Publications

Publications in peer-review journals

• Alison Hernandez, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Miguel San Sebastian, Fernando Jerez, Walter Flores (2022) ‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala´
  
  
• Alison Hernández, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián, Fernando Jerez, Francisco Hernández-Rodríguez and Walter Flores (2020) Building collective power in citizen-led initiatives for health accountability in Guatemala: the role of networks BMC Health Services Research
  
  
• Jeannie Samuel, Walter Flores and Ariel Frisancho (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
  
  
• Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Allan Maleche, Alessandra Nilo, Fogue Foguito, Umunyana Rugege,Sasha Stevenson, Githinji Gitahi, Ana Lorena Ruano, Michele Barry, Sara Hossain, Franciscka Lucien, Itai Rusike,Martin Hevia, Ala Alwan, Edwin Cameron, Paul Farmer, Walter Flores, Adila Hassim, Rosemary Mburu, Joia Mukherjee,Moses Mulumba, Dainius Pūras, and Mirta Roses Periago (2020) Global Health in the Age of COVID-19:Responsive Health Systems Through a Right to Health Fund. Health and Human Rights Journal June, volume 22 No1
  
  
• Flores, W. and Samuel, J. (2019) ‘Grassroots Organisations and the Sustainable Development Foals: No One Left Behind’, BMJ 365: l2269
  
  
• Hernández, A; Ruano A.L.; Hurtig, A-K.; Goicolea, I.; Sebastián, S. and 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
  
  
• Flores, W (2019) Youth-Led Anti-Corruption Movement in Post-Conflict Guatemala: ‘Weaving the Future’? IDS Bulletin,Institute of Development Studies
  
  
• Alejandro Ceron, Valorie A. Crooks, Ronald Labonte, Jeremy Snyder, and Walter Flores (2019) Medical Tourism in Guatemala: Qualitatively Exploring How Existing Health System Inequities Facilitate Sector Development, International Journal of Health Services
  
  
• Katharina Wahedi, Walter Flores, Claudia Beiersmann, Kayvan Bozorgmehr and Albrecht Jahn (2018) Using information communication technology to identify deficits in rural health care: a mixed-methods evaluation from Guatemala, GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION, VOL. 11, 1455347
  
  
• Flores, W. and Hernández, A. (2018) ‘Health Accountability for Indigenous Populations: Confronting Power through Adaptive Action Cycles’, IDS Bulletin 49.2: 19-35
  
  
• Sriram V.; Topp, S.M.; Schaaf, M.; Mishra, A.; Flores, W.; Rajasulochana, S.R. and Scott, K. (2018) ‘10 Best Resources on Power in Health Policy and Systems in Low- and Middle-income Countries’, Health Policy Plan 33.4: 611–621
  
  
• Marta Schaaf, Shruti Chhabra, Walter Flores, Francesca Feruglio, Jashodhara Dasgupta and Ana Lorena Ruano (2018) Does Information and Communication Technology Add Value to Citizen-Led Accountability Initiatives in Health? Experiences from India and Guatemala. Health Hum Rights Dec; 20(2): 169–184
  
  
• Hernández, A.; Ruano, A.L.; Marchal, B.; San Sebastián, M. and 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
  
  
• Ooms, G.; Beiersmann, C.; Flores, W.; Hanefeld, J.; Muller, O.; Mulumba.; Ottersen, T.; Sarker, M. and 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 1:e000217: 1-4
  
  
• Rory Johnston, Valorie A. Crooks, Alejandro Cerón, Ronald Labonté, Jeremy Snyder, Emanuel O. Núñez & Walter G. Flores (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, 32760
  
  
• Walter Flores (2017) The Sustainable Development Goals in the Central America Region: Current Situation, Challenges and Opportunities for Think Tanks,  Global Health Governance, Volume XI, No. 2, Autum, pp 21-26.
  
  
• Cerón A.; Ruano, A.L.; Sánchez, S.; Chew, A.S.; Diaz, D; Hernández, A. and 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
  
  
• Kabir Sheikh, Lynn Freedman, Abdul Ghaffar, Bruno Marchal, Fadi el-Jardali, Jim McCaffery, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Mario Dal Poz, Walter Flores, Surekha Garimella and Marta Schaaf  (2015) Posting and transfer: key to fostering trust in government health services. Human Resources for Health (2015) 13:82
  
  
• Ana Lorena Ruano, Silvia Sánchez, Fernando José Jerez and Walter Flores: 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 2014 13:57.
  
  
• Gorik Ooms, Claire Brolan, Natalie Eggermont, Asbjørn Eide, Walter Flores, Lisa Forman, Eric A Friedman, Thomas Gebauer, Lawrence O Gostin, Peter S Hill, Sameera Hussain, Martin McKee, Moses Mulumba, Faraz Siddiqui, Devi Sridhar, Luc Van Leemput, Attiya Waris & Albrecht Jahn (2013) Universal health coverage anchored in the right to health. Bull World Health Organ 91:2–2A
  
  
• Raoul Bermejo III, Seye Abimbola, NS Prashanth and Walter Flores (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 
  
  
• Loewenson R, Flores W, Shukla A, Kagis M, Baba A, Ryklief A, Mbwili-Muleya  C, Kakde D (2011) Raising the Profile of Participatory Action Research at the 2010 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. MEDICC Review Vol 13, No 3 pp 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, Volumen 12,  Suplement 1, April, pp 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,  Volumen 12,  Suplement 1, April, pp 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 Rights: An International Journal (September issue).
  
  
• Daniels 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 83:534-540.
  
  
• Flores W, Ochoa A, Briggs A, Kroeger A (2003) Economic costs associated with inadequate drug prescribing: an exploratory study in Chiapas, Mexico. Acta Tropica 88 (2003) 57-68
  
  
• Kroeger 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 95:605-616
  
  
• Garner P, Flores W, Tang S (2000) Sector-wide approaches in Developing countries. British Medical Journal 321:129-130
  
  
• R. Dickson, D. Abdullahi, W. Flores, J. Lane, B. Marchand, J. Mwenda, H. Simpson & P. Garner. (1998). Putting Evidence into Practice. World Health Forum, Volume 19. Pp 311-314
  
  

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Publications as books and book chapters

• Walter Flores and Benilda Batzin (2021) Guatemala – Learning for participatory governance in the national health system, pp 100-104. In: Learning health systems: pathways to progress. Flagship report of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research/ Kabir Sheikh, Seye Abimbola, editors. World Health Organization.
  
  
• Walter Flores, Eloi Laurent, and Jennifer Prah Ruger (2020). Well-Being as a Pathway to Equity.  Chapter 1 in: Alonzo L. Plough (editor) Well-Being: Expanding the Definition of Progress. Oxford University Press.
  
  
• Flores, W (2019) Micro-level Analysis of Power and its Relevance for Practice. In: Power, Empowerment and Social Change. Edited by Rosemary McGee and Jethro Petit.
  
  
• Walter Flores (2018) Legitimacy From Below: Supporting Indigenous Rights in Guatemala, pp 8-10. In: Examining Civil Society Legitimacy. Saskia Brechenmacher and Thomas Carothers (editors) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  
  
• Sue Godt, Irene Agyepong, Walter Flores, and Gita Sen (2017) Healthy lives for vulnerable women and children : applying health systems research. International Development Research Centre. Ottawa, Canada.
  
  
• Walter Flores (2016) Public health for indigenous people in Guatemala: monitoring from the bottom up. Chapter 5 in: Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services. David McDonald (editor). Zed Books, London.
  
  
• Eric A. Friedman, Walter Flores,  Claire Brolan, Peter Hill, Sameera Hussain, Moses Mulumba, Laila A. Latif, Natalie Eggermont and Lawrence O. Gostin (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. UNA-UK.
  
  
• Walter Flores and David Zakus (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. World Health Organization.
  
  
• Flores, Walter (2010) Aproximación a la gobernanza del Sistema de Salud de Guatemala y las políticas públicas de salud –Guatemala. – Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo.
  
  
• Walter Flores (2009) La Salud con Rostro Excluyente. Capítulo 3 en: ¿Derechos o privilegios? El compromiso fiscal con la salud, educación y la alimentación en Guatemala. Guatemala/España: Centro por los Derechos Económicos y Sociales, Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales.
  
  
• Walter Flores y Ana Lorena Ruano (2009) Atención Primaria en Salud y Participación Social: Análisis del contexto histórico en América Latina, de los desafíos actuales y las oportunidades existentes, pp 127-136. En: Salud Para Todos: Una Meta Posible. Ana Hardoy (editora). IIED-América Latina Publicaciones. Buenos Aires.
  
  
• Walter Flores (2008).  ¿Sistema de Salud de Guatemala, Así funcionamos? 4, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo. Guatemala

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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.  Prepared for the US Agency for International Development by the USAID Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program
  
  
• Flores W, Rivers M (2020) Curbing Corruption after Conflict: Anticorruption Mobilization in Guatemala. Special Report No. 482 United States Institute of Peace ISBN: 978-1-60127-826-5
  
  
• Flores, Walter (2018). How Can Evidence Bolster Citizen Action? Learning and Adapting for Accountable Public Health in Guatemala. Accountability Research Center, Accountability Note 2.
  
  
• Brendan Halloran and Walter Flores (2015), Mobilizing Accountability: Citizens, Movements and the State, Think Piece, Transparency Accountability Initiative.
  
  
• Florencia Guerzovich, Steven Rosenzweig, Walter Flores (2014) Learning Across Localities: Looking at Transparency and Accountability’s Local Context More Systematically Think Piece. Transparency & Accountability Initiative