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h-index: 35
Works: 118
Citations: 4,330

Most-cited papers

To Retain or Remove User Fees?
C. James, K. Hanson, B. McPake, D. Balabanova +11 more
2006Applied Health Economics and Health Policy308 citations
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Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform?
B. Meessen, A. Soucat, Claude Sekabaraga
2011Bulletin of the World Health Organization245 citations Open access
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Removing user fees in the health sector: a review of policy processes in six sub-Saharan African countries.
B. Meessen, David Hercot, Mathieu Noirhomme, V. Ridde +3 more
2011Health Policy and Planning190 citations Open access
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The poorest of the poor: a poverty appraisal of households affected by visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India
M. Boelaert, F. Meheus, A. Sánchez, S. P. Singh +4 more
2009Tropical medicine & international health187 citations Open access
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Performance-Based Financing Toolkit
G. Fritsche, R. Soeters, B. Meessen
2014169 citations Open access
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Reviewing institutions of rural health centres: the Performance Initiative in Butare, Rwanda
B. Meessen, L. Musango, Jean-Pierre I. Kashala, Jackie Lemlin
2006Tropical medicine & international health132 citations Open access
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Output-based payment to boost staff productivity in public health centres: contracting in Kabutare district, Rwanda.
B. Meessen, Jean-Pierre Kashala, L. Musango
2007Bulletin of the World Health Organization128 citations Open access
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Poverty and user fees for public health care in low-income countries: lessons from Uganda and Cambodia.
B. Meessen, W. van Damme, C. Tashobya, Abdelmajid Tibouti
2006The Lancet118 citations
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Performance-based financing as a health system reform: mapping the key dimensions for monitoring and evaluation
S. Witter, J. Toonen, B. Meessen, J. Kagubare +2 more
2013BMC Health Services Research115 citations Open access
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Improving access to hospital care for the poor: comparative analysis of four health equity funds in Cambodia.
Mathieu Noirhomme, B. Meessen, F. Griffiths, P. Ir +4 more
2007Health Policy and Planning115 citations Open access
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Determinants of stunting and severe stunting among Burundian children aged 6-23 months: evidence from a national cross-sectional household survey, 2014
S. Nkurunziza, B. Meessen, J. Van Geertruyden, C. Korachais
2017BMC Pediatrics107 citations Open access
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A literature review of the disruptive effects of user fee exemption policies on health systems
V. Ridde, E. Robert, B. Meessen
2012BMC Public Health101 citations Open access
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Studying the link between institutions and health system performance: a framework and an illustration with the analysis of two performance-based financing schemes in Burundi.
M. Bertone, B. Meessen
2013Health Policy and Planning88 citations Open access
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Community participation and voice mechanisms under performance‐based financing schemes in Burundi
Jean-Benoît Falisse, B. Meessen, Juvénal Ndayishimiye, M. Bossuyt
2012Tropical medicine & international health72 citations Open access
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Composition of pluralistic health systems: how much can we learn from household surveys? An exploration in Cambodia.
B. Meessen, M. Bigdeli, K. Chheng, Kristof Decoster +3 more
2011Health Policy and Planning70 citations Open access
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Communities of practice: the missing link for knowledge management on implementation issues in low‐income countries?
B. Meessen, S. Kouanda, L. Musango, F. Richard +2 more
2011Tropical medicine & international health68 citations
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Removing user fees for health services in low-income countries: a multi-country review framework for assessing the process of policy change.
David Hercot, B. Meessen, V. Ridde, L. Gilson
2011Health Policy and Planning62 citations Open access
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Fee Exemption for Maternal Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of 11 Countries and Lessons for the Region
F. Richard, M. Antony, S. Witter, A. Kelley +3 more
201358 citations
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Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research
M. Bertone, B. Meessen, G. Clarysse, David Hercot +7 more
2013Health Research Policy and Systems57 citations Open access
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Performance-based financing: the same is different
Dimitri Renmans, N. Holvoet, B. Criel, B. Meessen
2017Health Policy and Planning54 citations
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Translating knowledge into policy and action to promote health equity: The Health Equity Fund policy process in Cambodia 2000-2008.
P. Ir, M. Bigdeli, B. Meessen, W. van Damme
2010Health Policy50 citations
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The Role of Digital Strategies in Financing Health Care for Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
B. Meessen
2018Global Health: Science and Practice Journal45 citations Open access
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From Scheme to System (Part 2): Findings from Ten Countries on the Policy Evolution of Results-Based Financing in Health Systems
Z. Shroff, M. Bigdeli, B. Meessen
2017Health systems and reform45 citations Open access
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Boosting facility deliveries with results-based financing: a mixed-methods evaluation of the government midwifery incentive scheme in Cambodia
P. Ir, C. Korachais, K. Chheng, Dirk Horemans +2 more
2015BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth45 citations Open access
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Can performance-based financing help reaching the poor with maternal and child health services? The experience of rural Rwanda.
Laurence Lannes, B. Meessen, A. Soucat, P. Basinga
2016International Journal of Health Planning and Management44 citations
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Implementation barriers for mHealth for non-communicable diseases management in low and middle income countries: a scoping review and field-based views from implementers
J. V. van Olmen, Erica Erwin, A. C. García-Ulloa, B. Meessen +11 more
2020Wellcome Open Research42 citations Open access
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User fee removal in low-income countries: sharing knowledge to support managed implementation.
B. Meessen, L. Gilson, Abdelmajid Tibouti
2011Health Policy and Planning40 citations
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Scoping literature review on the Learning Organisation concept as applied to the health system
E. Akhnif, J. Macq, M. O. Idrissi Fakhreddine, B. Meessen
2017Health Research Policy and Systems37 citations Open access
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Removing user fees in the health sector in low-income countries: a multi-country review
B. Meessen, David Hercot, Mathieu Noirhomme, V. Ridde +4 more
200937 citations
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Self-Reported Serious Illnesses in Rural Cambodia: A Cross-Sectional Survey
P. Ir, C. Men, H. Lucas, B. Meessen +3 more
2010PLoS ONE35 citations Open access
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No universal health coverage without strong local health systems.
B. Meessen, B. Malanda
2014Bulletin of the World Health Organization33 citations Open access
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How User Fees Influence Contraception in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review
C. Korachais, Elodie Macouillard, B. Meessen
2016Studies in family planning32 citations Open access
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Why Performance-Based Financing in Chad Failed to Emerge on the National Policy Agenda
J. Kiendrébéogo, Z. Shroff, A. Berthé, Lamoudi Yonli +2 more
2017Health systems and reform30 citations Open access
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The Quality of Medicines Used in Children and Supplied by Private Pharmaceutical Wholesalers in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A Prospective Survey
B. Schiavetti, E. Wynendaele, B. de Spiegeleer, Geremie J. Mbinze +8 more
2018American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene29 citations Open access
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Are our ‘UHC systems’ learning systems? Piloting an assessment tool and process in six African countries
E. Akhnif, J. Kiendrébéogo, A. I. Azouzzi, Z. Adam +5 more
2018Health Research Policy and Systems29 citations Open access
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Quality assurance of medicines supplied to low-income and middle-income countries: poor products in shiny boxes?
A. N. Giralt, B. Schiavetti, B. Meessen, C. Pouget +5 more
2017BMJ Global Health29 citations Open access
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From Scheme to System (Part 1): Notes on Conceptual and Methodological Innovations in the Multicountry Research Program on Scaling Up Results-Based Financing in Health Systems
B. Meessen, Z. Shroff, P. Ir, M. Bigdeli
2017Health systems and reform28 citations Open access
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Taking Results-Based Financing from Scheme to System
Z. Shroff, N. Tran, B. Meessen, M. Bigdeli +1 more
2017Health systems and reform27 citations Open access
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The place of learning in a universal health coverage health policy process: the case of the RAMED policy in Morocco
E. Akhnif, J. Macq, B. Meessen
2019Health Research Policy and Systems25 citations Open access
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Economic Transition, Institutional Changes and the Health System: Some Lessons from Rural China
B. Meessen, G. Bloom
200725 citations
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Evaluation of the maternal deaths surveillance and response system at the health district level in Guinea in 2017 through digital communication tools
T. M. Millimouno, S. Sidibé, A. Delamou, K. Bello +4 more
2019Reproductive Health24 citations Open access
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Ownership of health financing policies in low-income countries: a journey with more than one pathway
J. Kiendrébéogo, B. Meessen
2019BMJ Global Health22 citations Open access
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How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis
T. M. Millimouno, B. Meessen, W. van de Put, Marlon Garcia +6 more
2023BMJ Global Health20 citations Open access
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Pharmaceutical quality assurance of local private distributors: a secondary analysis in 13 low-income and middle-income countries
K. van Assche, Ariadna Nebot Giralt, J. Caudron, B. Schiavetti +4 more
2018BMJ Global Health20 citations Open access
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Learning for Universal Health Coverage
B. Meessen, E. Akhnif, J. Kiendrébéogo, Abdelali Belghiti Alaoui +12 more
2019BMJ Global Health19 citations Open access
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A qualitative study on access to health care services for HIV/AIDS and diabetic patients in Cambodia
C. Men, B. Meessen, M. van Pelt, W. van Damme +1 more
201219 citations Open access
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Health and social protection: experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao
B. Meessen, X. Pei, B. Criel, G. Bloom
200819 citations
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Toward a typology of health-related informal credit: an exploration of borrowing practices for paying for health care by the poor in Cambodia
P. Ir, Bart Jacobs, B. Meessen, W. van Damme
2012BMC Health Services Research17 citations Open access
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Measuring and understanding the effects of a performance based financing scheme applied to nutrition services in Burundi—a mixed method impact evaluation design
Manassé Nimpagaritse, C. Korachais, D. Roberfroid, P. Kolsteren +2 more
2016International Journal for Equity in Health16 citations Open access
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Removing User Fees in the Health Sector in Low-Income Countries: A Policy Guidance Note for Programme Managers
B. Meessen
200916 citations
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