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Obinna Onwujekwe

Obinna Onwujekwe

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
69
Citations
57335
World Ranking
786
National Ranking
1

Overview

Obinna Onwujekwe is affiliated with the University of Nigeria in Nigeria. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine, Health Professions, and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Within these broader fields, Onwujekwe's work includes significant engagement with General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, and Health as subfields.

The main topics addressed in their work involve Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Global Health Care Issues, Healthcare Policy and Management, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Onwujekwe's recent publications include:

  • The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation (2022, The Lancet)
  • Morbidity and mortality from road injuries: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (2020, Injury Prevention)
  • Exploring factors constraining utilization of contraceptive services among adolescents in Southeast Nigeria: an application of the socio-ecological model (2020, BMC Public Health)
  • Exploring issues in caregivers and parent communication of sexual and reproductive health matters with adolescents in Ebonyi state, Nigeria (2020, BMC Public Health)
  • Beliefs and misconceptions about contraception and condom use among adolescents in south-east Nigeria (2021, Reproductive Health)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Chinyere Mbachu
  • Prince Agwu
  • Ifunanya Clara Agu
  • Nkoli Ezumah
  • Enyi Etiaba

In terms of publication venues, Onwujekwe has a notable presence in:

  • Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • BMC Health Services Research

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

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  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Haidong Wang;Kaja M. Abbas;Mitra Abbasifard;Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari

  • The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Mohammad Abbasi

  • Measuring socio-economic position for epidemiological studies in low- and middle-income countries: a methods of measurement in epidemiology paper

    Laura D Howe;Bruna Galobardes;Alicia Matijasevich;David Gordon

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;John Everett Mumford;Megan Knight

  • Past, present, and future of global health financing: A review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 195 countries, 1995-2050

    Angela Y. Chang;Krycia Cowling;Angela E. Micah;Abigail Chapin

  • Measuring the availability of human resources for health and its relationship to universal health coverage for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Katherine R Paulson;Aruna M Kamath;Tahiya Alam;Kelly Bienhoff

  • The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation

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  • Health care financing in Nigeria: Implications for achieving universal health coverage

    Bsc Uzochukwu;Ughasoro;E Etiaba;C Okwuosa

  • Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1

    Unknown

  • Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: development assistance and domestic spending on health between 1990 and 2026

    Unknown

  • Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Joseph L Ward;Peter S Azzopardi;Kate Louise Francis;John S Santelli

  • Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017

    Roy Burstein;Nathaniel J. Henry;Michael L. Collison;Laurie B. Marczak

  • Assessing performance of the Healthcare Access and Quality Index, overall and by select age groups, for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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  • Global injury morbidity and mortality from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Spencer L James;Chris D Castle;Zachary V Dingels;Jack T Fox

  • Willingness to pay for community-based health insurance in Nigeria: do economic status and place of residence matter?

    Obinna Onwujekwe;Ekechi Okereke;Chima Onoka;Benjamin Uzochukwu

  • The global distribution of lymphatic filariasis, 2000–18: a geospatial analysis

    Aniruddha Deshpande;Molly K. Miller-Petrie;Paulina A. Lindstedt;Mathew M. Baumann

  • Some indicators of socio-economic status may not be reliable and use of indices with these data could worsen equity.

    Obinna Onwujekwe;Obinna Onwujekwe;Kara Hanson;Julia Fox-Rushby

  • Socio-economic differences and health seeking behaviour for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria: a case study of four local government areas operating the Bamako initiative programme in south-east Nigeria

    Benjamin Sc Uzochukwu;Obinna E Onwujekwe

  • Willingness to pay for rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria: ex post and ex ante

    Benjamin Sc Uzochukwu;Obinna E Onwujekwe;Nkoli P Uguru;Maduka D Ughasoro

  • Determinants of non-adherence to subsidized anti-retroviral treatment in southeast Nigeria.

    B S C Uzochukwu;O E Onwujekwe;A C Onoka;C Okoli

  • Community satisfaction with the quality of maternal and child health services in southeast Nigeria.

    B. S. C. Uzochukwu;O. E. Onwujekwe;C. O. Akpala

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Uzochukwu
Benjamin Uzochukwu University of Nigeria
Kara Hanson
Kara Hanson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Virginia Wiseman
Virginia Wiseman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Mustafa Z Younis
Mustafa Z Younis Jackson State University
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Paul S. F. Yip
Paul S. F. Yip University of Hong Kong
Andre M. N. Renzaho
Andre M. N. Renzaho Western Sydney University
Mihajlo Jakovljevic
Mihajlo Jakovljevic University of Kragujevac
David C. Schwebel
David C. Schwebel University of Alabama at Birmingham
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University

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