BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Global Health is 10. 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
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries721
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data445
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region358
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study268
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long234
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health214
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union204
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem202
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population187
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 se174
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response147
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia138
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal138
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context130
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman128
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis127
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis124
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos115
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals105
Creating health by building peace104
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review103
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia102
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 trial101
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana98
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health95
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study94
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review89
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling77
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it73
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review72
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories71
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact71
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse68
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support67
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 China67
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India67
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health67
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care66
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study65
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries65
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy64
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership62
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum61
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples60
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management59
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic59
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic59
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax58
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa57
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services56
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review53
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 countries52
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China52
‘Knowing how the machine works’: a novel framework for engaging with the political determinants of health51
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa50
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya49
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care from the perspective of fathers, partners and other family members: a qualitative evidence synthesis49
The impact of institutional delivery on neonatal and maternal health outcomes: evidence from a road upgrade programme in India49
The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era48
Co-creating an arts-based eye health education strategy in Zanzibar: process, outcomes and lessons learnt48
Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial47
Global insights can accelerate India’s journey towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem47
Associations between social determinants of health and interpersonal violence-related injury in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study46
A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries45
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada: a scoping review44
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships44
Community-level impacts of sanitation coverage on maternal and neonatal health: a retrospective cohort of survey data43
Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience: the case of Lebanon’s primary healthcare system43
Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso43
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine42
Accelerating and sustaining progress: PEPFAR’s path to achieving 95-95-95 by 203042
Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors41
Missing piece: the imperative of gender-disaggregated data in unraveling health inequity41
A missing piece in the Health for Peace agenda: gender diverse leadership and governance41
Design, implementation and outcomes of a national oxygen distribution network in Lesotho41
How overstated scientific claims undermine ethical principles in parenting interventions40
A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa40
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement in culturally sensitive research in southwestern Nigeria39
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 39
Primary healthcare system and provider responses to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan39
Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats39
Excess deaths reveal unequal impact of COVID-19 in Ecuador38
Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries38
Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–201638
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations38
Correction: A framework for community health worker optimisation in conflict settings: prerequisites and possibilities from Northwest Syria38
Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit37
Are there sex differences in completeness of death registration and quality of cause of death statistics? Results from a global analysis37
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 therapy37
Correction for assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the international alcohol control study36
The return of austerity imperils global health36
The academy, a battleground for justice: a call for prioritarian scholarship36
A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings36
Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018: a prospective surveillance36
‘Hybrid Survey’ approach to non-communicable disease surveillance in the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands35
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes35
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, So35
Acceptability and effectiveness of a study information video in improving the research consent process for youth: a non-inferiority trial35
Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease35
Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania34
Strengthening the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) COVID-19 vaccination information system34
The relationship between rural residence and cervical cancer screening in three sub-Saharan countries with different national screening policies34
Building professional capacity for quality improvement and patient safety in Georgia34
Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data34
The socioeconomic and health system determinants of financial protection indicators: a global systematic review (2008–2023)34
Noma as a neglected tropical disease: an opportunity to reconsider neglect in global health34
We move together: a realist evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Eastern Province, Zambia33
Tracking progress towards universal health coverage for essential health services in China, 2008–201833
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study32
Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness32
Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research32
Inequity of healthcare access and use and catastrophic health spending in slum communities: a retrospective, cross-sectional survey in four countries32
Health workforce supply, needs and financial feasibility in Lesotho: a labour market analysis32
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update32
Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates32
Tackling non-communicable disease risk in young adults across the Caribbean: a call to action32
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
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 202131
Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–202031
Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research31
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa31
Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control31
Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis31
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis30
Lessons learned from COVID-19 modelling efforts for policy decision-making in lower- and middle-income countries30
Factors associated with fluoxetine adherence among outpatients with common mental disorders in Western Kenya30
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 Pacific30
The social dimensions of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo30
Understanding factors impacting global priority of emergency care: a qualitative policy analysis29
Mpox containment strategies in China, 2022–2023: from preparedness to legal management29
Green space exposure and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global analysis using Apple mobility data29
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis29
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994–201829
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda, February 202129
Gender, mental health and resilience in armed conflict: listening to life stories of internally displaced women in Colombia29
Understanding community health worker employment preferences in Malang district, Indonesia, using a discrete choice experiment28
Estimating the burden of mpox among MSM in South Africa28
Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya28
Quality of clinical evidence and political justifications of ivermectin mass distribution of COVID-19 kits in eight Latin American countries28
Incentives in immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review mapping evidence on effectiveness and unintended consequences28
Autonomy and independence: a critical imperative for midwifery28
Recognising stillbirth as a loss of life and not a baby born without life28
Using scientific authorship criteria as a tool for equitable inclusion in global health research27
Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review27
‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala27
Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience27
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a quasi-experimental study27
Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations27
Conflict, sanctions and the struggles of Syrians for food security in the shadow of the UN Food Systems Summit 202127
Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau27
Evolution of assisted deliveries at primary healthcare centres in an unstable security context in Mali27
Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation26
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data26
AVIVA: a telehealth tool to improve cervical cancer screening in resource-constrained settings26
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change?26
Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis26
Supporting local ownership of transition processes: a key pathway to sustaining the HIV response26
Social-ecological predictors of HIV testing among adult men: analysis of the 2022 Tanzania demographic and health survey data26
Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study26
Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond26
Forecasting global progress in breast cancer control in the context of the sustainable development goals26
Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review25
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 experie25
The status and challenges of HPV vaccine programme in China: an exploration of the related policy obstacles25
COVID-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research25
Conscientious objection: a global health perspective24
Evaluation of a multicomponent child development intervention delivered through the government health system: a feasibility study24
Uncovering systemic barriers related to equity, diversity and inclusion in child health research: a scoping review addressing marginalised communities24
The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults24
Experiences of violence and discrimination among LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global cross-sectional analysis24
Geographic barriers to establishing a successful hospital referral system in rural Madagascar24
The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews24
Multilevel determinants of community health workers for an effective maternal and child health programme in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review24
Decolonising global health by decolonising academic publishing24
Engaging pharmacies in tuberculosis control: operational lessons from 19 case detection interventions in high-burden countries24
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency23
Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries23
Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health23
Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?23
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 series23
Are maternal vaccines effective and safe for mothers and infants? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials23
The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for23
The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord: establishing baseline consensus microbial data-sharing norms to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration23
Achieving universal health coverage; implementation of the ‘supporting physician retention in deprived areas’ programme in Iran23
The future of global health: restructuring governance through inclusive youth leadership23
Barriers to community engagement during the response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda22
A review of authorship in herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 202022
Fragile, handle with care: refining a key concept for global health and development22
Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand22
‘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
Does the implementation of UHC reforms foster greater equality in health spending? Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in Burkina Faso22
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape: current knowledge and gaps22
Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens22
Budgetary impact of using BPaL for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis22
Assessing the effectiveness of the expanded hepatitis A vaccination program in China: an interrupted time series design22
Climate change, resource insecurities and sexual and reproductive health among young adolescents in Kenya: a multi-method qualitative inquiry22
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–202122
Protracted armed conflict and maternal health: a scoping review of literature and a retrospective analysis of primary data from northwest Syria22
Quantifying the effects of attacks on health facilities on health service use in Northwest Syria: a case time series study from 2017 to 201922
Hierarchy of qualities in global health partnerships: a path towards equity and sustainability21
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda21
Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research21
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 c21
Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone21
Roadblocks and solutions to planning surgical care for a billion Indians21
Identifying implementation science research and policy priorities to advance universal health coverage: a multi-country modified Delphi study21
Midwife-led birthing centres in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda: an economic evaluation of case study sites21
Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis21
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings20
Retention in the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory20
Enhancing research integration to improve One Health actions: learning lessons from neglected tropical diseases experiences20
Vaginal examinations and mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth in health facilities: secondary analysis of labour observations in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria20
Oral iron supplementation and anaemia in children according to schedule, duration, dose and cosupplementation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 129 randomised trials20
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 data20
Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar20
Cost-effectiveness of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services in Africa: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial20
Strengthening public financial management in the health sector: a qualitative case study from South Africa20
Framing, moral foundations and health taxes: interpretive analysis of Ethiopia’s tobacco excise tax policy passage20
Why addressing inequality must be central to pandemic preparedness20
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–201920
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review20
Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study20
The effectiveness and sustainability of peer support interventions for persons living with HIV: a realist synthesis20
Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes20
Aligning health worker education and learning approaches with population health needs: WHO’s Family Planning and Comprehensive Abortion Care Toolkit for the primary healthcare workforce19
The complexities of conflict-induced severe malnutrition in Sudan19
Managing the challenges associated with decreasing demand for COVID-19 vaccination in Central and West Asia19
The effect of an annual temporary abstinence campaign on population-level alcohol consumption in Thailand: a time-series analysis of 23 years19
Addressing vaccine hesitancy: experimental evidence from nine high-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic19
Starfield’s 4Cs of NCD management in primary healthcare: a conceptual framework development from a case study of 19 countries19
Transitioning the COVID-19 response in the WHO African region: a proposed framework for rethinking and rebuilding health systems19
Optimising the reach of mobile health messaging programmes: an analysis of system generated data for the Kilkari programme across 13 states in India19
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 trial19
Caught in the crossfires: the Virchow Prize, its inaugural winner, and the quest to decolonise global health19
A systematic review of the indirect impacts of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health services and outcomes in humanitarian settings19
Building resilience for sexual and reproductive health at the community level: learning from three crisis-affected provinces in Pakistan19
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 Nigeria19
Risk communication and community engagement capacity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a call for action18
Making ‘resilience’ useful again: recognising health system resilience as an effective boundary object18
A comparative analysis of supply chain factors impacting COVID-19 vaccine security in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs)18
Data for whom? Experiences and perceptions of a perinatal eRegistry in two hospitals in Mtwara region, Tanzania18
Safeguarding in practice: anticipating, minimising and mitigating risk in teenage pregnancy research in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya18
Health system effectiveness of symptomatic malaria case management in Papua New Guinea18
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation: balancing equity and coverage in Pakistan18
Equitable access to quality trauma systems in low-income and middle-income countries: assessing gaps and developing priorities in Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa18
Home-based management of neonatal sepsis: 23 years of sustained implementation and effectiveness in rural Gadchiroli, India, 1996–201918
Postpartum recovery after severe maternal morbidity in Kilifi, Kenya: a grounded theory of recovery trajectories beyond 42 days18
Ethical preparedness of data monitoring committees (DMCs) to oversee international clinical trials: a qualitative descriptive study18
Can higher spending on primary healthcare mitigate the impact of ageing and non-communicable diseases on health expenditure?18
Norm diffusion in global health governance: the role of think tanks18
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