Health Policy and Planning’s Top 10 articles in 2019

By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Health Policy and Planning publishes health policy and systems research focusing on low- and middle-income countries. The journal consists of four sections; Health Systems Research, Health Economics, Health Policy Processes and Implementation Research and Evaluation.

2019 was another busy year with the publication of a further 3 high-quality supplements on Health Systems Financing, Advancing Health Systems in the SDG era and Access to Medicines through Health Systems in LMICs. Our editors processed over 700 submissions (not including revised submissions) and published over 100 articles. Our impact factor also saw another increase to 2.717 providing us with a 5-year impact factor of 3.126 and placing us 14^th out of 81 within the Health Policy & Services category.

Below you can find our top 10 most cited, downloaded and most accessed content in the past year from content published between 2017-2019 and we look forward to another successful year in 2020!

Top 10 Cited Papers

1. Disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility delivery in Tanzania: a facility and community survey [Link]
2. Understanding and improving the one and three times GDP per capita cost-effectiveness thresholds [Link]
3. Strengthening mental health system governance in six low- and middle-income countries in Africa and South Asia: challenges, needs and potential strategies [Link]
4. Quality of integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa: user and provider perspectives [Link]
5. Indonesia’s road to universal health coverage: a political journey [Link]
6. Frameworks to assess health systems governance: a systematic review [Link]
7. Support and performance improvement for primary health care workers in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of intervention design and methods [Link]
8. Health provider responsiveness to social accountability initiatives in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review [Link]
9. Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and poverty related to out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Bangladesh-an estimation of financial risk protection of universal health coverage [Link]
10. The impact of an mHealth monitoring system on health care utilization by mothers and children: an evaluation using routine health information in Rwanda [Link]

Top 10 Downloaded Papers

1. The cost of not breastfeeding: global results from a new tool [Link] Access the infographic
2. Cuban Infant Mortality and Longevity: Health Care or Repression? [Link]
3. 10 Best resources for community engagement in implementation research [Link]
4. The impacts of decentralization on health system equity, efficiency and resilience: a realist synthesis of the evidence [Link]
5. Infectious disease risk and international tourism demand [Link]
6. Frameworks to assess health systems governance: a systematic review [Link]
7. 10 best resources on power in health policy and systems in low- and middle-income countries [Link]
8. Community health volunteers could help improve access to and use of essential health services by communities in LMICs: an umbrella review [Link]
9. Integrated care: learning between high-income, and low- and middle-income country health systems [Link]
10. Integrated mental health services in China: challenges and planning for the future [Link]

Top 10 Altmetric Scoring Papers

1. Cuban Infant Mortality and Longevity: Health Care or Repression? [Link]
2. The cost of not breastfeeding: global results from a new tool [Link]
3. Coca-Cola’s political and policy influence in Mexico: understanding the role of institutions, interests and divided society [Link]
4. 10 best resources on power in health policy and systems in low- and middle-income countries [Link]
5. Urgent care centres reduce emergency department and primary care same-day visits: a natural experiment [Link]
6. The impact of cash transfers on social determinants of health and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [Link]
7. The impacts of decentralization on health system equity, efficiency and resilience: a realist synthesis of the evidence [Link]
8. Priority setting for health in the context of devolution in Kenya: implications for health equity and community-based primary care [Link]
9. Psychosocial support for adolescent girls in post-conflict settings: beyond a health systems approach [Link]
10. Allocation of development assistance for health: is the predominance of national income justified? [Link]