Global Health Action

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Health Action is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Strategies for supporting the implementation of a task-shared psychological intervention in South Africa’s chronic disease services: qualitative insights from health managers’ experiences of project M52
Understanding why oral health professionals migrate: A qualitative investigation of Iranian dentists who have moved to Canada (Oral health professionals’ migration)43
Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis39
Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 202136
Cluster analysis of social determinants of health and HIV/AIDS knowledge among Peruvian youths using Kohonen’s self-organized maps: a data-exploration study based on a Demographic and health survey34
Patient perspectives on group problem management plus for adults with major depressive disorder in rural Malawi32
Global Financing Facility investments for vulnerable populations: content analysis regarding maternal and newborn health and stillbirths in 11 African countries, 2015 to 201926
Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country26
Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review26
“Arming half-baked people with weapons!” Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi25
Quality of active case-finding for tuberculosis in India: a national level secondary data analysis23
Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States22
Validation of the Child Development Card (KKA) as a growth and development tool for stunted and normal children in West Java, Indonesia21
Sexual and reproductive health literacy among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence synthesis and implications21
Preparedness for treating injured patients at a single-centre trauma hospital in Ethiopia: a qualitative study20
There is no right time for accountability for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health18
“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria18
Public health system response to emerging infectious respiratory outbreaks in Iran18
Livelihood dynamics and challenges to wellbeing in the drylands of rural East Africa – the Drylands Transform study population in the Karamoja border region18
Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in maternity hospitals of the Latin American and Caribbean network - Red CLAP: study protocol18
Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda: a community-based prospective cohort study18
Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases: case study of the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone17
Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis17
Developing capacity in identifying cost-effective interventions to prevent and reduce obesity in China17
Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth: literature review and qualitative research16
Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study16
“We don’t trust all data coming from all facilities”: factors influencing the quality of care network data quality in Ethiopia16
Building a ‘Virtual Library’: continuing a global collaboration to strengthen research capacity within Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries15
Modern slavery and labor exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual model15
Global public health policies: gathering public health associations’ perspectives15
Measuring the quality of mental health services from the patient perspective in China: psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the World Health Organization responsiveness performance questi15
The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios14
Integrating environmental sustainability into the teaching of global health ethics from a students’ perspective: new guiding questions14
Should disability-inclusive health be a priority in low-income countries? A case-study from Zimbabwe14
Facilitators and barriers to anemia prevention in the urban government childcare program for infants and young children in Peru14
Psychological distress 35 years after the Chornobyl accident in the Lithuanian clean-up workers13
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us13
Exploring approaches to weighting estimates of facility readiness to provide health services used for estimating input-adjusted effective coverage: a case study using data from Tanzania13
The new administration in the USA: impact of policy changes in development assistance on low- and middle-income countries, with the example of Nepal13
The escalating health crisis in Gaza amidst armed conflict and heatwaves13
Overweight and obesity trends and associated factors among reproductive women in Ethiopia12
Starting then stopping: a nationwide register-based study on the magnitude, predictors, and urban-rural patterns of under-vaccination variation across health centers in The Gambia12
Preconception care practices among primary health care nurses working in public health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal12
Validating a modified instrument for measuring Demand-Control-Support among students at a large university in southern Sweden12
The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) diabetes project: study design for a quantitative survey of diabetes prevalence and non-communicable disease risk in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana12
Strategies to increase rural maternal utilization of skilled health personnel for childbirth delivery in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review12
Disease burden comparison and associated risk factors of early- and late-onset neonatal sepsis in China and the USA, 1990–201912
HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Sweden. A cross-sectional study concerning interest to use HIV self-tests12
Comparison of a palm-based biometric solution with a name-based identification system in rural Bangladesh12
The legacy of ZikaPLAN: a transnational research consortium addressing Zika11
The role of community health workers in influencing social connectedness using the household model: a qualitative case study from Malawi11
‘Condoms are hard to get by’: access to HIV prevention methods during lockdown of the COVID-19 epidemic in eastern Zimbabwe11
Stakeholder views on the implementation of the UK’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) National Action Plan (2019–2024) in relation to AMR in the environment11
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru11
Causes of death among older children and adolescents (5–19 years) in the Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance Study, Tanzania, 1995–202211
Using maternal sepsis patient journeys to map and prioritise barriers to quality maternal healthcare in Malawi: a multidisciplinary stakeholder consultation workshop11
Effects of decentralization on the functionality of health facility governing committees in lower and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review11
Behavioural and emotional comorbidities in school-aged children with neurological conditions in Kilifi, Kenya, and their long-term consequences11
Tuberculosis treatment and resulting abnormal blood glucose: a scoping review of studies from 1981 - 202110
Women’s exposure to intimate partner violence and its association with child stunting: findings from a population-based study in rural Rwanda10
Interactive effects of atmospheric oxidising pollutants and heat waves on the risk of residential mortality10
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking: the need for responding with a gendered lens10
Understanding women’s decision-making process for birth location in Tanzania based on individual women’s reproductive pathways: a life-course perspective10
The perception of air pollution and its health risk: a scoping review of measures and methods9
Beyond supply and demand: a new ecological framework for understanding the access of young migrants to sexual and reproductive health services in Sweden9
Rwanda’s success in advancing midwifery education: a blueprint of a sustainable, nationally driven curriculum standardization9
Building coherent monitoring and evaluation plans with the Evaluation Planning Tool for global health9
Do cash or digital payment modalities affect community health worker performance? – a case study of a remote refugee settlement in Western Uganda9
Two decades of research capacity strengthening and reciprocal learning on sexual and reproductive health in East Africa – a point of (no) return9
‘If her body responds then you know she wants it’: a qualitative study on how young people in Ecuador and Uganda understand and practice consent9
Provider and client perspectives on the use of maternity waiting homes in rural Rwanda9
Social inequalities in social-emotional problems among preschool children: a population-based study in Sweden9
A decade of designing and implementing electronic health records in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review9
Implementation matters: program impact pathway analysis of four sectoral nutrition-sensitive interventions in Anambra and Kebbi states, Nigeria9
Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: a cross-sectional study9
Strengthening effectiveness evaluations to improve programs for women, children and adolescents8
Fiscal policies and regulations for healthy diets in Sri Lanka: an analysis of the political economy of taxation and traffic light labelling for sugar-sweetened beverages8
A life in death: reflections of Peter8
Spatial disparities in impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi8
Evaluation of care and clinical outcomes after the implementation of an electronic medical record system for type 1 diabetes management in Rwanda8
Spatio-temporal patterns of health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in Volta region, Ghana: a repeated cross-sectional ecological study using health facility d8
Spatial epidemiology of dengue and chikungunya in Karnataka using GIS-based analysis8
Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis8
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol8
Optimizing healthcare for blood donors at risk of transfusion-transmissible infections: pre-implementation mixed methods protocol8
Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence8
The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis8
Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in First Nations peoples: a systematic review8
Community-based follow-up of very low birth weight neonates discharged from a regional hospital in Cape Town: a descriptive study8
Geographic and socioeconomic inequities in cesarean delivery rates at the district level in Madhya Pradesh, India: A secondary analysis of the national family health survey-57
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health in South Africa7
Determinants of outpatient healthcare-seeking behaviors among the rural poor affected by chronic conditions in India: a population-based cross-sectional study in seven states7
Should all pregnant women take calcium supplements in Nepal? GRADE evidence to policy assessment7
Any better? A follow-up content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health inclusion in Global Financing Facility country planning documents7
Use of mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19: phone access and participation rates, in Rakai, Uganda7
Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health7
Examining health equity in Nepal’s climate change and health policies through the lens of environmental justice: insights from a content analysis7
Applying the photovoice method with adolescents in mining areas in rural Mozambique: critical reflections and lessons learned7
Perspectives on delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services to young people: focus group discussions with civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of Co7
Changes in self-reported risky sexual behaviour indicators among adults receiving regular risk reduction counselling and optional initiation of pre-exposure prophylaxis in an HIV vaccine preparedness 7
Community engagement to support public health: mixed-method evaluation evidence on COVID-19 attitudes and practices in Lao PDR7
Low body mass index as a predictor of sputum culture conversion and treatment outcomes among patients receiving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lesotho7
Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review7
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care and factors associated with care disruption in Kenya and Tanzania7
Feasibility and impact of a patient support group care model on diabetes and hypertension care in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: a quasi-experimental study7
Improving WASH facilities and practices in Bangladeshi schools: progress and challenges from 2014 to 20187
Childhood undernutrition in North Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies7
Assessment of adherence to the National Malaria Guidelines in treatment management of malaria among children under five in integrated community case management in the DRC7
Role of actor networks in primary health care implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review7
The Health Innovation Impact Checklist: a tool to improve the development and reporting of impact models for global health innovations6
The experiences and challenges of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change programming in Africa: a scoping review6
Research capacity-building of midwives expanding access to safe abortion in the Democratic Republic of Congo: transnational research collaborations with civil society organizations6
Improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a message co-design process for a national mHealth intervention in Colombia6
Understanding the meanings of male partner support in the adherence to therapy among HIV-positive women: a gender analysis6
Client satisfaction with antiretroviral treatment services in South Ethiopian public health facilities: an institution-based cross-sectional survey6
‘I was in need of somewhere to release my hurt:’ Addressing the mental health of vulnerable adolescent mothers in Harare, Zimbabwe, through self-help groups6
Exploring multisectoral collaboration in implementing comprehensive sexuality education framework at the provincial level in Zambia: a qualitative study6
Community engagement to develop a dialogue-drama on adolescent pregnancy in a marginalised migrant population on the Thailand-Myanmar border: an ethnographic approach to participatory action research6
Development and validation of a prognosis risk score model for neonatal mortality in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A prospective cohort study6
Perceptions of child death in Jigawa State, Nigeria: a mixed-methods study on how sociocultural nuances shape paediatric mortality reporting6
A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action6
Perspectives on common chronic diseases in adult cancer patients in South Africa5
Recovery and long-term health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a prospective cohort in an urban setting, Kenya5
Factors associated with unplanned readmissions for patients with mental and behavioural disorders in China: a quantitative analysis5
Community-supported self-administered tuberculosis treatment combined with active tuberculosis screening: a pilot experience in Conakry, Guinea5
A systematic review of the determinants of job satisfaction in healthcare workers in health facilities in Gulf Cooperation Council countries5
Factors contributing to pre-treatment loss to follow-up in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis: a qualitative evidence synthesis of patient and healthcare worker perspectives5
Association between delayed cesarean section and severe maternal and adverse newborn outcomes in the Somaliland context: a cohort study in a national referral hospital5
Strengthening Global Health Research5
Quantitative evaluation of Zindagii Shoista (Living with Dignity) intervention to prevent violence against women in Tajikistan5
Quality of sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young people in public health facilities in Southwest Nigeria: a mystery client study5
Transforming care for patients living with diabetes in rural Mexico: a qualitative study of patient and provider experiences and perceptions of shared medical appointments5
Engaging youth in global health and social justice: a decade of experience teaching a high school summer course5
Governance systems for skilled health worker migration, their public value and competing priorities: an interpretive scoping review5
Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey5
Agreement between cause of death assignment by computer-coded verbal autopsy methods and physician coding of verbal autopsy interviews in South Africa5
Lessons from an eight-country community health data harmonization collaborative5
A comprehensive approach to optimizing malaria prevention in pregnant women: evaluating the efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and resistance of IPTp-SP and IPTp-DP5
Comparing program supervision with an external RADAR evaluation of quality of care in integrated community case management for childhood illnesses in Mali5
Awareness of postpartum depression among midwives and pregnant women in Arkhangelsk, Arctic Russia5
Does training on the WHO package of essential noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions enhance consultation quality? A real-world assessment of adherence to PEN protocol in primary health centres i5
Evaluation of a comprehensive maternal newborn health intervention in rural Tanzania: single-arm pre-post coverage survey results5
Strengthening teamwork and respect (STAR) in maternity units: developing a health system intervention in South Africa5
How does community health feature in Global Financing Facility planning documents to support reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNAH-N)? insights from six fra5
Putting co-creation into practice: lessons learned from developing a midwife-led quality improvement intervention5
Parenting with nutrition education and unconditional cash reduce maternal depressive symptoms and improve quality of life: findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in urban Bangladesh5
Level of elderly-supportive infrastructure, fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease hospitalisations: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Wuhan4
Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana4
Comparing AI and human-generated health messages in an Arabic cultural context4
The benefits, barriers, and specific needs of palliative care for adults with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review4
A ‘training of trainers’ programme for operational research: increasing capacity remotely4
Exploratory validation of relationship functioning and non-pregnant partner behavior scales in pregnant people living with HIV in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa4
Co-creation of a toolkit to assist risk communication and clinical decision-making in severe preeclampsia: SPOT-Impact study design4
Dismantling and reimagining global health education4
Prevalence and social determinants of smoking among men in Mauritius: a cross-sectional study4
Service providers’ self-perceived competence in supporting women with disabilities subjected to intimate partner violence: insights from a Swedish survey4
Cash transfer, maternal and child health outcomes: a scoping review in sub-Saharan Africa4
Medical educators’ perspectives on the barriers and enablers of teaching public health in the undergraduate medical schools: a systematic review4
Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana: the CARE diabetes project qualitative study protocol4
The role of digital health in pandemic preparedness and response: securing global health?4
Towards optimising children’s capability and tackling relative child poverty in high-income countries: the cases of Japan, Sweden and the UK since 20004
Catalyzing action on HIV/SRH integration: lessons from Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe to spur investment4
Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic: trends in development assistance committee countries’ aid allocation, 2011–20214
The influence of internship training experience on Kenyan and Ugandan doctors’ career intentions and decisions: a qualitative study4
How interventions to maintain services during the COVID-19 pandemic strengthened systems for delivery of maternal and child health services: a case-study of Wakiso District, Uganda4
Supporting early-career women researchers: lessons from a global mentorship programme4
Factors associated with cessation of smoking in health professionals: a scoping review4
Mediating effects of women’s empowerment on dietary diversity during pregnancy in Central West Ethiopia: A structural equation modelling4
Workplace violence against healthcare workers in Pakistan; call for action, if not now, then when? A systematic review4
The global failure of facing the pandemic4
Improving disease surveillance data analysis, interpretation, and use at the district level in Tanzania4
‘Too much, too little’ – heat wave impact during pregnancy and the need for adaptation measures4
Evaluating the programme and behavior change theories of a community alcohol education intervention in rural Sri Lanka: a study protocol4
A study protocol for developing a spatial vulnerability index for infectious diseases of poverty in the Caribbean region4
Injury mortality in South Africa: a 2009 and 2017 comparison to track progress to meeting sustainable development goal targets4
Health-related quality of life among adult patients with cancer in Uganda – a cross-sectional study3
Weather, climate, and climate change research to protect human health in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia3
E-Questionnaire on health knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP-Health) for Brazilian students in distance learning3
Cultivating resilience and adaptability through hands-on One Health3
Exploring healthcare workers’ experiences of managing patients returning to HIV care in Johannesburg, South Africa3
Assessing the role of depression in reducing intimate partner violence perpetration among young men living in urban informal settlements using a mediation analysis of the Stepping Stones and Creating 3
Implementation barriers and facilitators of Moyo foetal heart rate monitor during labour in public hospitals in Nepal3
The effectiveness of rural community health workers in improving health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review3
The community support and its role in adolescent pregnancy and school reintegration in rural Rwanda: a mixed-methods study3
Recruiting hard-to-reach populations via respondent driven sampling for mobile phone surveys in Colombia: a qualitative study3
Network analysis of assistive technology stakeholders in Malawi3
Estimating non-communicable disease treatment costs using probability-based cost estimation3
Patients with stress-induced exhaustion disorder and their experiences of physical activity prescription in a group context3
The evolution, facilitators, barriers, and additional activities of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance platform in polio eradication programme Bangladesh: a mixed-method study3
An assessment of immediate newborn care readiness and availability in Nepal3
The association between alcohol consumption and intimate partner violence in young male perpetrators in Mwanza, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study3
International pediatric surgery partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping literature review3
Workplace sexual harassment is associated with poor mental well-being among employees at a large Swedish university3
Protecting the healthcare workers in low- and lower-middle-income countries through vaccination: barriers, leverages, and next steps3
­­Eleven tips for operational researchers working with health programmes: our experience based on implementing differentiated tuberculosis care in south India3
The impact of COVID-19 and national pandemic responses on health service utilisation in seven low- and middle-income countries3
Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution?3
Effect of homemade peanut oil consumption during pregnancy on low birth weight and preterm birth outcomes: a cohort study in Southwestern China3
Population mobility : spatial spillover effect of government health expenditure in China3
Financial inclusion for people with disability: a scoping review3
Women’s sexual and reproductive health in war and conflict: are we seeing the full picture?3
Cost-effectiveness of Lifestyle Africa : an adaptation of the diabetes prevention programme for delivery by community health workers in urban South Africa3
Exploring women’s exposure to marketing of commercial formula products: a qualitative marketing study from two sites in South Africa3
Generalisability of and lessons learned from a mixed-methods study conducted in three low- and middle-income countries to identify care pathways for atrial fibrillation3
Evaluating the implementation of person-centred care and simulation-based learning in a midwifery education programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a study protocol3
Implementation of a three-pillar training intervention to improve maternal and neonatal healthcare in the Democratic Republic Of Congo: a process evaluation study in an urban health zone3
A cluster randomized controlled trial for measuring the impact of a social norm intervention addressing child marriage in Pirgacha in Rangpur district of Bangladesh: study protocol for evaluati3
The maternal and newborn health eCohort to track longitudinal care quality: study protocol and survey development3
Maternal betel quid use during pregnancy and child growth: a cohort study from rural Bangladesh3
Validating the diagnostic accuracy of medical certification: a population-level comparison between verbal autopsy and Saudi medical records causes of death of deceased with type 2 diabetes3
The role of principled engagement in public health policymaking: the case of Zambia’s prolonged efforts to develop a comprehensive tobacco control policy3
Mortality transition over a quarter century in rural South Africa: findings from population surveillance in Agincourt 1993-20183
Relevance of assistive technology and the sustainable development goals to stakeholder organizations in Malawi3
Successful task shifting: a mixed-methods cross-sectional evaluation of an emergency obstetric care program to increase access to cesarean sections in rural Nepal3
The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) study protocol: a multi-country mixed-method evaluation of pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms3
Training program for female community volunteers to combat COVID 19 in rural Nepal3
Form and functioning: contextualising the start of the Global Financing Facility policy processes in Burkina Faso3
NGO perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for real-world evaluation: a qualitative study3
Hypertension screening, awareness, treatment, and control: a study of their prevalence and associated factors in a nationally representative sample from Nepal3
Ten years of ear, nose and throat (ENT) services in Southern Africa: a scoping review3
Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana : receipt and utilization among persons with TB notified under the National TB Elimination Program in India, 20223
Essential newborn care practices for healthy newborns at a district hospital in Pemba, Tanzania: a cross-sectional observational study utilizing video recordings3
Tailoring an evidence-based clinical intervention and training package for the treatment and prevention of comorbid heavy drinking and depression in middle-income country settings: the development of 3
What to scale first? A cross-sectional analysis of factors affecting cesarean delivery rates at first referral units in Bihar, India3
Health system response to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV policy changes in Zambia: a health system dynamics analysis of primary health care facilities3
Misinformation, infighting, backlash, and an ‘endless’ recovery; policymakers recount challenges and mitigating measures after a vaccine scare in the Philippines3
Beyond the labels: Classifying countries by child health outcomes – A cluster analysis of child mortality and child-health data3
Colonization and decolonization of global health: which way forward?3
Implementing the QUALI-DEC project in Argentina, Burkina Faso, Thailand and Viet Nam: a process delineation and theory-driven process evaluation protocol3
Effectiveness of oral health promotion interventions for people with type 2 diabetes delivered by non-dental health care professionals: a systematic review3
Framing the future of the COVID-19 response operations in 2022 in the WHO African region3
Feasibility and acceptability of peer-delivered interventions using mHealth for PrEP services among adolescent girls and young women in DREAMS program in Botswana3
Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a package of interventions to improve the performance of health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to deliver adolescent and youth sexual and 3
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