OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Systems & Reform is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Quality of Primary Care in Cambodia: An Assessment of Knowledge and Effort of Public Sector Maternal and Child Care Providers	21
A Special Issue Honoring the Legacy of Adam Wagstaff	16
SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa	14
Has Strategic Purchasing Led to Improvements in Health Systems? A Narrative Review of Literature on Strategic Purchasing	14
Trust, Care Avoidance, and Care Experiences among Kenyan Women Who Delivered during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
The Consolidation of Risk Pools in the National Health Insurance Program of the Republic of Korea: Analysis of the Political Processes	11
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Building Institutions for Priority Setting in Health”	11
Applying Mobile Technology to Address Gender-Based Violence in Rural Nigeria: Experiences and Perceptions of Users and Stakeholders	10
County Hospital Responses to Funding Reforms in Zhejiang, China: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis	9
Preface to the Special Issue by Keizo Takemi, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan	9
Comprehensive Assessment of Health System Performance in Odisha, India	9
The Cervical Cancer Treatment Gap in Mexico Under Seguro Popular , 2006-2016	8
Preface to the Special Issue by Kichiro Matsumoto, President, Japan Medical Association	8
Potential Strengths and Weaknesses in Hospital Resilience in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Case Study	8
Cross-Programmatic Efficiency: The System is Greater Than the Sum of Its Programs	8
An Assessment of Provider Payment Mechanisms (PPMs) in Ethiopia: Implications for Redesign of PPMs and Progress Toward Universal Health Coverage	7
How to Pay for Telemedicine: A Comparison of Ten Health Systems	7
Scaling Up Departmental Health Insurance Units in Senegal: A Mixed-Method Study	7
The Evolution of Health Benefits Packages in Colombia: Thirty Years of Successes and Failures	6
Attributes and Organizational Factors that Enabled Innovation in Health Care Service Delivery during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Case Studies from Brazil, Canada and Japan	6
The Development of Health Technology Assessment in Taiwan: Perspectives and Analysis	6
Identifying Major Health-System Challenges in Developing Countries Using PERs: Equity is the Elephant in the Room	6
Improving Access to and Coverage of Rehabilitation Services through the Implementation of Rehabilitation in Primary Health Care: A Case Study from Chile	6
Understanding Impacts of Online Dual Practice on Health System Performance: A Qualitative Study in China	6
Resilience of Primary Health Care in Ukraine: Challenges of the Pandemic and War	6

Rethinking Japan’s Health System Sustainability Under the Planetary Health Framework	6
Roles and Dynamics within Community Mental Health Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography	5
Generating Political Priority for Primary Health Care Reform in Romania	5
Fifteen Lessons from Fifteen Years of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program in Thailand	5
Introduction to the Special Issue on Digital Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Global Health	5
Hospital Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Five Countries: A Multiple Case Study	5
Hospital Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multiple-Country Case Study	5
Economic Consequences of Ill-Health in Rural Ethiopia	5
Role of User Benefit Awareness in Health Coverage Utilization among the Poor in Cambodia	5
Rural–Urban Differences: Using Finer Geographic Classifications to Reevaluate Distance and Choice of Health Services in Malawi	5
Does Public Financial Management Save Life? Evidence from a Quantitative Review of PFM and Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan African Countries	5
Responses to Hospital Restrictions on Family Visits during the COVID-19 Epidemic in Mali and France	5