Publications

Aryal A, Clarke-Deelder E, Phommalangsy S, Kounnavong S, Fink G. Health system utilization and perceived quality among adults in Lao PDR: evidence from a nationally representative phone survey. BMC Public Health. 2024;24:565. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-18039-2

Ehteshami F, Cassidy R, Tediosi F, Fink G, Cobos Muñoz D. Combining theory-driven realist approach and systems thinking to unpack complexity of type 2 diabetes and hypertension management in low and middle-income countries: protocol for a realist review. Systems. 2024;12(1):16. DOI: 10.3390/systems12010016

Ekou F.K, Eze I.C, Aka J, Kwiatkowski M, Merten S, Acka F.K, Fink G, Utzinger J, Probst-Hensch N. Randomised controlled trial on the effect of social support on disease control, mental health and health-related quality of life in people with diabetes from Côte d'Ivoire: the SoDDiCo study protocol. BMJ Open. 2024;14(1):e069934. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069934

Fink G, Chembe M, Henderson S, Rockers P.C, Parkerson D. Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia. Popul Health Metr. 2024;22:2. DOI: 10.1186/s12963-024-00322-4

Jebiwott S, Gutapaka N, Sumari D, Loss G, Athuman T, Nyandele J.P, Cummins H, Chemba M, Benjamin-Chung J, Gangar P, Wu X, Smith J, Chen I, Dorsey G, Fink G, Olotu A, Hsiang M. Child health and infection with low density (CHILD) malaria: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to assess the long-term health and socioeconomic impacts of testing and treating low-density malaria infection among children in Tanzania. BMJ Open. 2024;14(3):e082227. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082227

Kruk M.E, Kapoor N.R, Lewis T.P, Arsenault C, Boutsikari E.C, Breda J, Carai S, Croke K, Dayalu R, Fink G, Garcia P.J, Kassa M, Mohan S, Moshabela M, Nzinga J, Oh J, Okiro E.A, Prabhakaran D, SteelFisher G.K, Tarricone R, Garcia-Elorrio E. Population confidence in the health system in 15 countries: results from the first round of the People's Voice Survey. Lancet Glob Health. 2024;12(1):e100-e111. Series: The People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance 1. DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(23)00499-0

Lewis T.P, Kassa M, Kapoor N.R, Arsenault C, Bazua-Lobato R, Dayalu R, Fink G, Getachew T, Jarhyan P, Lee H.Y, Mazzoni A, Medina-Ranilla J, Naidoo I, Tadele A, Kruk M.E. User-reported quality of care: findings from the first round of the People's Voice Survey in 14 countries. Lancet Glob Health. 2024;12:e112-e122. Series: The People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance 2. DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(23)00495-3

Loss G, Naicker S, Richter L, Fink G. Early life determinants of social disparities among young adults: a longitudinal study in vulnerable communities in South Africa. World Dev. 2024;175:106465. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106465

Odipo E, Jarhyan P, Nzinga J, Prabhakaran D, Aryal A, Clarke-Deelder E, Mohan S, Mosa M, Eshetu M.K, Lewis T.P, Kapoor N.R, Kruk M.E, Fink G, Okiro E.A. The path to universal health coverage in five African and Asian countries: examining the association between insurance status and health-care use. Lancet Glob Health. 2024;12:e123-e133. Series: The People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance 3. DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(23)00510-7

Osei Afriyie D, Loo P.S, Kuwawenaruwa A, Kassimu T, Fink G, Tediosi F, Mtenga S. Understanding the role of the Tanzania national health insurance fund in improving service coverage and quality of care. Soc Sci Med. 2024;347:116714. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116714

Aebi N.J, Baenteli I, Fink G, Meinlschmidt G, Schaefert R, Schwenkglenks M, Studer A, Trost S, Tschudin S, Wyss K, SomPsyNet Consortium. Facilitators and barriers of routine psychosocial distress assessment within a stepped and collaborative care model in a Swiss hospital setting. PLoS One. 2023;18(6):e0285395. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285395

Agyepong I, Spicer N, Ooms G, Jahn A, Bärnighausen T, Beiersmann C, Brown Amoakoh H, Fink G, Guo Y, Hennig L, Kifle Habtemariam M, Kouyaté B.A, Loewenson R, Micah A, Moon S, Moshabela M, Myhre S.L, Ottersen T, Patcharanarumol W, Sarker M, Sen G, Siozaki Y, Songane F, Sridhar D, Ssengooba F, Vega J, Ventura D, Voss M, Heymann D. Lancet commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion. Lancet. 2023;401(10392):1964-2012. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01930-4

Bloom D.E, Fink G. The economic case for devoting public resources to health. In: Farrar J,Hotez P.J,Junghanss T,Kang G,Lalloo D,White N.J,Garcia P.J, eds. Manson's Tropical Diseases, 49-56. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7020-7959-7.00007-5

Bucher A, Dimov A, Fink G, Chitnis N, Bonfoh B, Zinsstag J. Benefit-cost analysis of coordinated strategies for control of rabies in Africa. Nat Commun. 2023;14:5370. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41110-2

Cavallera V, Lancaster G, Gladstone M, Black M.M, McCray G, Nizar A, Ahmed S, Dutta A, Anago R.K.E, Brentani A, Jiang F, Schönbeck Y, McCoy D.C, Kariger P, Weber A.M, Raikes A, Waldman M, van Buuren S, Kaur R, Perez Maillard M, Nisar M.I, Khanam R, Sazawal S, Zongo A, Pacifico Mercadante M, Zhang Y, Roy A.D, Hepworth K, Fink G, Rubio-Codina M, Tofail F, Eekhout I, Seiden J, Norton R, Baqui A.H, Khalfan Ali J, Zhao J, Holzinger A, Detmar S, Kembou S.N, Begum F, Mohammed Ali S, Jehan F, Dua T, Janus M. Protocol for validation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for children under 3 years of age in seven countries. BMJ Open. 2023;13:e062562. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062562

Fakih B.S, Holzschuh A, Ross A, Stuck L, Abdul R, Al-mafazy A.H, Irema I, Mbena A, Thawer S.G, Shija S.J, Aliy S.M, Ali A, Fink G, Yukich J, Hetzel M.W. Risk of imported malaria infections in Zanzibar: a cross-sectional study. Infect Dis Poverty. 2023;12:80. DOI: 10.1186/s40249-023-01129-5

Falgas-Bague I, Thembo T, Kaiser J.L, Hamer D.H, Scott N.A, Ngoma T, Paul R, Juntunen A, Rockers P.C, Fink G. Trends in maternal mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic-evidence from Zambia. PLoS One. 2023;18(2):e0281091. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281091

Fink G, Förtsch K, Felder S. Subjective burden of government-imposed Covid-19 restrictions in Switzerland: evidence from the 2022 LINK Covid-19 survey. PLoS One. 2023;18(7):e0283524. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283524

Hartinger Pena S.M, Mäusezahl D, Jäggi L, Aguilar L, Alvarado Llatance M, Castellanos A, Huaylinos Bustamante M.L, Hinckley K, Charles McCoy D, Zhang C, Fink G. Digital support systems to improve child health and development in Peru: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2023;12:e50371. DOI: 10.2196/50371

Jäggi L, Aguilar L, Alvarado Llatance M, Castellanos A, Fink G, Hinckley K, Huaylinos Bustamante M.L, McCoy D.C, Verastegui H, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger Pena S.M. Digital tools to improve parenting behaviour in low-income settings: a mixed-methods feasibility study. Arch Dis Child. 2023;108(6):433-439. DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324964

Juntunen A, Kaiser JL, Ngoma T, Hamer DH, Fink G, Rockers PC, Biemba G, Scott NA. Lessons from a year of COVID-19 in Zambia: reported attendance and mask wearing at large gatherings in rural communities. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023;108(2):384-393. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0460

Kaiser J.L, Hamer D.H, Juntunen A, Ngoma T, Fink G, Schueler J, Rockers P.C, Biemba G, Scott N.A. COVID-19 knowledge and prevention behaviors in rural Zambia: a qualitative application of the information-motivation-behavioral skills model. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023;109(1):76-89. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0604

Kaiser J.L, Ngoma T, Rockers P.C, Fink G, Juntunen A, Hamer D.H, Chirwa B, Scott N.A. A qualitative assessment of community acceptability and use of a locally developed children's book to increase shared reading and parent-child interactions in rural Zambia. Ann Glob Health. 2023;89(1):28. DOI: 10.5334/aogh.3920

Koné S, Probst-Hensch N, Dao D, Utzinger J, Fink G. Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte d'Ivoire: a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Glob Health. 2023;8(4):e010934. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010934

Lewis T.P, Kapoor N.R, Aryal A, Bazua-Lobato R, Carai S, Clarke-Deelder E, Croke K, Dayalu R, Espinoza-Pajuelo L, Fink G, Garcia P.J, Garcia-Elorrio E, Getachew T, Jarhyan P, Kassa M, Kim S.A, Mazzoni A, Medina-Ranilla J, Mohan S, Molla G, Moshabela M, Naidoo I, Nzinga J, Oh J, Okiro E.A, Prabhakaran D, Roberti J, SteelFisher G, Taddele T, Tadele A, Wang X, Xu R, Leslie H.H, Kruk M.E. Measuring people's views on health system performance: design and development of the people's voice survey. PLoS Med. 2023;20(10):e1004294. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004294

McCoy D.C, Dormal M, Cuartas J, Carreira Dos Santos A, Fink G, Brentani A. The acute effects of community violence on young children's regulatory, behavioral, and developmental outcomes in a low-income urban sample in Brazil. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2023(in press). DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13799

Meinlschmidt G, Frick A, Baenteli I, Karpf C, Studer A, Bachmann M, Dörner A, Tschudin S, Trost S, Wyss K, Fink G, Schwenkglenks M, Caviezel S, Rocco T, Schaefert R, SomPsyNet consortium. Prevention of psychosocial distress consequences in somatic hospital inpatients via a stepped and collaborative care model: protocol of SomPsyNet, a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial. BMJ Open. 2023;13(11):e076814. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076814

Mitterer S, Zimmermann K, Fink G, Simon M, Gerber A.K, Bergsträsser E. The funding of specialised paediatric palliative care in Switzerland: a conceptualisation and modified Delphi study on obstacles and priorities. Swiss Med Wkly. 2023;153(12):3498. DOI: 10.57187/s.3498

Mrema S, Okumu F, Schellenberg J, Fink G. Associations between the use of insecticide-treated nets in early childhood and educational outcomes, marriage and child-bearing in early adulthood: evidence from a 22-year prospective cohort study in Tanzania. Malar J. 2023;22:134. DOI: 10.1186/s12936-023-04560-z

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development. Nature. 2023;615(7954):874-883. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8

Nuvey F.S, Fink G, Hattendorf J, Mensah G.I, Addo K.K, Bonfoh B, Zinsstag J. Access to vaccination services for priority ruminant livestock diseases in Ghana: barriers and determinants of service utilization by farmers. Prev Vet Med. 2023;215:105919. DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.105919

Nuvey F.S, Hanley N, Simpson K, Haydon D.T, Hattendorf J, Mensah G.I, Addo K.K, Bonfoh B, Zinsstag J, Fink G. Farmers' valuation and willingness to pay for vaccines to protect livestock resources against priority infectious diseases in Ghana. Prev Vet Med. 2023;219:106028. DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.106028

Nuvey F.S, Haydon D.T, Hattendorf J, Addo K.K, Mensah G.I, Fink G, Zinsstag J, Bonfoh B. Relationship between animal health and livestock farmers' wellbeing in Ghana: beyond zoonoses. BMC Public Health. 2023;23:1353. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16287-2

Nuvey F.S, Mensah G.I, Zinsstag J, Hattendorf J, Fink G, Bonfoh B, Addo K.K. Management of diseases in a ruminant livestock production system: a participatory appraisal of the performance of veterinary services delivery, and utilization in Ghana. BMC Vet Res. 2023;19:237. DOI: 10.1186/s12917-023-03793-z

Onyango S, Kitsao-Wekulo P, Langat N, Okelo K, Murdock D.E, Utzinger J, Fink G. Maternal stimulation and early child development in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Kenya and Zambia. BMC Public Health. 2023;23:2418. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-17235-w

Osei Afriyie D, Kwesiga B, Achungura G, Tediosi F, Fink G. Effects of health insurance on quality of care in low-income countries: a systematic review. Public Health Rev. 2023;44:1605749. DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2023.1605749

Osei Afriyie D, Masiye F, Tediosi F, Fink G. Confidence in the health system and health insurance enrollment among the informal sector population in Lusaka, Zambia. Soc Sci Med. 2023;321:115750. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115750

Osei Afriyie D, Masiye F, Tediosi F, Fink G. Purchasing for high-quality care using national health insurance: evidence from Zambia. Health Policy Plan. 2023;38(6):681-688. DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czad022

Osetinsky B, Fink G, Kuwawenaruwa A, Tediosi F. Investigating sustainability challenges for the National Health Insurance Fund in Tanzania: a modelling approach. BMJ Open. 2023;13(8):e070451. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070451

Rockers P.C, Leppänen J.M, Tarullo A, Coetzee L, Fink G, Hamer D.H, Yousafzai A.K, Evans D. Evaluation of a community health worker home visit intervention to improve child development in South Africa: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2023;20(4):e1004222. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004222