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Publications in peer-review journals
Landrum, K. R., Hall, B. J., Smith, E. R., Flores, W. , Lou-Meda, R., & Rice, H. E. (2022). Challenges with pediatric surgical financing and universal health coverage in Guatemala: A qualitative analysis. PLOS global public health , 2 (9), e0000220. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000220
Hernandez, A., Hurtig A-K., San Sebastian, M., Jerez F., & Flores, W. (2022) ‘History obligates us to do it’: Political Capabilities of Indigenous Grassroots Leaders of Health Accountability Initiatives in Rural Guatemala . BMJ Global Health 7 (5). doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2022-008530
Hernandez, A., Hurtig A-K., Goicolea, I., San Sebastian, M., Jerez F., Hernández-Rodriguez, F., & Flores, W. (2020) Building Collective Power in Citizen-led Initiatives for Health Accountability in Guatemala: The Role of Networks. BMC Health Services Research 20 (416) . doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05259-6
Samuel, J., Flores W. , & Frisancho, A. (2020) Social Exclusion and Universal Health Coverage: Health Care Rights and Citizen-led Accountability in Guatemala and Peru. International Journal for Equity in Health 19 (216). doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01308-y
Friedman, E. A., Gostin, L. O., Maleche, A., Nilo, A., Foguito, F., Rugege, U., Stevenson, S., Gitahi, G., Ruano, A. L., Barry, M., Hossain, S., Lucien, F., Rusike, I., Hevia, M., Alwan, A., Cameron, E., Farmer, P., Flores, W ., Hassim, A., Mburu, R., … Periago, M. R. (2020). Global Health in the Age of COVID-19: Responsive Health Systems Through a Right to Health Fund. Health and human rights , 22 (1), 199–207
Flores, W. & Samuel, J. (2019) Grassroots Organisations and the Sustainable Development Goals: No One Left Behind. British Medical Journal (365). doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l2269 Hernández, A., Ruano A.L., Hurtig, A-K.,Goicolea, I., Sebastián, S. & Flores, W. (2019) Pathways to Accountability in Rural Guatemala: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Citizen-led Initiatives for the Right to Health of Indigenous Populations. World Development (113 ) 392-401. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.020
Flores, W. (2019) Youth-Led Anti-Corruption Movement in Post-Conflict Guatemala: ‘Weaving the Future’? IDS Bulletin 50 (3). doi: 10.19088/1968-2019.129 Ceron, A., Crooks, V., Labonte, R., Snyder J., & Flores, W. (2019) Medical Tourism in Guatemala: Qualitatively Exploring How Existing Health System Inequities Facilitate Sector Development. International Journal of Health Services 49 (4). doi: 10.1177/0020731419866085
Wahedi, K., Flores, W. , Beiersmann, C., Bozorgmehr. K., & Jahn, A. (2018) Using Information Communication Technology to Identify Deficits in Rural Health Care: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation from Guatemala. Global Health Action 11 (1). doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2018.1455347
Flores, W. & Hernández, A. (2018) Health Accountability for Indigenous Populations: Confronting Power through Adaptive Action Cycles. IDS Bulletin 49 (2) 19-34. doi:10.19088/1968-2018.133 Sriram, V., Topp, S.M., Schaaf, M., Mishra, A., Flores, W. , Rajasulochana, S.R., & Scott, K. (2018) 10 Best Resources on Power in Health Policy and Systems in Low- and Middle-income Countries. Health Policy Planning 33 (4), 611-621. doi:10.1093/heapol/czy008
Schaaf, M., Chhabra, S., Flores, W. , Feruglio, F., Dasgupta, J., & Ruano, A.L. (2018) Does Information and Communication Technology Add Value to Citizen-Led Accountability Initiatives in Health? Experiences from India and Guatemala. Health and Human Rights 20 (2), 169-184
Hernández, A., Ruano, A.L., Marchal, B., San Sebastián, M., & Flores, W. (2017) Engaging with Complexity to Improve the Health of Indigenous People: a call for the use of Systems Thinking to Tackle Health Inequity. International Journal for Equity in Health 16 (26). doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0521-2
Ooms, G., Beiersmann, C., Flores, W. , Hanefeld, J., Muller, O., Mulumba, M., Ottersen, T., Sarker, M., & Jahn, A. (2017) Synergies and Tensions Between Universal Health Coverage and Global Health Security: Why we Need a Second ‘Maximizing Positive Synergies’ Initiative. BMJ Global Health 2 (e000217)1-4. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000217
Johnston, R., Crooks, V., Cerón, A., Labonté, R., Snyder, J., Núnez, E., & Flores, W. (2016) Providers’ Perspectives on Inbound Medical Tourism in Central America and the Caribbean: Factors Driving and Inhibiting Sector Development and Their Health Equity Implications. Global Health Action 9 (1). doi:10.3402/gha.v9.32760
Flores, W. (2017) The Sustainable Development Goals in the Central America Region: Current Situation, Challenges and Opportunities for Think Tanks. Global Health Governance XI (2), 21-26Cerón A., Ruano, A.L., Sánchez, S., Chew, A.S., Diaz, D., Hernández, A., & Flores, W. (2016) Abuse and Discrimination Towards Indigenous People in Public Health Care Facilities: Experiences from Rural Guatemala. International Journal for Equity in Health 15 (77). doi:10.1186/s12939-016-0367-z
Sheikh K., Freedman, L., Ghaffar, A., Marchal, B., el-Jardali, F., McCaffery, J., de Sardan, J.P., Dal Poz, M., Flores,W. , Garimella, S., & Schaaf, M. (2015) Posting and Transfer: Key to Fostering Trust in Government Health Services. Human Resources for Health (2015) 13 (82). doi 10.1186/s12960-015-0080-9
Ruano, A.L., Sánchez, S., Jerez, F., & Flores W (2015): Making the Post-MDG Global Health Goals Relevant for Highly Inequitable Societies: Findings from a Consultation with Marginalized Populations in Guatemala. International Journal for Equity in Health 13 (57). doi:10.1186/1475-9276-13-57
Ooms, G., Brolan, C., Eggermont, N., Eide, A., Flores, W. , Forman, L., Friedman, E., Thomas Gebauer, T., Gostin, L., Hill, P., Hussain, S., McKee, M., Mulumba, M., Siddiqui, F., Sridhar, D., Van Leemput, L., Waris, A., & Jahn, A. (2013) Universal Health Coverage Anchored in the Right to Health. Bulletin of World Health Organization 91 (2-2A).
Bermejo, R., Abimbola, S., Prashanth, N.S., & Flores, W. (2012) Health Systems Global: An Opportunity to Advance the Health Systems Movement. Health Policy and Planning (27) 535–540
Flores, W. , Chang, J., & Barillas, E. (2011) Rapid Assessment of the Performance of Malaria Control Strategies Implemented by Countries in the Amazon Subregion Using Adequacy Criteria: Case Study. Malaria Journal 10 (379). doi:10.1186/1475-2875-10-379Loewenson, R., Flores, W. , Shukla, A., Kagis, M., Baba, A., Ryklief, A., Mbwili-Muleya, C., & Kakade, D. (2011) Raising the Profile of Participatory Action Research at the 2010 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. MEDICC Review 13 (3), 35–38.
Flores, W. (2010) Los Principios Éticos y los Enfoques Asociados a la Investigación de la Gobernanza en los Sistemas de Salud: Implicaciones Conceptuales y Metodológicas. Revista de Salud Pública 12 (1), 28-39.Flores, W. , & Gómez-Sánchez, I. (2010) La Gobernanza de los Consejos Municipales de Desarrollo de Guatemala: Análisis de Actores y relaciones de Poder . Revista de Salud Pública 12 (1), 138-150.Flores, W. , Ruano, L., & Phe, D. (2009) Social Participation Within a Context of Political Violence: Implications for the Promotion and Exercise of the Right to Health in Guatemala. Health and Human Rights11 (1), 37–48Daniels, N., Flores, W. , et al (2005) An Evidence-Based Approach to Benchmarking the Fairness of Health-Sector Reform in Developing Countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 83 (7), 534–540
Flores, W. , Ochoa, A., Briggs, J., & Kroeger, A .(2003) Economic Costs Associated with Inadequate Drug Prescribing: an Exploratory Study in Chiapas, Mexico. Acta Tropica 88 (1), 57-68Kroeger, A., Ochoa, H., Arana, B., Diaz, A., Rizzo, N., & Flores, W. (2001) Inadequate Drug Advice in Pharmacies of Guatemala and Mexico: the Scale of the Problem and Explanatory Factors. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 95 (6). doi:10.1080/00034983.2001.11813675
Garner, P., Flores, W. , & Tang, S. (2000) Sector-wide Approaches in Developing Countries. British Medical Journal, 321 (129). doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7254.129Dickson, R., Abdullahi, D., Flores, W., Lane, J., Marchand, B., Mwenda, J., Simpson, H., & Garner, P.(1998). Putting Evidence into Practice. World Health Forum , 19 , 311-314
Publications as books and book chapters
Flores, W . & Batzin, B. (2021). Learning for Participatory Governance in the National Health System. In K. Sheikh, & S. Abimbola (Eds.), Learning health systems: pathways to progress: Flagship report of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research Flores, W. , Laurent, E., & Ruger, J.P. (2020). Well-Being as a Pathway to Equity. In (Alonzo L. Plough ed.) Well-Being: Expanding the Definition of Progress. Flores, W. (2019). Micro-level Analysis of Power and its Relevance for Practice. In R. McGee, & J. Petit (Eds.), Power, Empowerment and Social Change. Flores, W. (2016) Public Health for Indigenous People in Guatemala: Monitoring from the Bottom Up. In (David McDonald ed. ) Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services .
Technical reports and briefs
Flores W. , Briggs, J., Crow, R. & Walkowiak, H. (2021) Engaging Civil Society in Social Accountability to Improve Access to and Appropriate Use of Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health-Related Medical Products: A Discussion Paper .Flores, W. & Rivers, M. (2020) Curbing Corruption after Conflict: Anticorruption Mobilization in Guatemala. Flores, W. (2018) Legitimacy from Below: Supporting Indigenous Rights in Guatemala, pp 8-10. In: Examining Civil Society Legitimacy Friedman, E., Flores, W. , Brolan, C., Hill, P., Hussain, S., Mulumba, M., Latif, L., Eggermont, N., & Gostin, L. (2013) Engaging Communities in the post-2015 Global Health Agenda is a Necessity for Human Rights and Social Legitimacy, pp 100-102. In: Global development goals: leave no one behind .
Flores, Walter. (2018). How Can Evidence Bolster Citizen Action? Learning and Adapting for Accountable Public Health in Guatemala. Accountability Research Center, Accountability Note 2. Godt, S., Agyepong, I., Flores, W. , & Sen, G. (2017) Healthy Lives for Vulnerable Women and Children: Applying Health Systems Research .
Halloran, B. & Flores, W. (2015), Mobilizing Accountability: Citizens, Movements and the State, Think Piece, Transparency Accountability Initiative.
Norheim, Ole Frithjof ; Ottersen, Trygve ; Chitah, Bona ; Cookson, Richard ; Daniels, Norman ; Eyal, Nir ; Flores, Walter ; Gosseries, Axel ; Hausman, Daniel ; Hurst, Samia ; Kapiriri, Lydia ; Ord, Toby ; Segall, Shlomi ; Defaye, Frehiwot ; Voorhoeve, Alex & Yamin, Alicia (2014). Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage .
Guerzovich, F., Rosenzweig, S. & Flores, W. (2014) Learning Across Localities: Looking at Transparency and Accountability’s Local Context More Systematically
Flores, W. & Zakus, D. (2011) Country Actors and Communities for Participatory Implementation Research. Chapter 8 in: Implementation research for the control of infectious diseases of poverty: strengthening the evidence base for the access and delivery of new and improved tools, strategies and interventions Flores, Walter. (2010) Aproximación a la Gobernanza del Sistema de Salud de Guatemala y las Políticas Públicas de Salud –Guatemala. Flores, W. & Ruano, A.L. (2009) Atención Primaria en Salud y Participación Social: Análisis del Contexto Histórico en América Latina, de los Desafíos Actuales y las Oportunidades Existentes. En: Salud Para Todos: Una Meta Posible Flores, W. (2008) Sistema de Salud de Guatemala, ¿Así Funcionamos?
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