality coding for improved health policy in the Philippines	0
US county-level estimation for maternal and infant health-related behavior indicators using pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system data, 2016–2018	0
Empirical prediction intervals applied to short term mortality forecasts and excess deaths	0
Reallocating diabetes-related garbage codes to improve mortality estimates: a case study in Weifang, China	0
Standardised reporting of burden of disease studies: the STROBOD statement	0
An objective metric of individual health and aging for population surveys	0
Projecting the economic burden of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Germany from 2010 until 2040	0
A novel comorbidity index in Italy based on diseases detected by the surveillance system PASSI and the Global Burden of Diseases disability weights	0
Newly estimated disability weights for 196 health states in Hubei Province, China	0
Deriving disability weights for the Netherlands: findings from the Dutch disability weights measurement study	0
Effect of census-based correction of population figures on mortality rates in Germany	0
The role of education composition in shaping the burden of obesity and diabetes in Indonesia: a microsimulation-based projection study	0
Conflict-attributable mortality in Tigray Region, Ethiopia: Evidence from a survey of the Tigrayan diaspora	0
Decomposing the gaps in healthy and unhealthy life expectancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: a burden of disease and injury study	0
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mortality among adults receiving care for chronic health conditions in rural South Africa: findings from Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system	0
Prioritization of intervention domains to prevent cardiovascular disease: a country-level case study using global burden of disease and local data	0
Disaggregating proportional multistate lifetables by population heterogeneity to estimate intervention impacts on inequalities	0
An innovative visual approach to the simultaneous study of two dimensions of progress in longevity: an application to French and German regions	0
Adapting and validating the log quadratic model to derive under-five age- and cause-specific mortality (U5ACSM): a preliminary analysis	0
War and Population Health: there is no metric for the horror	0
Prevalence of menthol cigarette use among adults who smoke from the United States by census division and demographic subgroup, 2002–2020: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) project	0
Examining select sociodemographic characteristics of sub-county geographies for public health surveillance	0
Wealth-based disparities in the prevalence of short birth interval in India: insights from NFHS-5	0
State-level metabolic comorbidity prevalence and control among adults age 50-plus with diabetes: estimates from electronic health records and survey data in five states	0
Applying group-based trajectory modeling to understand under-five mortality trends and determinants in low-and lower-middle income countries	0
Widening or narrowing income inequalities in myocardial infarction? Time trends in life years free of myocardial infarction and after incidence	0
Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China	0
Geostatistical linkage of national demographic and health survey data: a case study of Tanzania	0
China’s fertility change: an analysis with multiple measures	0
Bayesian modelling of population trends in alcohol consumption provides empirically based country estimates for South Africa	0
A scoping review of the methods used to estimate health facility catchment populations for child health indicators in sub-Saharan Africa	0