The state of international collaboration for health systems research: what do publications tell?

Table 10 Health systems papers by income region or international agency origin of corresponding author and by topic medline 1991–2003*.

TOPIC	Corresponding author's income region/Int.agency						TOTAL
	High Income		Int. Agency		Developing country
	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%
Accessibility	63	31	10	5	131	64	204	100
Community participation	190	25	27	4	542	71	759	100
Cost and cost effectiveness	346	38	69	8	508	55	923	100
Descentralization	42	31	3	2	90	67	135	100
Economic and social policy and health	38	28	-	-	98	72	136	100
Equity	169	32	21	4	337	64	527	100
Finance	158	45	9	3	186	53	353	100
Human resources	105	28	7	2	265	70	377	100
Information systems	81	25	12	4	238	72	331	100
Information, Education and Communication	435	33	17	1	853	65	1,306	100
Insurance	115	54	5	2	94	44	215	100
Organization and delivery	212	32	24	4	423	64	658	100
Pharmaceutical policy and management	145	25	11	2	411	73	567	100
Policy process	180	21	68	8	608	71	856	100
Program evaluation	134	22	22	4	457	75	613	100
Quality of care	76	22	-	-	268	78	344	100
Research Policy and process	17	25	-	-	50	75	66	100
Sector analysis	316	45	47	7	332	48	696	100
TOTAL	2,821		353		5,892		9,066

* Projected on the basis of a sample of 13% of all papers that were content analyzed.

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