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Research

• Gender bias in under-five mortality in low/middle-income countries (28 July, 2017)

  Janaína Calu Costa, Inacio Crochemore Mohnsam da Silva, Cesar Gomes Victora
• Comparative analysis of gender differences in outcomes after trauma in India and the USA: case for standardised coding of injury mechanisms in trauma registries (31 August, 2017)

  Mohini Dasari, Siddarth D David, Elizabeth Miller, Juan Carlos Puyana, Nobhojit Roy
• Community preferences for a social health insurance benefit package: an exploratory study among the uninsured in Vietnam (20 July, 2017)

  Hoa Thi Nguyen, Tinh Viet Luu, Gerald Leppert, Manuela De Allegri
• Implementation of effective practices in health facilities: a systematic review of cluster randomised trials (20 July, 2017)

  Emma R Allanson, Özge Tunçalp, Joshua P Vogel, Dina N Khan, Olufemi T Oladapo, Qian Long, Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu
• Does expanding primary healthcare improve hospital efficiency? Evidence from a panel analysis of avoidable hospitalisations in 5506 municipalities in Brazil, 2000–2014 (20 July, 2017)

  Everton Nunes da Silva, Timothy Powell-Jackson
• Is more research always needed? Estimating optimal sample sizes for trials of retention in care interventions for HIV-positive East Africans (20 July, 2017)

  Jennifer Uyei, Lingfeng Li, R Scott Braithwaite
• Mapping global policy discourse on antimicrobial resistance (13 July, 2017)

  Didier Wernli, Peter S Jørgensen, Chantal M Morel, Scott Carroll, Stephan Harbarth, Nicolas Levrat, Didier Pittet
• Levels and trends of childhood undernutrition by wealth and education according to a Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure: evidence from 146 Demographic and Health Surveys from 39 countries (11 July, 2017)

  Sebastian Vollmer, Kenneth Harttgen, Roland Kupka, S V Subramanian
• Impact of a malaria intervention package in schools on Plasmodium infection, anaemia and cognitive function in schoolchildren in Mali: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial

  (28 June, 2017)

  Siân E Clarke, Saba Rouhani, Seybou Diarra, Renion Saye, Modibo Bamadio, Rebecca Jones, Diahara Traore, Klenon Traore, Matthew CH Jukes, Josselin Thuilliez, Simon Brooker, Natalie Roschnik, Moussa Sacko
• Gendered negotiations for research participation in community-based studies: implications for health research policy and practice (7 June, 2017)

  Dorcas M Kamuya, Catherine, S Molyneux, Sally Theobald
• Everyday resilience in district health systems: emerging insights from the front lines in Kenya and South Africa (2 June, 2017)

  Lucy Gilson, Edwine Barasa, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Susan Cleary, Jane Goudge, Sassy Molyneux, Benjamin Tsofa, Uta Lehmann
• Out-of-pocket expenditures for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in general and specialised cardiac hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional cohort study (2 June, 2017)

  Mieraf Taddesse Tolla, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Stéphane Verguet, Abebe Bekele, Kassahun Amenu, Senbeta Guteta Abdisa, Kjell Arne Johansson
• Prevalence of non-communicable disease risk factors in three sites across Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional study (14 June, 2017)

  Patricia Rarau, Gwendalyn Vengiau, Hebe Gouda, Suparat Phuanukoonon, Isi H Kevau, Chris Bullen, Robert Scragg, Ian Riley, Geoffrey Marks, Masahiro Umezaki, Ayako Morita, Brian Oldenburg, Barbara McPake, Justin Pulford
• Use of standardised patients to assess quality of healthcare in Nairobi, Kenya: a pilot, cross-sectional study with international comparisons (10 June, 2017)

  Benjamin Daniels, Amy Dolinger, Guadalupe Bedoya, Khama Rogo, Ana Goicoechea, Jorge Coarasa, Francis Wafula, Njeri Mwaura, Redemptar Kimeu, Jishnu Das
• Causes of severe visual impairment and blindness in students in schools for the blind in Northwest Ethiopia (10 June, 2017)

  Mulusew Asferaw, Geoffrey Woodruff, Clare Gilbert
• Is the South African Triage Scale valid for use in Afghanistan, Haiti and Sierra Leone? (15 June, 2017)

  Mohammed Dalwai, Pola Valles, Michele Twomey, Yvonne Nzomukunda, Prince Jonjo, Manoj Sasikumar, Masood Nasim, Abdul Razaaq, Olivia Gayraud, Pierre Ronald Jecrois, Lee Wallis, Katie Tayler-Smith
• Global investment targets for malaria control and elimination between 2016 and 2030 (30 May, 2017)

  Edith Patouillard, Jamie Griffin, Samir Bhatt, Azra Ghani, Richard Cibulskis
• Conflict in Somalia: impact on child undernutrition (29 May, 2017)

  Damaris K Kinyoki, Grainne M Moloney, Olalekan A Uthman, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Elijah O Odundo, Abdisalan M Noor, James A Berkley
• Assessing the Brazilian surgical system with six surgical indicators: a descriptive and modelling study (18 May, 2017)

  Benjamin B Massenburg, Saurabh Saluja, Hillary E Jenny, Nakul P Raykar, Josh Ng-Kamstra, Aline G A Guilloux, Mário C Scheffer, John G Meara, Nivaldo Alonso, Mark G Shrime
• Impact of the global financial crisis on low birth weight in Portugal: a time-trend analysis (6 March, 2017)

  Musa Abubakar Kana, Sofia Correia, Barbara Peleteiro, Milton Severo, Henrique Barros
• Healthcare-seeking behaviour, barriers and mental health of non-domestic migrant workers in Singapore (9 March, 2017)

  Jia Wei Ang, Colin Chia, Calvin J Koh, Brandon W B Chua, Shyamala Narayanaswamy, Limin Wijaya, Lai Gwen Chan, Wei Leong Goh, Shawn Vasoo
• ‘We identify, discuss, act and promise to prevent similar deaths’: a qualitative study of Ethiopia's Maternal Death Surveillance and Response system (14 March, 2017)

  Berhanu Abebe, Joanna Busza, Azmach Hadush, Abdurehman Usmael, Amsalu Belew Zeleke, Sahle Sita, Solomon Hailu, Wendy J Graham
• Financing for universal health coverage in small island states: evidence from the Fiji Islands (21 March, 2017)

  Augustine D Asante, Wayne Irava, Supon Limwattananon, Andrew Hayen, Joao Martins, Lorna Guinness, John E Ataguba, Jennifer Price, Stephen Jan, Anne Mills, Virginia Wiseman
• Modelling the health and economic impacts of the elimination of river blindness (onchocerciasis) in Africa (24 March, 2017)

  Young Eun Kim, Wilma A Stolk, Marcel Tanner, Fabrizio Tediosi
• Disease prevalence among nursery school children after the Great East Japan earthquake (27 March, 2017)

  Mami Ishikuro, Hiroko Matsubara, Masahiro Kikuya, Taku Obara, Yuki Sato, Hirohito Metoki, Tsuyoshi Isojima, Susumu Yokoya, Noriko Kato, Toshiaki Tanaka, Shoichi Chida, Atsushi Ono, Mitsuaki Hosoya, Hiroshi Yokomichi, Zentaro Yamagata, Soichiro Tanaka, Shigeo Kure, Shinichi Kuriyama
• Sex differences in coronary heart disease and stroke mortality: a global assessment of the effect of ageing between 1980 and 2010 (27 March, 2017)

  Sophie H Bots, Sanne A E Peters, Mark Woodward
• Quality assurance of medicines supplied to low-income and middle-income countries: poor products in shiny boxes? (29 March, 2017)

  A Nebot Giralt, B Schiavetti, B Meessen, C Pouget, J M Caudron, B Marchal, P Massat, S Thys, R Ravinetto
• Are national policies on global health in fact national policies on global health governance? A comparison of policy designs from Norway and Switzerland (4 April, 2017)

  Catherine M Jones, Carole Clavier, Louise Potvin
• Countdown to 2015: an analysis of donor funding for prenatal and neonatal health, 2003–2013 (4 April, 2017)

  Catherine Pitt, Christopher Grollman, Melisa Martínez-Álvarez, Leonardo Arregoces, Joy E Lawn, Josephine Borghi
• Earned print media in advancing tobacco control in Himachal Pradesh, India: a descriptive study (7 April, 2017)

  Renu Sharma, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Balasubramaniam Gopalan, Ramesh Kumar Badrel, Jugdeep Singh Rana
• Do changes to supply chains and procurement processes yield cost savings and improve availability of pharmaceuticals, vaccines or health products? A systematic review of evidence from low-income and middle-income countries (13 April, 2017)

  Gabriel Seidman, Rifat Atun
• ‘They will be afraid to touch you’: LGBTI people and sex workers' experiences of accessing healthcare in Zimbabwe—an in-depth qualitative study (13 April, 2017)

  Jennifer Hunt, Katherine Bristowe, Sybille Chidyamatare, Richard Harding
• Effects of economic downturns on child mortality: a global economic analysis, 1981–2010 (18 April, 2017)

  Mahiben Maruthappu, Robert A Watson, Johnathan Watkins, Thomas Zeltner, Rosalind Raine, Rifat Atun