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Research

• ‘Nobody is after you; it is your initiative to start work’: a qualitative study of health workforce absenteeism in rural Uganda (29 December, 2017)

  Raymond Tweheyo, Gavin Daker-White, Catherine Reed, Linda Davies, Suzanne Kiwanuka, Stephen Campbell
• Relationship between growth and illness, enteropathogens and dietary intakes in the first 2 years of life: findings from the MAL-ED birth cohort study (28 December, 2017)

  MAL-ED Network Investigators
• Prevalence and determinants of tobacco use among young people in The Gambia (28 December, 2017)

  Isatou K Jallow, John Britton, Tessa Langley
• Vertical and horizontal equity of funding for malaria control: a global multisource funding analysis for 2006–2010 (28 December, 2017)

  Eliana Barrenho, Marisa Miraldo, Mujaheed Shaikh, Rifat Atun
• Variations in disability and quality of life with age and sex between eight lower income and middle-income countries: data from the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration (20 December, 2017)

  Francesc Xavier Gomez-Olive, Julia Schröders, Isabella Aboderin, Peter Byass, Somnath Chatterji, Justine I Davies, Cornelius Debpuur, Siddhivinayak Hirve, Abraham Hodgson, Sanjay Juvekar, Kathleen Kahn, Paul Kowal, Rose Nathan, Nawi Ng, Abdur Razzaque, Osman Sankoh, Peter K Streatfield, Stephen M Tollman, Siswanto A Wilopo, Miles D Witham
• Wealth inequality as a predictor of HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria (20 December, 2017)

  Lena Faust, Sanni Yaya, Michael Ekholuenetale
• Does greater individual social capital improve the management of hypertension? Cross-national analysis of 61 229 individuals in 21 countries (17 December, 2017)

  Benjamin Palafox, Yevgeniy Goryakin, David Stuckler, Marc Suhrcke, Dina Balabanova, Khalid F Alhabib, Alvaro Avezum, Ahmad Bahonar, Xiulin Bai, Jephat Chifamba, Antonio L Dans, Rafael Diaz, Rajeev Gupta, Romaina Iqbal, Noorhassim Ismail, Manmeet Kaur, Mirac V Keskinler, Rasha Khatib, Annamarie Kruger, Iolanthe M Kruger, Fernando Lanas, Scott A Lear, Wei Li, Jia Liu, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Nasheeta Peer, Paul Poirier, Omar Rahman, Rajamohanan K Pillai, Sumathy Rangarajan, Annika Rosengren, Sumathi Swaminathan, Andrzej Szuba, Koon Teo, Yang Wang, Andreas Wielgosz, Karen E Yeates, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Salim Yusuf, Martin McKee
• ‘We lost because of his drunkenness’: the social processes linking alcohol use to self-harm in the context of daily life stress in marriages and intimate relationships in rural Sri Lanka (5 December, 2017)

  Jane Brandt Sørensen, Thilini Agampodi, Birgitte Refslund Sørensen, Sisira Siribaddana, Flemming Konradsen, Thilde Rheinländer
• Does audit and feedback improve the adoption of recommended practices? Evidence from a longitudinal observational study of an emerging clinical network in Kenya (23 October, 2017)

  Susan Gachau, Philip Ayieko, David Gathara, Paul Mwaniki, Morris Ogero, Samuel Akech, Michuki Maina, Ambrose Agweyu, Jacquie Oliwa, Thomas Julius, Lucas Malla, James Wafula, George Mbevi, Grace Irimu, Mike English
• Efficacy of a bovine colostrum and egg-based intervention in acute childhood diarrhoea in Guatemala: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (4 December, 2017)

  James T Gaensbauer, Mario A Melgar, Diva M Calvimontes, Molly M Lamb, Edwin J Asturias, Ingrid L Contreras-Roldan, Samuel R Dominguez, Christine C Robinson, Stephen Berman
• National survey of Ebola-related knowledge, attitudes and practices before the outbreak peak in Sierra Leone: August 2014 (4 December, 2017)

  Mohamed F Jalloh, Paul Sengeh, Roeland Monasch, Mohammad B Jalloh, Nickolas DeLuca, Meredith Dyson, Sheku Golfa, Yukiko Sakurai, Lansana Conteh, Samuel Sesay, Vance Brown, Wenshu Li, Jonathan Mermin, Rebecca Bunnell
• Thirty-year trends in the prevalence and severity of female genital mutilation: a comparison of 22 countries (25 November, 2017)

  Alissa Koski, Jody Heymann
• Improving postpartum care delivery and uptake by implementing context-specific interventions in four countries in Africa: a realist evaluation of the Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project (25 November, 2017)

  Nehla Djellouli, Sue Mann, Bejoy Nambiar, Paula Meireles, Diana Miranda, Henrique Barros, Fadima Y Bocoum, W Maurice E Yaméogo, Clarisse Yaméogo, Sylvie Belemkoabga, Halima Tougri, Abou Coulibaly, Seni Kouanda, Vernon Mochache, Omar K Mwakusema, Eunice Irungu, Peter Gichangi, Zione Dembo, Angela Kadzakumanja, Charles Vidonji Makwenda, Judite Timóteo, Misete G Cossa, Malica de Melo, Sally Griffin, Nafissa B Osman, Severiano Foia, Emilomo Ogbe, Els Duysburgh, Tim Colbourn
• Implementation of the free maternity services policy and its implications for health system governance in Kenya (12 November, 2017)

  Thidar Pyone, Helen Smith, Nynke van den Broek
• Health extension workers improve tuberculosis case finding and treatment outcome in Ethiopia: a large-scale implementation study (2 November, 2017)

  Daniel G Datiko, Mohammed A Yassin, Sally J Theobald, Lucie Blok, Sahu Suvanand, Jacob Creswell, Luis E Cuevas
• What is health systems responsiveness? Review of existing knowledge and proposed conceptual framework (31 October, 2017)

  Tolib Mirzoev, Sumit Kane
• Is governance, gross domestic product, inequality, population size or country surface area associated with coverage and equity of health interventions? Ecological analyses of cross-sectional surveys from 80 countries (31 October, 2017)

  Fernando C Wehrmeister, Inácio Crochemore M da Silva, Aluisio J D Barros, Cesar G Victora
• Is living in a gas-flaring host community associated with being hypertensive? Evidence from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (31 October, 2017)

  Omosivie Maduka, Charles Tobin-West
• Variation in neonatal mortality and its relation to country characteristics in sub-Saharan Africa: an ecological study (25 October, 2017)

  Gbenga Ayodele Kayode, Diederick E Grobbee, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Evelyn Ansah, Olalekan A Uthman, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch
• Does audit and feedback improve the adoption of recommended practices? Evidence from a longitudinal observational study of an emerging clinical network in Kenya (23 October, 2017)

  Susan Gachau, Philip Ayieko, David Gathara, Paul Mwaniki, Morris Ogero, Samuel Akech, Michuki Maina, Ambrose Agweyu, Jacquie Oliwa, Thomas Julius, Lucas Malla, James Wafula, George Mbevi, Grace Irimu, Mike English
• Adverse effects of exposure to armed conflict on pregnancy: a systematic review (28 November, 2017)

  James Keasley, Jessica Blickwedel, Siobhan Quenby
• Association between urbanisation and type 2 diabetes: an ecological study (23 October, 2017)

  Zakariah Gassasse, Dianna Smith, Sarah Finer, Valentina Gallo
• Social health insurance coverage and financial protection among rural-to-urban internal migrants in China: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study (16 October, 2017)

  Wen Chen, Qi Zhang, Andre M N Renzaho, Fangjing Zhou, Hui Zhang, Li Ling
• Prevalence of substandard and falsified artemisinin-based combination antimalarial medicines on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (15 October, 2017)

  Harparkash Kaur, Elizabeth Louise Allan, Ibrahim Mamadu, Zoe Hall, Michael D Green, Isabel Swamidos, Prabha Dwivedi, Maria Julia Culzoni, Facundo M Fernandez, Guillermo Garcia, Dianna Hergott, Feliciano Monti
• Prevalence of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in the Kashmir Valley (15 October, 2017)

  Tambri Housen, Annick Lenglet, Cono Ariti, Showkat Shah, Helal Shah, Shabnum Ara, Kerri Viney, Simon Janes, Giovanni Pintaldi
• Do attributes of persons with chronic kidney disease differ in low-income and middle-income countries compared with high-income countries? Evidence from population-based data in six countries (9 October, 2017)

  Shuchi Anand, Yuanchao Zheng, Maria E Montez-Rath, Wang Jin Wei, Norberto Perico, Sergio Carminati, KM Venkat Narayan, Nikhil Tandon, Viswanathan Mohan, Vivekanand Jha, Luxia Zhang, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Dorairaj Prabahkaran, Glenn M Chertow
• Understanding and defining sanitation insecurity: women’s gendered experiences of urination, defecation and menstruation in rural Odisha, India (9 October, 2017)

  Bethany A Caruso, Thomas F Clasen, Craig Hadley, Kathryn M Yount, Regine Haardörfer, Manaswini Rout, Munmun Dasmohapatra, Hannah LF Cooper