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Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
9962
World Ranking
3835
National Ranking
28

Overview

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor is affiliated with the World Health Organization in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine and social sciences with a notable emphasis on health-related subfields. These subfields include health in general, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, general health professions, finance, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's work centers around several key topics, including global maternal and child health, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, healthcare systems and reforms, global public health policies and epidemiology, global health care issues, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and health disparities and outcomes.

Among their recent publications are:

  • A call for standardised age-disaggregated health data (2021), published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Summary Measures of Health Inequality: A Review of Existing Measures and Their Application (2022), published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Global state of education-related inequality in COVID-19 vaccine coverage, structural barriers, vaccine hesitancy, and vaccine refusal: findings from the Global COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey (2022), published in The Lancet Global Health
  • Large and persistent subnational inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health intervention coverage in sub-Saharan Africa (2020), published in BMJ Global Health
  • Measuring universal health coverage in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health: An update of the composite coverage index (2020), published in PLoS ONE

They frequently publish in several journals, notably Vaccines, International Journal for Equity in Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and The Lancet.

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including Katherine Kirkby, Anne Schlotheuber, Nicole Bergen, Aluísio J. D. Barros, and Nicole E. Johns. These collaborative relationships have contributed to the production of numerous scientific papers and research projects.

Best Publications

  • Global Epidemiology of Use of and Disparities in Caesarean Sections

    Ties Boerma;Carine Ronsmans;Dessalegn Y. Melesse;Aluisio J. D. Barros

  • Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

    Ties Boerma;Jennifer Requejo;Cesar G Victora;Agbessi Amouzou

  • Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries

    Ellen Van de Poel;Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Niko Speybroeck;Tom Van Ourti

  • Monitoring universal health coverage within the Sustainable Development Goals: development and baseline data for an index of essential health services

    Daniel R Hogan;Gretchen A Stevens;Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Ties Boerma

  • Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Eddy Van Doorslaer;Niko Speybroeck;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey.

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Nicole Bergen;Anton Kunst;Shirley Harper

  • Within country inequalities in caesarean section rates: observational study of 72 low and middle income countries.

    Adeline Adwoa Boatin;Anne Schlotheuber;Ana Pilar Betran;Ann-Beth Moller

  • A global assessment of the gender gap in self-reported health with survey data from 59 countries

    Ties Boerma;Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Emese Verdes;Somnath Chatterji

  • Socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: Results from the World Health Survey

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Nicole Bergen;Shanthi Mendis;Sam Harper

  • Social determinants of self-reported health in women and men: understanding the role of gender in population health.

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Jennifer Stewart Williams;Avni Amin;Islene Araujo de Carvalho

  • Iran in transition.

    Goodarz Danaei;Farshad Farzadfar;Roya Kelishadi;Arash Rashidian;Arash Rashidian

  • Malnutrition and the disproportional burden on the poor: the case of Ghana.

    Ellen Van de Poel;Ellen Van de Poel;Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Caroline Jehu-Appiah;Jeanette Vega

  • Promoting health equity: WHO health inequality monitoring at global and national levels

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Nicole Bergen;Anne Schlotheuber

  • Socioeconomic inequality in smoking in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey.

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Lucy Anne Parker;Edouard Tursan d'Espaignet;Somnath Chatterji

  • Socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran and across its provinces

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Kazem Mohammad;Reza Majdzadeh;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Socioeconomic Inequality in Disability Among Adults: A Multicountry Study Using the World Health Survey

    Ahmad R. Hosseinpoor;Jennifer A. Stewart Williams;Jeny Gautam;Aleksandra Posarac

  • Air pollution and hospitalization due to angina pectoris in Tehran, Iran: a time-series study.

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar;Masoud Yunesian;Fariba Asghari

  • Social Determinants of Smoking in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results from the World Health Survey

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Lucy Anne Parker;Edouard Tursan d'Espaignet;Somnath Chatterji

  • Socio-economic Inequality in Oral Healthcare Coverage Results from the World Health Survey

    A.R. Hosseinpoor;L. Itani;P.E. Petersen

  • Equity-oriented monitoring in the context of universal health coverage.

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Nicole Bergen;Theadora Koller;Amit Prasad

  • Social determinants of sex differences in disability among older adults: a multi-country decomposition analysis using the World Health Survey

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Jennifer Stewart Williams;Ben Jann;Paul Kowal;Paul Kowal

  • Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT): software for exploring and comparing health inequalities in countries

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Devaki Nambiar;Anne Schlotheuber;Daniel Reidpath

Frequent Co-Authors

Aluísio J. D. Barros
Aluísio J. D. Barros Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Reza Majdzadeh
Reza Majdzadeh University of Essex
Sam Harper
Sam Harper McGill University
Agbessi Amouzou
Agbessi Amouzou Johns Hopkins University
Arash Rashidian
Arash Rashidian World Health Organization
Dirk Berkvens
Dirk Berkvens Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Kaveh Madani
Kaveh Madani Yale University
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Veerabhadran Ramanathan University of California, San Diego
Seyed Moayed Alavian
Seyed Moayed Alavian Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences

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