Published in Lancet on November 11, 2006
Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 2.89
The burden of surgical conditions and access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 2.74
A research agenda for malaria eradication: health systems and operational research. PLoS Med (2011) 2.53
Health financing for universal coverage and health system performance: concepts and implications for policy. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 2.26
Configuring balanced scorecards for measuring health system performance: evidence from 5 years' evaluation in Afghanistan. PLoS Med (2011) 1.90
Use of modern contraception by the poor is falling behind. PLoS Med (2007) 1.73
Assessment of a national voucher scheme to deliver insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women. CMAJ (2010) 1.71
Impact of insurance and supply of health professionals on coverage of treatment for hypertension in Mexico: population based study. BMJ (2007) 1.60
Population health metrics for surgery: effective coverage of surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries. World J Surg (2009) 1.55
Control of hypertension with medication: a comparative analysis of national surveys in 20 countries. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 1.31
Essential evidence for guiding health system priorities and policies: anticipating epidemiological transition in Africa. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.24
Twenty-five years of convoluted health reforms in Mexico. PLoS Med (2009) 1.19
Effective coverage: a metric for monitoring Universal Health Coverage. PLoS Med (2014) 1.18
The costs, benefits, and cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in Mexico. PLoS One (2007) 1.18
The democratization of health in Mexico: financial innovations for universal coverage. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 1.16
Estimating the coverage of mental health programmes: a systematic review. Int J Epidemiol (2014) 1.10
Economic and disease burden of dengue in Mexico. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2015) 1.07
Universal access: making health systems work for women. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.06
Strengthening preventive care programs: a permanent challenge for healthcare systems; lessons from PREVENIMSS México. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.04
Benchmarking health system performance across districts in Zambia: a systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions from 1990 to 2010. BMC Med (2015) 0.98
Topics in global public health. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2008) 0.96
Better health intelligence: a new era for civil registration and vital statistics? BMC Med (2015) 0.95
Development of a surgical capacity index: opportunities for assessment and improvement. World J Surg (2012) 0.90
Clinical benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of neonatal intensive care in Mexico. PLoS Med (2010) 0.89
Evaluation of health care system reform in Hubei Province, China. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2014) 0.86
A comprehensive approach to women's health: lessons from the Mexican health reform. BMC Womens Health (2012) 0.86
Benchmarking health system performance across states in Nigeria: a systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions and outcomes, 2000-2013. BMC Med (2015) 0.83
Benchmarking health system performance across regions in Uganda: a systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions, 1990-2011. BMC Med (2015) 0.82
Comparative Estimates of Crude and Effective Coverage of Measles Immunization in Low-Resource Settings: Findings from Salud Mesoamérica 2015. PLoS One (2015) 0.79
Disparity in maternal, newborn and child health services in high focus states in India: a district-level cross-sectional analysis. BMJ Open (2016) 0.79
Assessing quality across healthcare subsystems in Mexico. J Ambul Care Manage (2009) 0.78
When health systems are barriers to health care: challenges faced by uninsured Mexican kidney patients. PLoS One (2013) 0.78
How does the knowledge environment shape procurement practices for orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico? BMC Med Inform Decis Mak (2016) 0.75
A Performance Analysis of Public Expenditure on Maternal Health in Mexico. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Determining the Effective Coverage of Maternal and Child Health Services in Kenya, using Demographic and Health Survey Datasets: Tracking Progress towards Universal Health Coverage. Trop Med Int Health (2017) 0.75
Technical and scale efficiency in the delivery of child health services in Zambia: results from data envelopment analysis. BMJ Open (2017) 0.75
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 56.72
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 41.47
Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet (2006) 37.83
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet (2010) 33.69
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 26.95
Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease. Lancet (2002) 24.47
Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis. Lancet (2003) 20.07
Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 16.76
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis. Lancet (2011) 14.16
Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. Lancet (2009) 13.41
Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. Lancet (2010) 12.28
The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors. PLoS Med (2009) 12.13
Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 11.32
Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 11.22
The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. JAMA (2013) 10.43
India's Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: an impact evaluation. Lancet (2010) 9.90
Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 8.22
Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2011) 7.71
Rapid health transition in China, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 7.70
Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 7.62
Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors. Lancet (2005) 6.63
Trends in national and state-level obesity in the USA after correction for self-report bias: analysis of health surveys. J R Soc Med (2006) 6.11
Burden of depressive disorders by country, sex, age, and year: findings from the global burden of disease study 2010. PLoS Med (2013) 6.04
Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 5.36
Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors. Lancet (2003) 5.26
Public policy for the poor? A randomised assessment of the Mexican universal health insurance programme. Lancet (2009) 5.23
Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development. PLoS Med (2005) 4.64
Worldwide epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: a Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study. Circulation (2013) 4.60
Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data. PLoS Med (2007) 4.35
Global and regional mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke attributable to higher-than-optimum blood glucose concentration: comparative risk assessment. Lancet (2006) 4.26
Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs. Lancet (2007) 4.15
Comparability of self rated health: cross sectional multi-country survey using anchoring vignettes. BMJ (2004) 3.94
A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010. Blood (2013) 3.94
Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years. N Engl J Med (2017) 3.90
Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 3.89
The reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States. PLoS Med (2008) 3.73
Global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 3.65
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 3.59
Strengthening health information systems to address health equity challenges. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 3.46
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty. BMJ (2003) 3.42
Assessment of population-level effect of Avahan, an HIV-prevention initiative in India. Lancet (2011) 3.39
Assessing the effect of the 2001-06 Mexican health reform: an interim report card. Lancet (2006) 3.33
Net benefits: a multicountry analysis of observational data examining associations between insecticide-treated mosquito nets and health outcomes. PLoS Med (2011) 3.32
Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000. BMC Cancer (2002) 3.26
The global burden of ischemic heart disease in 1990 and 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Circulation (2014) 2.99
Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 2.89
Are Americans feeling less healthy? The puzzle of trends in self-rated health. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 2.88
Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study. PLoS Med (2004) 2.84
Access, utilization, quality, and effective coverage: an integrated conceptual framework and measurement strategy. Soc Sci Med (2005) 2.78
Absorptive capacity and disbursements by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: analysis of grant implementation. Lancet (2006) 2.67
The burden of HIV: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. AIDS (2013) 2.66
Temporal trends in ischemic heart disease mortality in 21 world regions, 1980 to 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Circulation (2014) 2.66
Trends and cardiovascular mortality effects of state-level blood pressure and uncontrolled hypertension in the United States. Circulation (2008) 2.65
Effectiveness of diabetes and hypertension management by rural primary health-care workers (Behvarz workers) in Iran: a nationally representative observational study. Lancet (2011) 2.61
Assessing the burden of disease in the United States using disability-adjusted life years. Am J Prev Med (2005) 2.40
China's health system performance. Lancet (2008) 2.36
Effect of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation on diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine coverage: an independent assessment. Lancet (2006) 2.35
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006. PLoS Med (2010) 2.32
Reductions in child mortality levels and inequalities in Thailand: analysis of two censuses. Lancet (2007) 2.30
The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996. Popul Health Metr (2006) 2.27
Global health development assistance remained steady in 2013 but did not align with recipients' disease burden. Health Aff (Millwood) (2014) 2.26
The global financial crisis has led to a slowdown in growth of funding to improve health in many developing countries. Health Aff (Millwood) (2011) 2.21
Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods. PLoS Med (2010) 2.14
A multi-method approach to measuring health-state valuations. Health Econ (2004) 2.10
Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers? PLoS Med (2008) 2.06
Developing a comprehensive time series of GDP per capita for 210 countries from 1950 to 2015. Popul Health Metr (2012) 1.95
A "politically robust" experimental design for public policy evaluation, with application to the Mexican universal health insurance program. J Policy Anal Manage (2007) 1.94
Management of diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors in seven countries: a comparison of data from national health examination surveys. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.84
Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in United States counties, 2001-2009. PLoS One (2013) 1.81
The promise of prevention: the effects of four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in the United States. PLoS Med (2010) 1.78
Has the DOTS strategy improved case finding or treatment success? An empirical assessment. PLoS One (2008) 1.74
Prevalence and management of diabetes and associated risk factors by regions of Thailand: Third National Health Examination Survey 2004. Diabetes Care (2007) 1.71
Demographic and epidemiologic drivers of global cardiovascular mortality. N Engl J Med (2015) 1.70
Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. BMC Med (2014) 1.66
Incorporating loss to follow-up in estimates of survival among HIV-infected individuals in sub-Saharan Africa enrolled in antiretroviral therapy programs. J Infect Dis (2012) 1.65
Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme. BMJ (2008) 1.61
Impact of insurance and supply of health professionals on coverage of treatment for hypertension in Mexico: population based study. BMJ (2007) 1.60
Nets, spray or both? The effectiveness of insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying in reducing malaria morbidity and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Malar J (2013) 1.52
Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet HIV (2016) 1.51