Published in Health Policy on December 15, 2004
Factors affecting utilization of skilled maternal care in Northwest Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2013) 1.79
The basic principles of migration health: population mobility and gaps in disease prevalence. Emerg Themes Epidemiol (2006) 1.70
Human resources and the quality of emergency obstetric care in developing countries: a systematic review of the literature. Hum Resour Health (2009) 1.50
Getting women to hospital is not enough: a qualitative study of access to emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh. Qual Saf Health Care (2006) 1.43
Quality of obstetric care in public-sector facilities and constraints to implementing emergency obstetric care services: evidence from high- and low-performing districts of Bangladesh. J Health Popul Nutr (2009) 1.39
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in changing health systems. Glob Public Health (2014) 1.14
Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 1.09
'How to know what you need to do': a cross-country comparison of maternal health guidelines in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania. Implement Sci (2012) 1.06
Comparative health systems research in a context of HIV/AIDS: lessons from a multi-country study in South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. Health Res Policy Syst (2007) 0.96
Unintended pregnancies and the use of maternal health services in Southwestern Ethiopia. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2013) 0.95
The effects of pregnancy intention on the use of antenatal care services: systematic review and meta-analysis. Reprod Health (2013) 0.95
Developing a tool to measure satisfaction among health professionals in sub-Saharan Africa. Hum Resour Health (2013) 0.92
Head of household education level as a factor influencing whether delivery takes place in the presence of a skilled birth attendant in Busia, Uganda: a cross-sectional household study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 0.92
Strategies to increase demand for maternal health services in resource-limited settings: challenges to be addressed. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.90
Maternal care in rural China: a case study from Anhui province. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 0.90
Identifying implementation bottlenecks for maternal and newborn health interventions in rural districts of the United Republic of Tanzania. Bull World Health Organ (2015) 0.88
The safety and quality of childbirth in the context of health systems: mapping maternal health provision in Lebanon. Midwifery (2010) 0.87
Health system capacity: maternal health policy implementation in the state of Gujarat, India. Glob Health Action (2013) 0.86
Timing of First Antenatal Care Attendance and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in Arba Minch Town and Arba Minch District, Gamo Gofa Zone, South Ethiopia. J Environ Public Health (2015) 0.85
Patterns and determinants of care seeking for obstetric complications in rural northwest Bangladesh: analysis from a prospective cohort study. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.82
Health system context and implementation of evidence-based practices-development and validation of the Context Assessment for Community Health (COACH) tool for low- and middle-income settings. Implement Sci (2015) 0.81
Maternal health-seeking behavior: the role of financing and organization of health services in Ghana. Glob J Health Sci (2013) 0.80
Who gives birth in private facilities in Asia? A look at six countries. Health Policy Plan (2014) 0.79
The Health Extension Program and Its Association with Change in Utilization of Selected Maternal Health Services in Tigray Region, Ethiopia: A Segmented Linear Regression Analysis. PLoS One (2015) 0.77
Socioeconomic determinants of use of reproductive health services in Ghana. Health Econ Rev (2016) 0.75
Adequacy of public maternal care services in Brazil. Reprod Health (2016) 0.75
Evaluating complex health financing interventions: using mixed methods to inform further implementation of a novel PBI intervention in rural Malawi. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
Quality management: where is the evidence? Developing an indicator-based approach in Kenya. Int J Qual Health Care (2016) 0.75
Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 7.23
Health systems and access to antiretroviral drugs for HIV in Southern Africa: service delivery and human resources challenges. Reprod Health Matters (2006) 4.15
Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on: lessons for the future of health systems strengthening. Lancet (2013) 4.03
Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study. Soc Sci Med (2002) 3.90
Building the field of health policy and systems research: an agenda for action. PLoS Med (2011) 3.54
Building the field of health policy and systems research: social science matters. PLoS Med (2011) 3.46
Building the field of health policy and systems research: framing the questions. PLoS Med (2011) 3.21
To retain or remove user fees?: reflections on the current debate in low- and middle-income countries. Appl Health Econ Health Policy (2006) 3.06
Health service utilization in the former soviet union: evidence from eight countries. Health Serv Res (2004) 3.01
The Global Fund: managing great expectations. Lancet (2004) 2.94
Prison health in Russia: the larger picture. J Public Health Policy (2005) 2.57
Health sector reforms and human resources for health in Uganda and Bangladesh: mechanisms of effect. Hum Resour Health (2007) 2.25
A review of the application and contribution of discrete choice experiments to inform human resources policy interventions. Hum Resour Health (2009) 2.12
Contextual influences on health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya. Implement Sci (2009) 2.02
Exploring inequalities in access to and use of maternal health services in South Africa. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 2.01
Increasing access to health workers in underserved areas: a conceptual framework for measuring results. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.96
Costs of maternal health care services in three anglophone African countries. Int J Health Plann Manage (2003) 1.77
Overcoming access barriers for facility-based delivery in low-income settings: insights from Bangladesh and Uganda. J Health Popul Nutr (2006) 1.67
Developing a tool to measure health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya. Hum Resour Health (2009) 1.67
Implementing general practice in Russia: getting beyond the first steps. BMJ (2005) 1.56
Measuring health workers' motivation in rural health facilities: baseline results from three study districts in Zambia. Hum Resour Health (2013) 1.54
Transactional relationships and sex with a woman in prostitution: prevalence and patterns in a representative sample of South African men. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.53
The virgin cleansing myth: cases of child rape are not exotic. Lancet (2002) 1.47
Attracting and retaining health workers in rural areas: investigating nurses' views on rural posts and policy interventions. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.40
Assessing access barriers to maternal health care: measuring bypassing to identify health centre needs in rural Uganda. Health Policy Plan (2009) 1.33
Closing the gaps: from science to action in maternal, newborn, and child health in Africa. PLoS Med (2010) 1.24
Quality and equity of private sector care for sexually transmitted diseases in South Africa. Health Policy Plan (2002) 1.23
Universal health coverage: a quest for all countries but under threat in some. Value Health (2012) 1.23
Research, evidence and policymaking: the perspectives of policy actors on improving uptake of evidence in health policy development and implementation in Uganda. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.20
The influence of health systems on hypertension awareness, treatment, and control: a systematic literature review. PLoS Med (2013) 1.20
The persistence of irregular treatment of hypertension in the former Soviet Union. J Epidemiol Community Health (2012) 1.17
Aligning vertical interventions to health systems: a case study of the HIV monitoring and evaluation system in South Africa. Health Res Policy Syst (2012) 1.17
The human perspective on health care reform: coping with diabetes in Kyrgyzstan. Int J Health Plann Manage (2004) 1.16
Innovation to improve health care provision and health systems in sub-Saharan Africa - promoting agency in mid-level workers and district managers. Glob Public Health (2011) 1.11
International maternal health indicators and middle-income countries: Russia. BMJ (2005) 1.09
Towards improving hospital performance in Uganda and Zambia: reflections and opportunities for autonomy. Health Policy (2002) 1.09
''If they rape me, I can't blame them": reflections on gender in the social context of child rape in South Africa and Namibia. Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.08
Life saving or money wasting? Perceptions of caesarean sections among users of services in rural Bangladesh. Health Policy (2006) 1.08
'It makes me want to run away to Saudi Arabia': management and implementation challenges for public financing reforms from a maternity ward perspective. Health Policy Plan (2004) 1.05
Measuring health system strengthening: application of the balanced scorecard approach to rank the baseline performance of three rural districts in Zambia. PLoS One (2013) 1.05
Irregular treatment of hypertension in the former Soviet Union. J Epidemiol Community Health (2010) 1.04
The fragmentary federation: experiences with the decentralized health system in Russia. Health Policy Plan (2006) 1.03
"Other patients are really in need of medical attention"--the quality of health services for rape survivors in South Africa. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 1.02
The role of Clinical Officers in the Kenyan health system: a question of perspective. Hum Resour Health (2013) 1.00
Interventions to manage dual practice among health workers. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2011) 1.00
Men, prostitution and the provider role: understanding the intersections of economic exchange, sex, crime and violence in South Africa. PLoS One (2012) 0.99
An analysis of trends and determinants of health insurance and healthcare utilisation in the Russian population between 2000 and 2004: the 'inverse care law' in action. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 0.99
Prescribing in maternity care in Russia: the legacy of Soviet medicine. Health Policy (2007) 0.99
The impacts of decentralization on health care seeking behaviors in Uganda. Int J Health Plann Manage (2006) 0.99
Aid alignment: a longer term lens on trends in development assistance for health in Uganda. Global Health (2013) 0.98
How does investment in research training affect the development of research networks and collaborations? Health Res Policy Syst (2013) 0.98
The impact of Fogarty International Center research training programs on public health policy and program development in Kenya and Uganda. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.98
Knowledge of the health impacts of smoking and public attitudes towards tobacco control in the former Soviet Union. Tob Control (2012) 0.97
Systems thinking in practice: the current status of the six WHO building blocks for health system strengthening in three BHOMA intervention districts of Zambia: a baseline qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.97
Stated preferences of doctors for choosing a job in rural areas of Peru: a discrete choice experiment. PLoS One (2012) 0.96
Campaigners fear that Russia's new tobacco law won't work. BMJ (2002) 0.95
Equity in maternal health in South Africa: analysis of health service access and health status in a national household survey. PLoS One (2013) 0.95
Analyzing the implementation of the rural allowance in hospitals in North West Province, South Africa. J Public Health Policy (2011) 0.94
Non-professional health practitioners and referrals to facilities: lessons from maternal care in Bangladesh. Health Policy Plan (2007) 0.94
Job preferences of nurses and midwives for taking up a rural job in Peru: a discrete choice experiment. PLoS One (2012) 0.94
Adverse or acceptable: negotiating access to a post-apartheid health care contract. Global Health (2014) 0.93
Variations in obstetric practice in Russia: a story of professional autonomy, isolation and limited evidence. Int J Health Plann Manage (2009) 0.93
A systematic mapping of funders of maternal health intervention research 2000-2012. Global Health (2014) 0.93
Health systems performance assessment in low-income countries: learning from international experiences. Global Health (2014) 0.92
Malaria treatment policy change in Uganda: what role did evidence play? Malar J (2014) 0.92
Environmental and social factors as determinants of respiratory dysfunction in junior schoolchildren in Moscow. J Public Health (Oxf) (2004) 0.92
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: exploring dual practice and its management in Kampala, Uganda. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 0.92
Health and demographic surveillance sites contribute population-based data on maternal deaths in rural areas. S Afr Med J (2007) 0.92
Appealing to altruism: an alternative strategy to address the health workforce crisis in developing countries? J Public Health (Oxf) (2012) 0.91
Perspectives on the role of stakeholders in knowledge translation in health policy development in Uganda. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.91
The desirability and feasibility of scaling up community health insurance in low-income settings--lessons from Armenia. Soc Sci Med (2006) 0.91
Making the first global society for health systems research truly global. Cent Eur J Public Health (2012) 0.91
Policy implementation and financial incentives for nurses in South Africa: a case study on the occupation-specific dispensation. Glob Health Action (2013) 0.91
How can measles eradication strengthen health care systems? J Infect Dis (2011) 0.91
Negotiating care: patient tactics at an urban South African hospital. J Health Serv Res Policy (2010) 0.90
Diabetes in Kyrgyzstan: changes between 2002 and 2009. Int J Health Plann Manage (2012) 0.89
The roles and influence of actors in the uptake of evidence: the case of malaria treatment policy change in Uganda. Implement Sci (2014) 0.88
Reforming sanitary-epidemiological service in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: an exploratory study. BMC Public Health (2010) 0.87
Democracy and growth in divided societies: A health-inequality trap? Soc Sci Med (2011) 0.87
Prevalence and factors associated with the use of alternative (folk) medicine practitioners in 8 countries of the former Soviet Union. BMC Complement Altern Med (2013) 0.86
Modelling the potential impact and cost of scaling-up male circumcision in resource poor settings: A case of Uganda. Afr J AIDS Res (2013) 0.86
Exploring new health markets: experiences from informal providers of transport for maternal health services in Eastern Uganda. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2011) 0.86
Financial interventions and movement restrictions for managing the movement of health workers between public and private organizations in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2014) 0.86
Mentorship in African health research training programs: an exploratory study of Fogarty International Center Programs in Kenya and Uganda. Educ Health (Abingdon) (2014) 0.85
One size does not fit all: investigating doctors' stated preference heterogeneity for job incentives to inform policy in Thailand. Health Econ (2013) 0.83
Administrative integration of vertical HIV monitoring and evaluation into health systems: a case study from South Africa. Glob Health Action (2013) 0.82
Cost-effectiveness analysis of human resources policy interventions to address the shortage of nurses in rural South Africa. Soc Sci Med (2012) 0.81
Measuring governance at health facility level: developing and validation of simple governance tool in Zambia. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2013) 0.80
Effects of changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers on health-worker supply. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2009) 0.80
Delivering babies in a time of transition in Tula, Russia. Health Policy Plan (2006) 0.79
A new year, a new era: Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union. Eur J Public Health (2007) 0.78
Inequalities in birth outcomes in Russia: evidence from Tula oblast. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2005) 0.78
Providers' constructions of the role of women in cervical cancer screening in Bulgaria and Romania. Soc Sci Med (2006) 0.78
Prescription for change: accessing medication in transitional Russia. Health Policy Plan (2011) 0.75
Equity in community health insurance schemes: evidence and lessons from Armenia. Health Policy Plan (2009) 0.75
After the Global Fund: who can sustain the HIV/AIDS response in Peru and how? Glob Public Health (2014) 0.75