BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The median citation count of BMJ Global Health is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries713
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health421
Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial338
Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth: validity and reliability of community survey measures260
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data227
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long209
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples198
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care192
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India183
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review172
Research within international non-governmental organisation programmes in low and middle-income countries: challenges amid opportunities146
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos137
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals134
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis128
Creating health by building peace127
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman122
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories120
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health116
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review113
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support102
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study102
Governance factors that affect the implementation of health financing reforms in Tanzania: an exploratory study of stakeholders’ perspectives100
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership97
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context96
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia95
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management93
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response91
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic88
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum77
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy72
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana72
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia71
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services70
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region67
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis65
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal64
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study64
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa64
Humane shelter at home: a call to reimagine a core pandemic intervention63
A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of application-based tiered care (Mom’s Good Mood) in treating perinatal anxiety within a primary health care system in China62
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse62
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact62
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health62
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it62
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem60
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax59
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review59
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population58
A multi-country comparison between mobile phone surveys and face-to-face household surveys to estimate the prevalence of non-communicable diseases behavioural risk factors in low- and middle-income se57
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries56
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union55
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study52
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic52
The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era51
Design, implementation and outcomes of a national oxygen distribution network in Lesotho50
How to improve outbreak response: a case study of integrated outbreak analytics from Ebola in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo50
Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates49
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement in culturally sensitive research in southwestern Nigeria48
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa48
A missing piece in the Health for Peace agenda: gender diverse leadership and governance48
Missing piece: the imperative of gender-disaggregated data in unraveling health inequity48
Tackling non-communicable disease risk in young adults across the Caribbean: a call to action47
Associations between social determinants of health and interpersonal violence-related injury in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study45
Tracking progress towards universal health coverage for essential health services in China, 2008–201845
Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial44
The impact of institutional delivery on neonatal and maternal health outcomes: evidence from a road upgrade programme in India44
Co-creating an arts-based eye health education strategy in Zanzibar: process, outcomes and lessons learnt44
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships44
Accelerating and sustaining progress: PEPFAR’s path to achieving 95-95-95 by 203043
‘Hybrid Survey’ approach to non-communicable disease surveillance in the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands43
Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania43
A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa41
Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors41
Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso41
A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries40
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada: a scoping review40
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China39
Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats39
Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data39
Acceptability and effectiveness of a study information video in improving the research consent process for youth: a non-inferiority trial39
Estimating the contribution of transmission in primary healthcare clinics to community-wide TB disease incidence, and the impact of infection prevention and control interventions, in KwaZulu-Natal, So39
Excess deaths reveal unequal impact of COVID-19 in Ecuador38
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya38
Inequity of healthcare access and use and catastrophic health spending in slum communities: a retrospective, cross-sectional survey in four countries37
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine37
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care from the perspective of fathers, partners and other family members: a qualitative evidence synthesis37
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study36
Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research36
Global insights can accelerate India’s journey towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem36
Community-level impacts of sanitation coverage on maternal and neonatal health: a retrospective cohort of survey data36
Primary healthcare system and provider responses to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan36
Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience: the case of Lebanon’s primary healthcare system36
Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease35
The return of austerity imperils global health35
How overstated scientific claims undermine ethical principles in parenting interventions35
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes35
Effects of PACK training on the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by primary care clinicians during 2 years of implementation in Florianópolis, Brazil: extended follow-up 35
Enhanced or hindered research benefits? A realist review of community engagement and participatory research practices for non-communicable disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries35
Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness34
A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings34
Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries34
Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018: a prospective surveillance34
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update34
The academy, a battleground for justice: a call for prioritarian scholarship34
Strengthening the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) COVID-19 vaccination information system34
The Linda Kizazi study: a comparison of morbidity and mortality from birth to 2 years between children who are HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed, uninfected in the era of universal antiretroviral therapy33
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations33
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review33
Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit33
Health workforce supply, needs and financial feasibility in Lesotho: a labour market analysis32
We move together: a realist evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Eastern Province, Zambia32
Are there sex differences in completeness of death registration and quality of cause of death statistics? Results from a global analysis32
Correction for assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the international alcohol control study32
Correction: A framework for community health worker optimisation in conflict settings: prerequisites and possibilities from Northwest Syria32
Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–201632
Lessons learnt from daily oral PrEP delivery to inform national planning for PrEP ring introduction for women in low-income and middle-income countries: a qualitative inquiry of international stakehol32
Can youth-centred sexual and reproductive health self-care and contraceptive innovation address unintended pregnancy among girls and young women? Some reflections from Asia and the Pacific31
Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–202031
Lessons learned from COVID-19 modelling efforts for policy decision-making in lower- and middle-income countries31
Conflict, sanctions and the struggles of Syrians for food security in the shadow of the UN Food Systems Summit 202131
Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis31
Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review31
Understanding factors impacting global priority of emergency care: a qualitative policy analysis31
Engaging pharmacies in tuberculosis control: operational lessons from 19 case detection interventions in high-burden countries31
Recognising stillbirth as a loss of life and not a baby born without life30
AVIVA: a telehealth tool to improve cervical cancer screening in resource-constrained settings30
Incentives in immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review mapping evidence on effectiveness and unintended consequences30
Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau30
Estimating the burden of mpox among MSM in South Africa30
Green space exposure and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global analysis using Apple mobility data30
Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience30
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis30
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change?30
Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control29
Supporting local ownership of transition processes: a key pathway to sustaining the HIV response29
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data29
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis29
Significance of timely responses to mental health crises during unprecedented societal and global changes using an agile, empathic and user-centred digital approach: lessons from the Hong Kong experie28
Control of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa: fragile progress, new threats28
Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis28
Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review28
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994–201828
COVID-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research28
The social dimensions of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo27
Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond27
Social-ecological predictors of HIV testing among adult men: analysis of the 2022 Tanzania demographic and health survey data27
Geographic barriers to establishing a successful hospital referral system in rural Madagascar27
Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations27
Evolution of assisted deliveries at primary healthcare centres in an unstable security context in Mali26
Gender, mental health and resilience in armed conflict: listening to life stories of internally displaced women in Colombia26
Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research26
Autonomy and independence: a critical imperative for midwifery26
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa26
Quality of clinical evidence and political justifications of ivermectin mass distribution of COVID-19 kits in eight Latin American countries26
The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews26
Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study26
Using scientific authorship criteria as a tool for equitable inclusion in global health research26
Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya26
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda, February 202126
Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation26
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a quasi-experimental study26
‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala26
Understanding community health worker employment preferences in Malang district, Indonesia, using a discrete choice experiment26
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 202126
Forecasting global progress in breast cancer control in the context of the sustainable development goals26
The status and challenges of HPV vaccine programme in China: an exploration of the related policy obstacles25
Cost-effectiveness of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services in Africa: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial25
Does the implementation of UHC reforms foster greater equality in health spending? Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in Burkina Faso25
Decolonising global health by decolonising academic publishing25
Assessing the effectiveness of the expanded hepatitis A vaccination program in China: an interrupted time series design25
Conscientious objection: a global health perspective25
A review of authorship in herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 202024
Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health24
Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens24
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda24
Achieving universal health coverage; implementation of the ‘supporting physician retention in deprived areas’ programme in Iran24
Roadblocks and solutions to planning surgical care for a billion Indians24
The future of global health: restructuring governance through inclusive youth leadership24
Retention in the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory23
Experiences of violence and discrimination among LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global cross-sectional analysis23
Are maternal vaccines effective and safe for mothers and infants? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials23
Climate change, resource insecurities and sexual and reproductive health among young adolescents in Kenya: a multi-method qualitative inquiry23
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings23
Budgetary impact of using BPaL for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis23
The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for23
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review23
Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar23
Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries23
Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis22
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency22
Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research22
The journey to UHC: how well are vertical programmes integrated in the health benefits package? A scoping review22
Midwife-led birthing centres in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda: an economic evaluation of case study sites22
Multilevel determinants of community health workers for an effective maternal and child health programme in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review22
The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults22
‘What we lacked was the courage to take decisions that differed from the rest of the world’: expert perspectives on the role of evidence in COVID-19 policymaking in Iraq22
Evaluation of a multicomponent child development intervention delivered through the government health system: a feasibility study22
Improving risk analysis of the environmental drivers of the spillover, emergence/re-emergence and spread of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Marburg virus and Middle East respiratory syndrome c22
Building the evidence base for global health policy: the need to strengthen institutional networks, geographical representation and global collaboration22
Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?22
Hierarchy of qualities in global health partnerships: a path towards equity and sustainability22
The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord: establishing baseline consensus microbial data-sharing norms to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration22
Inequalities in use of hospitals for childbirth among rural women in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative analysis of 18 countries using Demographic and Health Survey data22
Quantifying the effects of attacks on health facilities on health service use in Northwest Syria: a case time series study from 2017 to 201921
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape: current knowledge and gaps21
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–202121
Barriers to community engagement during the response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda21
Fragile, handle with care: refining a key concept for global health and development21
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–201921
Improving healthcare accessibility for pregnant women and children in the context of health system strengthening initiatives and terrorist attacks in Central Mali: a controlled interrupted time series21
Protracted armed conflict and maternal health: a scoping review of literature and a retrospective analysis of primary data from northwest Syria21
Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand21
Norm diffusion in global health governance: the role of think tanks20
The autonomy of public health facilities in decentralised contexts: insights from applying a complexity lens in Kenya20
Data for whom? Experiences and perceptions of a perinatal eRegistry in two hospitals in Mtwara region, Tanzania20
Effects of a free health insurance programme for the poor on health service utilisation and financial protection in Senegal20
Enhancing research integration to improve One Health actions: learning lessons from neglected tropical diseases experiences20
Malnutrition in infants aged under 6 months: prevalence and anthropometric assessment – analysis of 56 low- and middle-income country DHS datasets20
Association between ambulance prehospital time and maternal and perinatal outcomes in Sierra Leone: a countrywide study20
National hospital costing systems matter for universal healthcare: the India PM-JAY experience20
Can higher spending on primary healthcare mitigate the impact of ageing and non-communicable diseases on health expenditure?20
Health system effectiveness of symptomatic malaria case management in Papua New Guinea20
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation: balancing equity and coverage in Pakistan20
Equitable access to quality trauma systems in low-income and middle-income countries: assessing gaps and developing priorities in Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa20
Whole of government and whole of society approaches: call for further research to improve population health and health equity20
Disseminating information on acute public health events globally: experiences from the WHO’s Disease Outbreak News20
Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional standardised patients study of adherence to national TB guidelines in urban Nigeria20
Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study20
Kenya’s experience implementing event-based surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic20
Strengthening public financial management in the health sector: a qualitative case study from South Africa20
Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte d’Ivoire: a cluster randomised controlled trial20
Caught in the crossfires: the Virchow Prize, its inaugural winner, and the quest to decolonise global health19
Implementing Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in all countries in the WHO African region: process challenges, lessons learnt and perspectives for th19
“If I wasn’t a pastor, I would be telling them about condoms, contraceptives and PrEP”—conflicts, dilemmas and credibility: qualitative insights from religious leaders and the promotion of pre-exposur19
Starfield’s 4Cs of NCD management in primary healthcare: a conceptual framework development from a case study of 19 countries19
Postpartum recovery after severe maternal morbidity in Kilifi, Kenya: a grounded theory of recovery trajectories beyond 42 days19
Vaginal examinations and mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth in health facilities: secondary analysis of labour observations in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria19
Primary health care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 South-East Asian countries: a cross-case synthesis with lessons for future health systems strengthening19
Claims data from health insurance programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an untapped resource to promote Universal Health Coverage19
Frailty: a global health challenge in need of local action19
Strengthening the primary care workforce to deliver high-quality care for non-communicable diseases in refugee settings: lessons learnt from a UNHCR partnership19
The effect of an annual temporary abstinence campaign on population-level alcohol consumption in Thailand: a time-series analysis of 23 years19
Public health emergency archetypes: a framework to guide efforts to ensure equitable access to medical countermeasures19
Framing, moral foundations and health taxes: interpretive analysis of Ethiopia’s tobacco excise tax policy passage19
Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways: a changing paradigm19
Effect of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services on case detection in Africa: the INPUT stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial19
Transitioning the COVID-19 response in the WHO African region: a proposed framework for rethinking and rebuilding health systems19
Risk communication and community engagement capacity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a call for action18
Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia18
The effectiveness and sustainability of peer support interventions for persons living with HIV: a realist synthesis18
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