Published in PLoS Med on August 23, 2011
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: framing the questions. PLoS Med (2011) 3.21
Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health. Int J Health Policy Manag (2015) 2.83
Evaluation, in three provinces, of the introduction and impact of China's National Essential Medicines Scheme. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 1.57
Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global health systems research. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 1.51
People-centred science: strengthening the practice of health policy and systems research. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 1.49
How does context influence performance of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries? Evidence from the literature. Health Res Policy Syst (2015) 1.49
A literature review of the disruptive effects of user fee exemption policies on health systems. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.41
Protocol: a realist review of user fee exemption policies for health services in Africa. BMJ Open (2012) 1.35
Rethinking health systems strengthening: key systems thinking tools and strategies for transformational change. Health Policy Plan (2012) 1.34
Expanding the frontiers of population nutrition research: new questions, new methods, and new approaches. Adv Nutr (2013) 1.28
Integrating HIV treatment with primary care outpatient services: opportunities and challenges from a scaled-up model in Zambia. Health Policy Plan (2012) 1.16
Health system barriers to access and use of magnesium sulfate for women with severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Pakistan: evidence for policy and practice. PLoS One (2013) 1.12
Health systems frameworks in their political context: framing divergent agendas. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.10
Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment? BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 1.08
The GAVI Alliance and the 'Gates approach' to health system strengthening. Glob Public Health (2014) 1.07
Contextual factors as a key to understanding the heterogeneity of effects of a maternal health policy in Burkina Faso? Health Policy Plan (2014) 1.02
Analysis of human resources for health strategies and policies in 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in response to GFATM and PEPFAR-funded HIV-activities. Global Health (2013) 1.01
Health systems integration of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2014) 0.99
Is 'mainstreaming AYUSH' the right policy for Meghalaya, northeast India? BMC Complement Altern Med (2015) 0.97
Community concepts of poverty: an application to premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme. Global Health (2013) 0.96
The effectiveness of U.S. public health surveillance systems for situational awareness during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic: a retrospective analysis. PLoS One (2012) 0.93
Policymaking 'under the radar': a case study of pesticide regulation to prevent intentional poisoning in Sri Lanka. Health Policy Plan (2013) 0.92
Quality assurance of qualitative research: a review of the discourse. Health Res Policy Syst (2011) 0.92
Access to medicines in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): a scoping study. BMJ Open (2013) 0.89
Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania. Global Health (2012) 0.88
Fair publication of qualitative research in health systems: a call by health policy and systems researchers. Int J Equity Health (2016) 0.88
Efficiency of the Austrian disease management program for diabetes mellitus type 2: a historic cohort study based on health insurance provider's routine data. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.83
Setting healthcare priorities: a description and evaluation of the budgeting and planning process in county hospitals in Kenya. Health Policy Plan (2016) 0.82
The impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) service scale-up on mechanisms of accountability in Zambian primary health centres: a case-based health systems analysis. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.82
Advancing Global Health - The Need for (Better) Social Science Comment on "Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health". Int J Health Policy Manag (2016) 0.81
Integrating views on support for mid-level health worker performance: a concept mapping study with regional health system actors in rural Guatemala. Int J Equity Health (2015) 0.81
Comparative analysis of three prehospital emergency medical services organizations in India and Pakistan. Public Health (2016) 0.81
Introduction. Politics and practices of global health: critical ethnographies of health systems. Glob Public Health (2014) 0.80
Balancing authority, deference and trust across the public-private divide in health care: tuberculosis health visitors in western Maharashtra, India. Glob Public Health (2014) 0.80
Health policy and systems research and analysis in Nigeria: examining health policymakers' and researchers' capacity assets, needs and perspectives in south-east Nigeria. Health Res Policy Syst (2016) 0.80
Public policies and health systems in Sahelian Africa: theoretical context and empirical specificity. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.79
Exploring the drivers of health and healthcare access in Zambian prisons: a health systems approach. Health Policy Plan (2016) 0.78
Posting and transfer: key to fostering trust in government health services. Hum Resour Health (2015) 0.78
Framing and the health policy process: a scoping review. Health Policy Plan (2016) 0.78
Recentralization within decentralization: County hospital autonomy under devolution in Kenya. PLoS One (2017) 0.78
Emerging roles and competencies of district and sub-district pharmacists: a case study from Cape Town. Hum Resour Health (2015) 0.77
Strengthening post-graduate educational capacity for health policy and systems research and analysis: the strategy of the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa. Health Res Policy Syst (2016) 0.77
Understanding home delivery in a context of user fee reduction: a cross-sectional mixed methods study in rural Burkina Faso. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2015) 0.75
Improving financial access to health care in the Kisantu district in the Democratic Republic of Congo: acting upon complexity. Glob Health Action (2015) 0.75
Health policy and systems research training: global status and recommendations for action. Bull World Health Organ (2016) 0.75
Evaluation as evolution: a Darwinian proposal for health policy and systems research. Health Res Policy Syst (2015) 0.75
Social sciences: vital to improving our understanding of health equity, policy and systems. Int J Equity Health (2017) 0.75
Improving access to medicines for non-communicable diseases in rural India: a mixed methods study protocol using quasi-experimental design. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
Analysing key influences over actors' use of evidence in developing policies and strategies in Nigeria: a retrospective study of the Integrated Maternal Newborn and Child Health strategy. Health Res Policy Syst (2016) 0.75
The Astronomy of Africa's Health Systems Literature During the MDG Era: Where Are the Systems Clusters? Glob Health Sci Pract (2015) 0.75
The impact of delays on maternal and neonatal outcomes in Ugandan public health facilities: the role of absenteeism. Health Policy Plan (2016) 0.75
A mixed methods contribution to the study of health public policies: complementarities and difficulties. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.75
Diagnosis of a public policy: an introduction to user fee exemptions for healthcare in the Sahel. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.75
What Can We Learn About the Processes of Regulation of Tuberculosis Medicines From the Experiences of Health Policy and System Actors in India, Tanzania, and Zambia? Int J Health Policy Manag (2016) 0.75
E-consult implementation: lessons learned using consolidated framework for implementation research. Am J Manag Care (2015) 0.75
Conceptual and terminological confusion around personalised medicine: a coping strategy. BMC Med Ethics (2016) 0.75
Evolution of policies on human resources for health: opportunities and constraints in four post-conflict and post-crisis settings. Confl Health (2017) 0.75
How did rapid scale-up of HIV services impact on workplace and interpersonal trust in Zambian primary health centres: a case-based health systems analysis. BMJ Glob Health (2016) 0.75
Evaluating Global Health Partnerships: A Case Study of a Gavi HPV Vaccine Application Process in Uganda. Int J Health Policy Manag (2016) 0.75
Data for development in health: a case study and monitoring framework from Kazakhstan. BMJ Glob Health (2016) 0.75
Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data. Lancet (2006) 8.65
Assessing country-level efforts to link research to action. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 7.63
Combining qualitative and quantitative sampling, data collection, and analysis techniques in mixed-method studies. Res Nurs Health (2000) 3.54
Building the field of health policy and systems research: an agenda for action. PLoS Med (2011) 3.54
10-year effect of Oportunidades, Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme, on child growth, cognition, language, and behaviour: a longitudinal follow-up study. Lancet (2009) 3.24
Building the field of health policy and systems research: framing the questions. PLoS Med (2011) 3.21
'We are bitter but we are satisfied': nurses as street-level bureaucrats in South Africa. Soc Sci Med (2004) 3.04
Understanding the impact of eliminating user fees: utilization and catastrophic health expenditures in Uganda. Soc Sci Med (2005) 3.03
A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 2.38
Health sector reforms and human resources for health in Uganda and Bangladesh: mechanisms of effect. Hum Resour Health (2007) 2.25
Cultural competence in interdisciplinary collaborations: a method for respecting diversity in research partnerships. Am J Community Psychol (2006) 1.85
"The problem of the worst-off is dealt with after all other issues": the equity and health policy implementation gap in Burkina Faso. Soc Sci Med (2008) 1.83
A realist evaluation of the management of a well-performing regional hospital in Ghana. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.72
Health policy and systems research: defining the terrain; identifying the methods. Health Policy Plan (2011) 1.72
Going down to the local: incorporating social organisation and political culture into assessments of decentralised health care. Soc Sci Med (2000) 1.62
Family planning policies and programmes in eight low-income countries: a comparative policy analysis. Soc Sci Med (1998) 1.26
Are health services protecting the livelihoods the urban poor in Sri Lanka? Findings from two low-income areas of Colombo. Soc Sci Med (2006) 1.23
Discursive gaps in the implementation of public health policy guidelines in India: the case of HIV testing. Soc Sci Med (2010) 1.18
Private obstetric practice in a public hospital: mythical trust in obstetric care. Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.04
Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Lancet (2004) 15.43
Health sector reform and public sector health worker motivation: a conceptual framework. Soc Sci Med (2002) 10.69
What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries? Bull World Health Organ (2002) 4.87
Effects of policy options for human resources for health: an analysis of systematic reviews. Lancet (2008) 4.55
Achieving universal coverage with health interventions. Lancet (2004) 4.29
Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet (2008) 4.13
Implementation research: what it is and how to do it. BMJ (2013) 3.74
Improving the health of the global poor. Science (2002) 3.69
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: 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
Got ACTs? Availability, price, market share and provider knowledge of anti-malarial medicines in public and private sector outlets in six malaria-endemic countries. Malar J (2011) 2.99
Scaling up in international health: what are the key issues? Health Policy Plan (2010) 2.96
The Global Fund: managing great expectations. Lancet (2004) 2.94
Costs and consequences of large-scale vector control for malaria. Malar J (2008) 2.93
Is malaria a disease of poverty? A review of the literature. Trop Med Int Health (2005) 2.88
Determinants and consequences of health worker motivation in hospitals in Jordan and Georgia. Soc Sci Med (2004) 2.78
Which delivery systems reach the poor? A review of equity of coverage of ever-treated nets, never-treated nets, and immunisation to reduce child mortality in Africa. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 2.39
Scaling-up and sustaining insecticide-treated net coverage. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 2.27
Inequalities in purchase of mosquito nets and willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets in Nigeria: challenges for malaria control interventions. Malar J (2004) 2.23
Do malaria control interventions reach the poor? A view through the equity lens. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 2.23
Employment preferences of public sector nurses in Malawi: results from a discrete choice experiment. Trop Med Int Health (2008) 2.20
Priorities for research into human resources for health in low- and middle-income countries. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 2.16
Costs and effects of the Tanzanian national voucher scheme for insecticide-treated nets. Malar J (2008) 2.07
The ACTwatch project: methods to describe anti-malarial markets in seven countries. Malar J (2011) 2.03
How to do (or not to do) ... Designing a discrete choice experiment for application in a low-income country. Health Policy Plan (2008) 2.01
Quality of anti-malarial drugs provided by public and private healthcare providers in south-east Nigeria. Malar J (2009) 1.94
Delivery systems for insecticide treated and untreated mosquito nets in Africa: categorization and outcomes achieved. Health Policy Plan (2007) 1.92
What do we mean by rigorous health-systems research? Lancet (2008) 1.89
Evaluating health systems strengthening interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: are we asking the right questions? Health Policy Plan (2012) 1.87
Costs of maternal health care services in three anglophone African countries. Int J Health Plann Manage (2003) 1.77
Costing the distribution of insecticide-treated nets: a review of cost and cost-effectiveness studies to provide guidance on standardization of costing methodology. Malar J (2006) 1.73
Are malaria treatment expenditures catastrophic to different socio-economic and geographic groups and how do they cope with payment? A study in southeast Nigeria. Trop Med Int Health (2009) 1.72
Assessment of a national voucher scheme to deliver insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women. CMAJ (2010) 1.71
Which family members use the best nets? An analysis of the condition of mosquito nets and their distribution within households in Tanzania. Malar J (2010) 1.67
Overcoming access barriers for facility-based delivery in low-income settings: insights from Bangladesh and Uganda. J Health Popul Nutr (2006) 1.67
Health systems factors influencing maternal health services: a four-country comparison. Health Policy (2004) 1.63
Malaria eradication: the economic, financial and institutional challenge. Malar J (2008) 1.62
An unhealthy public-private tension: pharmacy ownership, prescribing, and spending in the Philippines. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 1.59
Horizontal equity in utilisation of care and fairness of health financing: a comparison of micro-health insurance and user fees in Rwanda. Health Econ (2006) 1.57
Individual, facility and policy level influences on national coverage estimates for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Tanzania. Malar J (2008) 1.55
Health care-seeking behaviour and out-of-pocket payments in Tbilisi, Georgia. Health Policy Plan (2005) 1.51
How the Avahan HIV prevention program transitioned from the Gates Foundation to the government of India. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.50
People-centred science: strengthening the practice of health policy and systems research. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 1.49
Methods for implementing a medicine outlet survey: lessons from the anti-malarial market. Malar J (2013) 1.37
Assessing access barriers to maternal health care: measuring bypassing to identify health centre needs in rural Uganda. Health Policy Plan (2009) 1.33
Private practitioners' communications with patients around HIV testing in Pune, India. Health Policy Plan (2006) 1.31
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: realist evaluation of the Leadership Development Programme for district manager decision-making in Ghana. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 1.30
Establishing health systems financing research priorities in developing countries using a participatory methodology. Soc Sci Med (2010) 1.29
Donor funding for newborn survival: an analysis of donor-reported data, 2002-2010. PLoS Med (2012) 1.27
Some indicators of socio-economic status may not be reliable and use of indices with these data could worsen equity. Health Econ (2006) 1.27
Do poor people use poor quality providers? Evidence from the treatment of presumptive malaria in Nigeria. Trop Med Int Health (2011) 1.26
Examining catastrophic health expenditures at variable thresholds using household consumption expenditure diaries. Trop Med Int Health (2011) 1.25
Closing the gaps: from science to action in maternal, newborn, and child health in Africa. PLoS Med (2010) 1.24
Methods for studying private sector supply of public health products in developing countries: a conceptual framework and review. Soc Sci Med (2003) 1.22
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
From intervention to impact: modelling the potential mortality impact achievable by different long-lasting, insecticide-treated net delivery strategies. Malar J (2012) 1.19
Examining inequities in incidence of catastrophic health expenditures on different healthcare services and health facilities in Nigeria. PLoS One (2012) 1.18
A cost function for HIV prevention services: is there a 'u' - shape? Cost Eff Resour Alloc (2007) 1.18
Low coverage of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Nigeria: demand-side influences. Malar J (2012) 1.16
Who buys insecticide-treated nets? Implications for increasing coverage in Nigeria. Health Policy Plan (2003) 1.14
Methods for evaluating delivery systems for scaling-up malaria control intervention. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.13
Financial incentives for maternal health: impact of a national programme in Nepal. J Health Econ (2011) 1.12
The use of discrete choice experiments to inform health workforce policy: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res (2014) 1.11
The economics of social marketing: the case of mosquito nets in Tanzania. Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.11
Evaluating delivery systems: complex evaluations and plausibility inference. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2010) 1.10
Towards improving hospital performance in Uganda and Zambia: reflections and opportunities for autonomy. Health Policy (2002) 1.09
Local perceptions of intermittent screening and treatment for malaria in school children on the south coast of Kenya. Malar J (2012) 1.09
Introducing vouchers for malaria prevention in Ghana and Tanzania: context and adoption of innovation in health systems. Health Policy Plan (2012) 1.06
International flow of Zambian nurses. Hum Resour Health (2009) 1.04
Integrated surveys of neglected tropical diseases in southern Sudan: how much do they cost and can they be refined? PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 1.03
Sub-optimal delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Nigeria: influence of provider factors. Malar J (2012) 1.02
Individual and community determinants of neonatal mortality in Ghana: a multilevel analysis. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.02
Timing of delivery of malaria preventive interventions in pregnancy: results from the Tanzania national voucher programme. J Epidemiol Community Health (2009) 1.01
Geographic inequities in provision and utilization of malaria treatment services in southeast Nigeria: diagnosis, providers and drugs. Health Policy (2010) 1.01
Interventions to manage dual practice among health workers. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2011) 1.00
Availability and price of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in the public and private health sectors in 2011: results from 10 nationally representative cross-sectional retail surveys. Trop Med Int Health (2015) 1.00
The impacts of decentralization on health care seeking behaviors in Uganda. Int J Health Plann Manage (2006) 0.99
The Use of Research Evidence in Two International Organizations' Recommendations about Health Systems. Healthc Policy (2009) 0.99
Two-tier charging strategies in public hospitals: implications for intra-hospital resource allocation and equity of access to hospital services. J Health Econ (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
Better guidance is welcome, but without blinders. PLoS Med (2012) 0.96
Do divergences between stated and actual willingness to pay signify the existence of bias in contingent valuation surveys? Soc Sci Med (2005) 0.96
Constraints to universal coverage: inequities in health service use and expenditures for different health conditions and providers. Int J Equity Health (2011) 0.96
Government policies for traditional, complementary and alternative medical services in India: from assimilation to integration? Natl Med J India (2012) 0.95