OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Health Action is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Social determinants of health: the role of effective communication in the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries	99
COVID-19 in Germany and China: mitigation versus elimination strategy	55
Eco-epidemiological assessment of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, January–February 2020	52
Demographic, regional and temporal trends of hyperuricemia epidemics in mainland China from 2000 to 2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	52
Strengthening research capacity in LMICs to address the global NCD burden	46
Fast food consumption among young adolescents aged 12–15 years in 54 low- and middle-income countries	42
How addressing menstrual health and hygiene may enable progress across the Sustainable Development Goals	42
The evolution of minimally invasive tissue sampling in postmortem examination: a narrative review	37
Describing the pattern of the COVID-19 epidemic in Vietnam	32
Routine health management information system data in Ethiopia: consistency, trends, and challenges	31
Utility of the three-delays model and its potential for supporting a solution-based approach to accessing intrapartum care in low- and middle-income countries. A qualitative evidence synthesis	31
Lessons learned about co-creation: developing a complex intervention in rural Peru	29
Interrelationships between early antenatal care, health facility delivery and early postnatal care among women in Uganda: a structural equation analysis	28
Implications of COVID-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries	26
Reconciling model predictions with low reported cases of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights from Madagascar	26
Climate change and health in urban informal settlements in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review of health impacts and adaptation strategies	25
Right To Play’s intervention to reduce peer violence among children in public schools in Pakistan: a cluster-randomized controlled trial	23
Death registration in Nigeria: a systematic literature review of its performance and challenges	21
The global role, impact, and limitations of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in breast cancer screening: a scoping review and recommendations to promote health equity for all	20
The political economy of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation: an analysis from seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa	20
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness, attitudes and uptake willingness among young people: gender differences and associated factors in two South African districts	19
Evaluation of an integrated HIV and hypertension management model in rural South Africa: a mixed methods approach	19
Scale-up integrated care for diabetes and hypertension in Cambodia, Slovenia and Belgium (SCUBY): a study design for a quasi-experimental multiple case study	19
Maternal mortality in the covid-19 pandemic: findings from a rapid systematic review	18
Does health insurance contribute to improved utilization of health care services for the elderly in rural Tanzania? A cross-sectional study	18

The Menstrual Practices Questionnaire (MPQ): development, elaboration, and implications for future research	17
The roles, responsibilities and perceptions of community health workers and ward-based primary health care outreach teams: a scoping review	17
Perinatal death in Northern Uganda: incidence and risk factors in a community-based prospective cohort study	17
Informing ‘good’ global health research partnerships: A scoping review of guiding principles	16
Strategies for financing social health insurance schemes for providing universal health care: a comparative analysis of five countries	15
Identifying geographical heterogeneity of pulmonary tuberculosis in southern Ethiopia: a method to identify clustering for targeted interventions	15
Adding video-debriefing to Helping-Babies-Breathe training enhanced retention of neonatal resuscitation knowledge and skills among health workers in Uganda: a cluster randomized trial	15
Factors associated with low adherence to medication among patients with type 2 diabetes at different healthcare facilities in southern Bangladesh	15
The role of participation and community mobilisation in preventing violence against women and girls: a programme review and critique	15
Out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care: a population-based study in low-income urban Medellin, Colombia	15
Negotiating social norms, the legacy of vertical health initiatives and contradicting health policies: a qualitative study of health professionals’ perceptions and attitudes of providing adolescent se	15
Investigation of stillbirth causes in Suriname: application of the WHO ICD-PM tool to national-level hospital data	14
Availability and advertising of sugar sweetened beverages in South African public primary schools following a voluntary pledge by a major beverage company: a mixed methods study	13
Making a COVID-19 vaccine that works for everyone: ensuring equity and inclusivity in clinical trials	13
Factors contributing to the uptake of childhood vaccination in Galkayo District, Puntland, Somalia	13
Health and demographic surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: history, state of the art and future prospects	13
Increasing collaborative research output between early-career health researchers in Africa: lessons from the CARTA fellowship program	13
Barriers to, and facilitators of, the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax to prevent non-communicable diseases in Uganda: a policy landscape analysis	13
Syndemic contexts: findings from a review of research on non-communicable diseases and interviews with experts	13
Measuring management practices in primary health care facilities – development and validation of management practices scorecard in Nigeria	13
Study design: policy landscape analysis for sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in seven sub-Saharan African countries	13
Establishment of COVID-19 testing laboratory in resource-limited settings: challenges and prospects reported from Ethiopia	13
Disrespect and abuse during facility‐based childbirth in central Ethiopia	13
Delays during emergency obstetric care and their determinants among mothers who gave birth in South Gondar zone hospitals, Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study design	13
Dismantling and reimagining global health education	12
Cesarean delivery and associated socioeconomic factors and neonatal survival outcome in Kenya and Tanzania: analysis of national survey data	12
Estimating the healthcare cost of overweight and obesity in South Africa	12
Building Strong Primary Health Care to Tackle the Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal	12
Pregnancy outcomes among women born in Somalia and Sweden giving birth in the Stockholm area – a population-based study	12
Academic-humanitarian partnerships: leveraging strengths to combat COVID-19	12
Measuring mental health burden in humanitarian settings: a critical review of assessment tools	12
EviSIP: using evidence to change practice through mentorship – an innovative experience for reproductive health in the Latin American and Caribbean regions	12
Self-management and self-efficacy of women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review	12
National incidence, prevalence and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of common micronutrient deficiencies in Ethiopia from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the global burden of diseases study	12
Early detection of type 2 diabetes in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Stockholm – comparing reach of community and facility-based screening	12
Strengthening prevention of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases through sugar-sweetened beverages tax in Rwanda: a policy landscape analysis	12
Sexual and reproductive health mobile apps: results from a cross-sectional values and preferences survey to inform World Health Organization normative guidance on self-care interventions	12
Neonatal mortality rates, characteristics, and risk factors for neonatal deaths in Ghana: analyses of data from two health and demographic surveillance systems	12
A systems approach to assessing complexity in health interventions: an effectiveness decay model for integrated community case management	12
Community-based adult hearing care provided by community healthcare workers using mHealth technologies	11
Depression and mental wellbeing in people affected by leprosy in southern Nepal	11
Social media infodemics and social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty	11
Nutrition related non-communicable diseases and sugar sweetened beverage policies: a landscape analysis in Zambia	11
A twin disaster: Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and a cerebrospinal meningitis outbreak simultaneously in a low-resource country	11
Monitoring the status of selected health related sustainable development goals: methods and projections to 2030	10
Association between Maternal Plasma Ferritin Level and Infants’ Size at Birth: A Prospective Cohort Study in Rural Bangladesh	10
Strengthening resistance to the COVID-19 pandemic and fostering future resilience requires concerted action on obesity	10
Oral health conditions and correlates: a National Oral Health Survey of Rwanda	10
Governance systems for skilled health worker migration, their public value and competing priorities: an interpretive scoping review	10
Associations between caregiver mental health and young children’s behaviour in a rural Kenyan sample	10

Global progress in tobacco control: the question of policy compliance	10
Extreme temperatures and cardiovascular mortality: assessing effect modification by subgroups in Ganzhou, China	10
HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (ASSET) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care: protocol for pre-implementation p	10
Rape survivors in South Africa: analysis of the baseline socio-demographic and health characteristics of a rape cohort	10
Challenges with tracing patients on antiretroviral therapy who are late for clinic appointments in rural South Africa and recommendations for future practice	10
Women’s development group leaders’ promotion of maternal, neonatal and child health care in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study	10
Biological larviciding against malaria vector mosquitoes with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) – Long term observations and assessment of repeatability during an additional intervention	10
Antimicrobial resistance control efforts in Africa: a survey of the role of Civil Society Organisations	10
Factors influencing sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in Lao PDR	10
Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy	9
Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) strategic plans in low- and lower-middle income Sub-Saharan Africa: framing and policy response	9
The relevance of music therapy in paediatric and adolescent cancer patients: a scoping review	9
Community engagement and involvement in managing the COVID-19 pandemic among urban poor in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review and stakeholders mapping	9
Universal access to essential medicines as part of the right to health: a cross-national comparison of national laws, medicines policies, and health system indicators	9
Community-led cross-sectional study of social and employment circumstances, HIV and associated factors amongst female sex workers in South Africa: study protocol	9
Achieving equity in UHC interventions: who is left behind by neglected tropical disease programmes in Cameroon?	9
Lessons from community participation in primary health care and water resource governance in South Africa: a narrative review	9
Paediatric Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) – preparedness for implementation at primary care facilities in Malawi	9
Sexual and reproductive health communication between parents and high school adolescents in Vientiane Prefecture, Lao PDR	9
Factors associated with low tuberculosis preventive therapy prescription rates among health care workers in rural South Africa	9
Hypertension screening, awareness, treatment, and control: a study of their prevalence and associated factors in a nationally representative sample from Nepal	9
Factors associated with child malnutrition in mountainous ethnic minority communities in Lao PDR	9
Adaptation of a mobile phone health survey for risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in Colombia: a qualitative study	9
Neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm babies during infancy in Eastern Uganda: a prospective cohort study	9
The legal feasibility of adopting a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in seven sub-Saharan African countries	9
Changes in risk factors for non-communicable diseases associated with the ‘Healthy choices at work’ programme, South Africa	9
Knowledge, use (misuse) and perceptions of over-the-counter analgesics in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	8
Development of water insecurity scale for rural households in Cameroon- Central Africa	8
Ngutulu Kagwero (agents of change): study design of a participatory comic pilot study on sexual violence prevention and post-rape clinical care with refugee youth in a humanitarian setting in Uganda	8
Health literacy meets the life-course perspective: towards a conceptual framework	8
Community engagement in health systems interventions and research in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches	8
Developing a national health research agenda for Lao PDR: prioritising the research needs of stakeholders	8
The relationship between time spent during the first ANC contact, home visits and adherence to ANC contacts in Ghana	8
The need to incorporate the impact of population ageing into the post-COVID-19 policy and planning reset in Low and Middle Income Countries	8
Standardized mortality ratios between street-connected young people and the general age-equivalent population in an urban setting in Kenya from 2010 to 2015	8
Implementation of accelerated research: strategies for implementation as applied in a phase 1 Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo two-dose Ebola vaccine clinical trial in Uganda	8
Attitudes to and experiences of intimate partner violence among Rohingya women who married before eighteen years of age	8
Shifting the focus to functioning: essential for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3, inclusive Universal Health Coverage and supporting COVID-19 survivors	8
Momentum for policy change: alternative explanations for the increased interest in results-based financing in Uganda	8
Teacher Nomination of School-aged Children for Mental Health Services in a Low and Middle Income Country	8
What can we learn from studying control arms of randomised VAW prevention intervention evaluations: reflections on expected measurement error, meaningful change and the utility of RCTs	8
Facilitators and barriers for the delivery and uptake of cervical cancer screening in Indonesia: a scoping review	7
Assessing completeness of patient medical records of surgical and obstetric patients in Northern Tanzania	7
Diabetes prevalence and risk factors of early-onset adult diabetes: results from the Indonesian family life survey	7
The effectiveness of malaria camps as part of the Durgama Anchalare Malaria Nirakaran (DAMaN) program in Odisha, India: study protocol for a cluster-assigned quasi-experimental study	7
Using relevance mapping methodology to design an adolescent mental health intervention in India	7
Understanding non-communicable diseases: combining health surveillance with local knowledge to improve rural primary health care in South Africa	7
Comparative risk assessment of non-communicable diseases by evacuation scenario– a retrospective study in the 7 years following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident	7
Factors associated with non-utilization of postnatal care among newborns in the first 2 days after birth in Pakistan: a nationwide cross-sectional study	7
Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country	7
Spousal violence against women and its association with sociodemographic factors and husbands’ controlling behaviour: the findings of Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey (2015–2016)	7
Tanzanian women´s knowledge about Cervical Cancer and HPV and their prevalence of positive VIA cervical screening results. Data from a Prevention and Awareness Campaign in Northern Tanzania, 2017 – 20	7
Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past	7
Mortality transition over a quarter century in rural South Africa: findings from population surveillance in Agincourt 1993-2018	7
The midwife’s role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: protect and invest together – the Swedish example	7
Leveraging smart glasses for telemedicine to improve primary healthcare services and referrals in a remote rural district, Kingandu, DRC, 2019–2020	7
The global failure of facing the pandemic	7
Quality of family planning services for women of reproductive age in Lao PDR	7
Whistleblowing as an anti-corruption strategy in health and pharmaceutical organizations in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	7
High cellphone use associated with greater risk of depression among young women aged 15–24 years in Soweto and Durban, South Africa	7
Detection of Rift Valley Fever virus inter-epidemic activity in Kilimanjaro Region, North Eastern Tanzania	7
Nutrition-related non-communicable disease and sugar-sweetened beverage policies: a landscape analysis in Kenya	7