Table of contents

Original research

• Impact of financial management centralisation in a health system under austerity: a qualitative study from South Africa (29 October, 2020)

  Jodi Wishnia, Jane Goudge
• Advances and challenges on the path toward the SDGs: subnational inequalities in Mexico, 1990–2017 (29 October, 2020)

  Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Marcela Agudelo-Botero, Sebastian Garcia-Saiso, Carolina Zepeda-Tena, Claudio Alberto Davila-Cervantes, Maria Cecilia Gonzalez-Robledo, Nancy Fullman, Christian Razo, Bernardo Hernández-Prado, Gabriel Martínez, Simón Barquera, Rafael Lozano
• Bridging research integrity and global health epidemiology (BRIDGE) statement: guidelines for good epidemiological practice (28 October, 2020)

  Sandra Alba, Kristien Verdonck, Annick Lenglet, Susan F Rumisha, Martijn Wienia, Imre Teunissen, Masja Straetemans, Walter Mendoza, Daniel Jeannetot, Daniel Weibel, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Sanjay Juvekar
• Factors associated with head circumference and indices of cognitive development in early childhood (28 October, 2020)

  Laura Nicolaou, Tahmeed Ahmed, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Pascal Bessong, Margaret Kosek, Aldo A M Lima, Sanjaya Shrestha, Ram Chandyo, Estomih R Mduma, Laura Murray-Kolb, Brooks Morgan, Matthew R Grigsby, William Checkley
• Assessing the efficiency of countries in making progress towards universal health coverage: a data envelopment analysis of 172 countries (28 October, 2020)

  Emma Jordi, Caitlin Pley, Matthew Jowett, Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli
• High excess mortality in areas with young and socially vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 outbreak in Stockholm Region, Sweden (27 October, 2020)

  Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Davide L Vetrano, Debora Rizzuto, Tom Bellander, Laura Fratiglioni, Serhiy Dekhtyar
• In pursuit of ‘safe’ water: the burden of personal injury from water fetching in 21 low-income and middle-income countries (28 October, 2020)

  Vidya Venkataramanan, Jo-Anne L Geere, Benjamin Thomae, Justin Stoler, Paul R Hunter, Sera L Young
• What is considered as global health scholarship? A meta-knowledge analysis of global health journals and definitions (27 October, 2020)

  Salma M Abdalla, Hiwote Solomon, Ludovic Trinquart, Sandro Galea
• Validation analysis of Global Health Security Index (GHSI) scores 2019 (26 October, 2020)

  Matthew J Boyd, Nick Wilson, Cassidy Nelson
• How many human pathogens are there in Laos? An estimate of national human pathogen diversity and analysis of historical trends (22 October, 2020)

  Madeleine Claire Clarkson, Ricardo Aguas, Kathryn Sweet, Tamalee Roberts, Michel Strobel, Paul N Newton
• Is health politically irrelevant? Experimental evidence during a global pandemic (23 October, 2020)

  Arnab Acharya, John Gerring, Aaron Reeves
• Social media and vaccine hesitancy (23 October, 2020)

  Steven Lloyd Wilson, Charles Wiysonge
• Geospatial evaluation of trade-offs between equity in physical access to healthcare and health systems efficiency (21 October, 2020)

  Hari S Iyer, John Flanigan, Nicholas G Wolf, Lee Frederick Schroeder, Susan Horton, Marcia C Castro, Timothy R Rebbeck
• Reusability of filtering facepiece respirators after decontamination through drying and germicidal UV irradiation (21 October, 2020)

  David Vernez, Jonathan Save, Anne Oppliger, Nicolas Concha-Lozano, Nancy B Hopf, Hélène Niculita-Hirzel, Grégory Resch, Véronique Michaud, Laurie Dorange-Pattoret, Nicole Charrière, Kiattisak Batsungnoen, Guillaume Suarez
• Not just money: what mothers value in conditional cash transfer programs in India (21 October, 2020)

  Krishna D Rao, Shivani Kachwaha, Avril Kaplan, David Bishai
• Burden of cardiovascular diseases associated with fine particulate matter in Beijing, China: an economic modelling study (20 October, 2020)

  Yawen Jiang, Shan Jiang, Weiyi Ni
• Assessing the value of human papillomavirus vaccination in Gavi-eligible low-income and middle-income countries (20 October, 2020)

  Jessica Ochalek, Kaja Abbas, Karl Claxton, Mark Jit, James Lomas
• From words to actions: systematic review of interventions to promote sexual and reproductive health of persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (15 October, 2020)

  Shaffa Hameed, Alexander Maddams, Hattie Lowe, Lowri Davies, Rajat Khosla, Tom Shakespeare
• Undernutrition, polygynous context and family structure: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional surveys of 350 000 mother–child pairs from 32 countries (15 October, 2020)

  Seun Stephen Anjorin, Olalekan A Uthman, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Ghose Bishwajit, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh, Sanni Yaya
• Use of interrupted time series methods in the evaluation of health system quality improvement interventions: a methodological systematic review (14 October, 2020)

  Celestin Hategeka, Hinda Ruton, Mohammad Karamouzian, Larry D Lynd, Michael R Law
• Community engagement for COVID-19 prevention and control: a rapid evidence synthesis (13 October, 2020)

  Brynne Gilmore, Rawlance Ndejjo, Adalbert Tchetchia, Vergil de Claro, Elizabeth Mago, Alpha A Diallo, Claudia Lopes, Sanghita Bhattacharyya
• The socioeconomic dynamics of trends in female genital mutilation/cutting across Africa (13 October, 2020)

  Ewa Batyra, Ernestina Coast, Ben Wilson, Valeria Cetorelli
• Gender-transformative programming with men and boys to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights: a systematic review of intervention studies (13 October, 2020)

  Eimear Ruane-McAteer, Kathryn Gillespie, Avni Amin, Áine Aventin, Martin Robinson, Jennifer Hanratty, Rajat Khosla, Maria Lohan
• Village-level climate and weather variability, mediated by village-level crop yield, is associated with linear growth in children in Uganda (13 October, 2020)

  Paddy Ssentongo, Djibril M Ba, Claudio Fronterre, Vernon M Chinchilli
• Childhood morbidity and its determinants: evidence from 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (12 October, 2020)

  Sulaimon T Adedokun, Sanni Yaya
• Differential yield of universal versus selective drug susceptibility testing of patients with tuberculosis in high-burden countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis (9 October, 2020)

  Anita Svadzian, Giorgia Sulis, Genevieve Gore, Madhukar Pai, Claudia M Denkinger
• Quality assurance systems of pharmaceutical distributors in low-income and middle-income countries: weaknesses and ways forward (9 October, 2020)

  Ariadna Nebot Giralt, Anthony Bourasseau, Gareth White, Corinne Pouget, Patricia Tabernero, Kerlijn Van Assche, Raffaella Ravinetto
• Spatial–temporal trends in forced migrant mortality, 2014–2018 (9 October, 2020)

  Danielle N Poole, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Till Bärnighausen, Stéphane Verguet, Marcia C Castro
• Maternal healthcare coverage for first pregnancies in adolescent girls: a systematic comparison with adult mothers in household surveys across 105 countries, 2000–2019 (9 October, 2020)

  Zhihui Li, George Patton, Farnaz Sabet, SV Subramanian, Chunling Lu
• Trends and inequalities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and adult women in sub-Saharan Africa since 2000: a cross-sectional series study (8 October, 2020)

  Safia S Jiwani, Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez, Inacio Crochemore-Silva, Abdoulaye Maïga, Shelley Walton, Elizabeth Hazel, Barbara Baille, Sujata Bose, William K Bosu, Kofi Busia, Tome CA, Ferima Coulibaly-Zerbo, Cheikh Mbacké Faye, Richard Kumapley, Vrinda Mehra, Serge M A Somda, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Agbessi Amouzou
• Magnitude, temporal trends and inequality in global burden of tracheal, bronchus and lung cancer: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (7 October, 2020)

  Zhaojun Wang, Liu Hu, Jin Li, Li Wei, Junhang Zhang, Jun Zhou
• Stringent containment measures without complete city lockdown to achieve low incidence and mortality across two waves of COVID-19 in Hong Kong (7 October, 2020)

  Martin C S Wong, Rita W Y Ng, Ka Chun Chong, Christopher K C Lai, Junjie Huang, Zigui Chen, Siaw S Boon, Paul K S Chan
• Closing the gap on institutional delivery in northern India: a case study of how integrated machine learning approaches can enable precision public health (7 October, 2020)

  Vincent S Huang, Kasey Morris, Mokshada Jain, Banadakoppa Manjappa Ramesh, Hannah Kemp, James Blanchard, Shajy Isac, Bidyut Sarkar, Vikas Gothalwal, Vasanthakumar Namasivayam, Pankaj Kumar, Sema K Sgaier
• Long-term outcomes for children with disability and severe acute malnutrition in Malawi (7 October, 2020)

  Natasha Lelijveld, Nora Groce, Seema Patel, Theresa Nnensa, Emmanuel Chimwezi, Melissa Gladstone, Macpherson Mallewa, Jonathan Wells, Andrew Seal, Marko Kerac
• Spatial and spatio-temporal methods for mapping malaria risk: a systematic review (5 October, 2020)

  Julius Nyerere Odhiambo, Chester Kalinda, Peter M Macharia, Robert W Snow, Benn Sartorius
• Lactational amenorrhoea among adolescent girls in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review (5 October, 2020)

  Martines N S Figaroa, Saverio Bellizzi, Therese Delvaux, Lenka Benova
• Media trust and infection mitigating behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA (9 October, 2020)

  Erfei Zhao, Qiao Wu, Eileen M Crimmins, Jennifer A Ailshire