Helen Elsey

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Helen Elsey is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen Elsey has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in General Health Professions, 25 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 19 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Helen Elsey's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (23 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (19 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (18 papers). Helen Elsey is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (23 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (19 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (18 papers). Helen Elsey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Kenya and Bangladesh. Helen Elsey's co-authors include Sally Theobald, Rumana Huque, Jenni Murray, Judy Wright, Sushil Baral, Kamran Siddiqi, Joanna Raven, Nyantara Wickramasekera, Sandy Tubeuf and Maximilian Nawrath and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Helen Elsey

106 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Implementation research: new imperatives and opportunities in global health

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Helen Elsey United Kingdom	22	526	271	265	264	248	113	1.9k
Rapeepong Suphanchaimat Thailand	22	488 0.9×	341 1.3×	160 0.6×	471 1.8×	294 1.2×	129	1.7k
Kim Bảo Giang Vietnam	27	679 1.3×	242 0.9×	101 0.4×	444 1.7×	218 0.9×	106	2.2k
Tilahun Haregu Australia	20	408 0.8×	250 0.9×	118 0.4×	164 0.6×	180 0.7×	100	2.1k
Alison Levin‐Rector United States	14	597 1.1×	647 2.4×	149 0.6×	149 0.6×	167 0.7×	24	1.8k
Abu S. Abdullah United States	30	500 1.0×	171 0.6×	323 1.2×	177 0.7×	215 0.9×	121	2.6k
Fouad M. Fouad Lebanon	26	711 1.4×	244 0.9×	157 0.6×	639 2.4×	307 1.2×	79	1.9k
Chengchao Zhou China	29	755 1.4×	281 1.0×	232 0.9×	455 1.7×	426 1.7×	161	2.6k
Zhanchun Feng China	27	619 1.2×	417 1.5×	174 0.7×	246 0.9×	217 0.9×	95	1.9k
Li Ling China	26	915 1.7×	285 1.1×	167 0.6×	371 1.4×	440 1.8×	112	2.7k
Jessica M. Perkins United States	27	739 1.4×	474 1.7×	166 0.6×	368 1.4×	408 1.6×	95	2.7k

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Chumo, Ivy, et al.. (2024). Beyond a facility: A cross-sectional survey on WASH service levels and informal social accountability in childcare centres in Nairobi's informal settlements. Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 14(4). 313–324. 1 indexed citations

Agwu, Prince, Chinyere Mbachu, Obinna Onwujekwe, et al.. (2024). Informal–Formal Healthcare Services Delivery Nexus in Nigeria’s Urban Slums: A Reconnaissance Study. Journal of Social Service Research. 50(4). 711–724. 2 indexed citations

Siddiqi, Kamran, Helen Elsey, Mariam A Khokhar, et al.. (2023). Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 2030—A Program to Accelerate the Implementation of World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 25(6). 1074–1081. 13 indexed citations

Elsey, Helen, et al.. (2023). Developing an intervention to improve the quality of childcare centers in resource-poor urban settings: a mixed methods study in Nairobi, Kenya. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1195460–1195460. 3 indexed citations

Nampijja, Margaret, Mary Abboah‐Offei, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, et al.. (2023). The feasibility, acceptability, cost and benefits of a “communities of practice” model for improving the quality of childcare centres: a mixed-methods study in the informal settlements in Nairobi. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1194978–1194978. 1 indexed citations

Quayyum, Zahidul, Deepa Barua, Chukwuedozie K. Ajaero, et al.. (2022). Assessment of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models in health systems in least developed, low income and lower-middle-income countries and territories: A protocol for a Systematic Review. Research Square.

Li, Jinshuo, Steve Parrott, Ada Keding, et al.. (2022). Cost-utility of cytisine for smoking cessation over and above behavioural support in people with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis: an economic evaluation of a multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 12(8). e049644–e049644.

Dean, Laura, Josyula K. Lakshmi, Ivy Chumo, et al.. (2022). Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub. BMJ Global Health. 7(5). e008122–e008122. 3 indexed citations

Chumo, Ivy, Caroline Kabaria, Penelope A. Phillips‐Howard, et al.. (2022). Mapping social accountability actors and networks and their roles in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in childcare centres within Nairobi’s informal settlements: A governance diaries approach. PLoS ONE. 17(11). e0275491–e0275491. 9 indexed citations

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Chumo, Ivy, et al.. (2022). Informal social accountability mechanisms for water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in childcare centres in Nairobi City County's informal settlements. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 259–269. 9 indexed citations

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Siddiqi, Kamran, Ada Keding, Omara Dogar, et al.. (2021). Effect of quitting smoking on health outcomes during treatment for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of the TB & Tobacco Trial. Thorax. 77(1). 74–78. 14 indexed citations

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Abboah‐Offei, Mary, et al.. (2021). Adapting the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) to engage poor urban communities in Ghana: protocol for a participatory action research study. BMJ Open. 11(7). e049564–e049564. 5 indexed citations

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Bavel, Bianca van, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Rebecca King, et al.. (2020). Integrating climate in Ugandan health and subsistence food systems: where diverse knowledges meet. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 1864–1864. 5 indexed citations

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Murray, Jenni, Nyantara Wickramasekera, Marjolein Elings, et al.. (2019). The impact of care farms on quality of life, depression and anxiety among different population groups: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 15(4). e1061–e1061. 29 indexed citations

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Dogar, Omara, Deepa Barua, Melanie Boeckmann, et al.. (2018). The safety, effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of cytisine in achieving six‐month continuous smoking abstinence in tuberculosis patients—protocol for a double‐blind, placebo‐controlled randomized trial. Addiction. 113(9). 1716–1726. 17 indexed citations

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Elsey, Helen, et al.. (2016). Addressing Inequities in Urban Health: Do Decision-Makers Have the Data They Need? Report from the Urban Health Data Special Session at International Conference on Urban Health Dhaka 2015. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 7 indexed citations

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Baral, Sushil, Poojan Shrestha, Mahesh Puri, et al.. (2016). Yield of intensified tuberculosis case-finding activities using Xpert ^® MTB/RIF among risk groups in Nepal. Public Health Action. 6(2). 136–141. 12 indexed citations

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Huque, Rumana, Farid Uddin Ahmed, Rebecca King, et al.. (2016). Improving the quality of care of children in community clinics: an intervention and evaluation in Bangladesh. Public Health Action. 6(2). 77–82. 4 indexed citations

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Elsey, Helen, Rachel Bragg, Cathy Brennan, et al.. (2014). PROTOCOL: The impact of care farms on quality of life among different population groups: protocol for a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 10(1). 1–61. 2 indexed citations

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Mshelia, Comfort, Reinhard Huss, Tolib Mirzoev, et al.. (2013). Can action research strengthen district health management and improve health workforce performance? A research protocol. BMJ Open. 3(8). e003625–e003625. 17 indexed citations

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