Afriyie D.O, Titi-Ofei R, Masiye F, Chansa C, Fink G. The political economy of national health insurance schemes: evidence from Zambia. Health Policy Plan. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae094

2024
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Arsenault C, Mfeka-Nkabinde N.G, Chaudhry M, Jarhyan P, Taddele T, Mugenya I, Sabwa S, Wright K, Amboko B, Baensch L, Molla Wondim G, Mthethwa L, Clarke-Deelder E, Yang W.C, Kosgei R.J, Purohit P, Mzolo N.C, Derseh Mebratie A, Shaw S, Nega A, Tlou B, Fink G, Moshabela M, Prabhakaran D, Mohan S, Haile Mariam D, Nzinga J, Getachew T, Kruk M.E. Antenatal care quality and detection of risk among pregnant women: an observational study in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and South Africa. PLoS Med. 2024;21(8):e1004446. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004446

2024
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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

2024
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Aryal A, Clarke-Deelder E, Phommalangsy S, Kounnavong S, Fink G. Health system inequities in Lao People's Democratic Republic: evidence from a nationally representative phone survey. Trop Med Int Health. 2024;29(6):518-525. DOI: 10.1111/tmi.13997

2024
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Drouard S.H.P, Brenner S, Antwisi D, Toure N.K, Madhavan S, Fink G, Shapira G. Effects of performance-based financing on availability, quality, and use of family planning services in the Democratic Republic of Congo: an impact evaluation. Stud Fam Plann. 2024;55(2):127-149. DOI: 10.1111/sifp.12264

2024
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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

2024
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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

2024
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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

2024
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Fink G, Locks L.M, Lauer J.M, Chembe M, Henderson S, Sikazwe D, Billima-Mulenga T, Parkerson D, Rockers P.C. The impact of home-installed growth charts and small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) on child growth in Zambia: a four-arm parallel open-label cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Glob Health. 2024;9(8):e015438. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015438

2024
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Fink G, Melero-Dominguez M, Chembe M, de Vernisy-Romero D, Tembo T, Billima T, Paul R, Alegria M, Parkerson D, Rockers P.C, Banda Z, Lungu G, Sikazwe D, Falgas-Bague I. Feasibility and acceptability of the Problem Management for Moms programme for improving maternal mental health in Zambia: an open-label trial. Lancet Psychiatry. 2024;12:965-974. DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00256-6

2024
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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

2024
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Kong Y, Chen S, Ma N, Chen Z, Karoli P, Niyi J.L, Fan P, Fink G, Kwete X.J, Wehrmeister F.C, Cheng F, Wang D, Zemene M.A, Gatimu S.M, Khan N, Rahman A, Fekadu L, Shibre G, Rahmartani L.D, Aheto J.M.K, Geldsetzer P, Li Z. Association between concurrence of multiple risk factors and under-5 mortality: a pooled analysis of data from demographic and health survey in 61 low-and-middle-income countries. EClinicalMedicine. 2024;71:102583. DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102583

2024
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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

2024
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Kruk M.E, Sabwa S, Lewis T.P, Aniebo I, Arsenault C, Carai S, Garcia P.J, Garcia-Elorrio E, Fink G, Kassa M, Mohan S, Moshabela M, Oh J, Pate M.A, Nzinga J. Population assessment of health system performance in 16 countries. Bull World Health Organ. 2024;102(7):486-497b. DOI: 10.2471/blt.23.291184

2024
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Kuhfeldt K.J, Kaiser J.L, Morgan A.J, Ngoma T, Hamer D.H, Fink G, Rockers P.C, Chirwa B, Scott N.A. Motivation, cues to action, and barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a qualitative application of the health belief model among women in Rural Zambia. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024;111(5):1118-1126. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0005

2024
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Lauer J.M, Pyykkö J, Chembe M, Bilima-Mulenga T, Sikazwe D, Chibwe B, Henderson S, Parkerson D, Leppänen J.M, Fink G, Locks L.M, Rockers P.C. Markers of environmental enteric dysfunction are associated with poor growth and developmental outcomes among young children in Lusaka, Zambia. J Pediatr. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114408

2024
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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

2024
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Locks L.M, Chembe M, Bilima-Mulenga T, Lauer J.M, Sizakawe D, Henderson S, Rockers P.C, Parkerson D, Fink G. Predictors of stunting and pathway analysis for linear growth among children 2-3 years of age after a trial of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements and home-installed growth charts in three districts in Zambia. J Nutr. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.11.003

2024
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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

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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. 2024;65(5):620-630. DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13799

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Mitterer S, Zimmermann K, Fink G, Simon M, Gerber A.K, Bergsträsser E. Hospitalization- and death-related financial and employment effects in parents of children with life-limiting conditions: a fixed-effects analysis. Eur J Pediatr. 2024;183(10):4215-4227. DOI: 10.1007/s00431-024-05680-7

2024
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Moolla A, Coetzee L, Mongwenyana C, Robertson A, Marincowitz G, Zuckerman M, Fink G, Hamer D.H, Yousafzai A, Rockers P.C, Evans D. Perceptions of roles of community healthcare workers in early childhood in Limpopo, South Africa. Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2024;16(1):a4412. DOI: 10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.4412

2024
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Nwankwo O.N.O, Auer C, Oyo-Ita A, Eyers J, Wyss K, Fink G, Bosch-Capblanch X. Human resources for health: a framework synthesis to put health workers at the centre of healthcare. BMJ Glob Health. 2024;9(9):e014556. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014556

2024
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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

2024
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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

2024
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Sanchez-Samaniego G, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger-Peña S.M, Hattendorf J, Verastegui H, Fink G, Probst-Hensch N. Pre-pregnancy body mass index and caesarean section in Andean women in Peru: a prospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024;24:304. DOI: 10.1186/s12884-024-06466-3

2024
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Sonephet S, Kounnavong S, Zinsstag L, Vonaesch P, Sayasone S, Siengsounthone L, Odermatt P, Fink G, Wallenborn J.T. Social Transfers for Exclusive Breastfeeding (STEB) Intervention in Lao People's Democratic Republic: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024;13:e54768. DOI: 10.2196/54768

2024
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Tani K, Osetinsky B, Mtenga S, Fink G, Tediosi F. Patient's willingness to pay for improved community health insurance in Tanzania. Health Policy Open. 2024;7:100130. DOI: 10.1016/j.hpopen.2024.100130

2024
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Tarullo A.R, Evans D, Coetzee L, Lopera-Perez D.C, Brady S.P, Gabard-Durnam L.J, Fink G, Hamer D.H, Yousafzai A.K, Rockers P.C. Neonatal physical growth predicts electroencephalography power in rural South African children. Brain Sci. 2024;14(6):552. DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14060552

2024
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Wallenborn J.T, Sinantha-Hu M, Ouipoulikoune V, Kounnavong S, Siengsounthone L, Probst-Hensch N, Odermatt P, Sayasone S, Fink G. Vientiane multigenerational birth cohort project in Lao People's Democratic Republic: protocol for establishing a longitudinal multigenerational birth cohort to promote population health. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024;13:e59545. DOI: 10.2196/59545

2024
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Werdin S, Fink G, Rajkumar S, Durrer M, Gurtner C, Harbauer G, Warnke I, Wyss K. Mental health of individuals at increased suicide risk after hospital discharge and initial findings on the usefulness of a suicide prevention project in Central Switzerland. Front Psychiatry. 2024;15:1432336. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1432336

2024
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Zay Ya K, Lambiris M.J, Levine G.A, Tediosi F, Fink G. Coverage of policies to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human medicine in low and middle income countries: results from the Global Survey of Experts on Antimicrobial Resistance. BMC Public Health. 2024;24:2297. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-19542-2

2024
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Zhang H, Fink G, Cohen J. Malaria rapid tests, febrile illness management, and child mortality across sub-Saharan African countries. JAMA. 2024;332(15):1270-1281. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.12589

2024
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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

2023
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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

2023
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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

2023
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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

2023
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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

2023
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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

2023
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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

2023
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