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Research

• Does gentle assisted pushing or giving birth in the upright position reduce the duration of the second stage of labour? A three-arm, open-label, randomised controlled trial in South Africa (29 June, 2018)

  G Justus Hofmeyr, Joshua P Vogel, Mandisa Singata, Ndema Abu Habib, Sihem Landoulsi, A Metin Gülmezoglu
• The magnitude and severity of abortion-related morbidity in settings with limited access to abortion services: a systematic review and meta-regression (29 June, 2018)

  Clara Calvert, Onikepe O Owolabi, Felicia Yeung, Rudiger Pittrof, Bela Ganatra, Özge Tunçalp, Alma J Adler, Veronique Filippi
• Sex differences in utilisation of hospital care in a state-sponsored health insurance programme providing access to free services in South India (29 June, 2018)

  Maaz Shaikh, Sanne A E Peters, Mark Woodward, Robyn Norton, Vivekanand Jha
• Measuring progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.8 on universal health coverage in Kenya (27 June, 2018)

  Edwine Barasa, Peter Nguhiu, Di McIntyre
• Qualitative study of Ebola screening at ports of entry to the UK (27 June, 2018)

  Joanna May Kesten, Suzanne Audrey, Maya Holding, Caroline Coope, Nick Young, Colin S Brown, Jenny Harries, Matthew Hickman, Isabel Oliver
• Adoption of paediatric and neonatal pulse oximetry by 12 hospitals in Nigeria: a mixed-methods realist evaluation (26 June, 2018)

  Hamish R Graham, Ayobami A Bakare, Amy Gray, Adejumoke Idowu Ayede, Shamim Qazi, Barbara McPake, Rasa Izadnegahdar, Trevor Duke, Adegoke G Falade
• Risk factors and health consequences of physical and emotional violence against children in Zimbabwe: a nationally representative survey (26 June, 2018)

  Handrick Chigiji, Deborah Fry, Tinashe Enock Mwadiwa, Aldo Elizalde, Noriko Izumi, Line Baago-Rasmussen, Mary Catherine Maternowska
• Equity in access to non-communicable disease medicines: a cross-sectional study in Kenya (22 June, 2018)

  Peter C Rockers, Richard O Laing, Veronika J Wirtz
• Perioperative mortality rates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis (22 June, 2018)

  Joshua S Ng-Kamstra, Sumedha Arya, Sarah L M Greenberg, Meera Kotagal, Catherine Arsenault, David Ljungman, Rachel R Yorlets, Arnav Agarwal, Claudia Frankfurter, Anton Nikouline, Francis Yi Xing Lai, Charlotta L Palmqvist, Terence Fu, Tahrin Mahmood, Sneha Raju, Sristi Sharma, Isobel H Marks, Alexis Bowder, Lebei Pi, John G Meara, Mark G Shrime
• Is water carriage associated with the water carrier’s health? A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence (22 June, 2018)

  Jo-Anne Lee Geere, Moa Cortobius, Jonathan Harold Geere, Charlotte Christiane Hammer, Paul R Hunter
• Variation in cost and performance of routine immunisation service delivery in India (22 June, 2018)

  Susmita Chatterjee, Palash Das, Aditi Nigam, Arindam Nandi, Logan Brenzel, Arindam Ray, Pradeep Haldar, Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal, Ramanan Laxminarayan
• Predicted distribution and burden of podoconiosis in Cameroon (22 June, 2018)

  Kebede Deribe, Jorge Cano, Abdel Jelil Njouendou, Mathias Esum Eyong, Amuam Andrew Beng, Emanuele Giorgi, David M Pigott, Rachel L Pullan, Abdisalan M Noor, Fikre Enquselassie, Christopher J L Murray, Simon I Hay, Melanie J Newport, Gail Davey, Samuel Wanji
• The making of evidence-informed health policy in Cambodia: knowledge, institutions and processes (22 June, 2018)

  Marco Liverani, Kannarath Chheng, Justin Parkhurst
• Pharmaceutical quality assurance of local private distributors: a secondary analysis in 13 low-income and middle-income countries (9 June, 2018)

  Kerlijn Van Assche, Ariadna Nebot Giralt, Jean Michel Caudron, Benedetta Schiavetti, Corinne Pouget, Achilleas Tsoumanis, Bruno Meessen, Raffaella Ravinetto
• Research: Early changes in intervention coverage and mortality rates following the implementation of an integrated health system intervention in Madagascar (4 June, 2018)

  Andres Garchitorena, Ann C Miller, Laura F Cordier, Victor R Rabeza, Marius Randriamanambintsoa, Hery-Tiana R Razanadrakato, Lara Hall, Djordje Gikic, Justin Haruna, Meg McCarty, Andriamihaja Randrianambinina, Dana R Thomson, Sidney Atwood, Michael L Rich, Megan B Murray, Josea Ratsirarson, Mohammed Ali Ouenzar, Matthew H Bonds
• Effects of a home-based participatory play intervention on infant and young child nutrition: a randomised evaluation among low-income households in El Alto, Bolivia (26 May, 2018)

  Sebastian Martinez, Julia Johannsen, Gaston Gertner, Jorge Franco, Ana B Perez Exposito, Rosario M Bartolini, Irma Condori, Jhovanna Flores Ayllón, Ramiro Llanque, Nohora Alvarado, Christian Lunstedt, Cecilia Ferrufino, Teresa Reinaga, Mauricio Chumacero, Carlos Foronda, Santiago Albarracin, Ana Maria Aguilar
• Appropriate and timely antibiotic administration for neonatal sepsis in Mesoamérica (24 May, 2018)

  Herbert C Duber, Emily A Hartford, Alexandra M Schaefer, Casey K Johanns, Danny V Colombara, Emma Iriarte, Erin B Palmisano, Diego Rios-Zertuche, Paola Zuniga-Brenes, Bernardo Hernández-Prado, Ali H Mokdad
• Accelerating Kenya’s progress to 2030: understanding the determinants of under-five mortality from 1990 to 2015 (24 May, 2018)

  Emily C Keats, William Macharia, Neha S Singh, Nadia Akseer, Nirmala Ravishankar, Anthony K Ngugi, Arjumand Rizvi, Emma Nelima Khaemba, John Tole, Zulfiqar A Bhutta
• Using a population-based survey approach to estimate child separation after a natural disaster: findings from post-Hurricane Haiti (17 May, 2018)

  Lindsay Stark, Matthew MacFarlane, Beth L Rubenstein, Gary Yu, Celina Jensen, Katharine Williamson
• Impact of the US Food and Drug Administration registration of antiretroviral drugs on global access to HIV treatment (17 May, 2018)

  Harinder Singh Chahal, Peter Capella, Ryan Presto, Jeffrey S Murray, Martin Shimer, Mary Lou Valdez, Peter G Lurie
• Potential impact of introducing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine into national immunisation programmes: an economic-epidemiological analysis using data from India (9 May, 2018)

  Itamar Megiddo, Eili Klein, Ramanan Laxminarayan
• What is the impact of water sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities on care seeking behaviour and patient satisfaction? A systematic review of the evidence from low-income and middle-income countries (9 May, 2018)

  Maha Bouzid, Oliver Cumming, Paul R Hunter
• Patterns of authorship on community health workers in low-and-middle-income countries: an analysis of publications (2012–2016) (9 May, 2018)

  Helen Schneider, Nelisiwe Maleka
• Impact of measles supplementary immunisation activities on utilisation of maternal and child health services in low-income and middle-income countries (7 May, 2018)

  Iryna Postolovska, Stéphane Helleringer, Margaret E Kruk, Stéphane Verguet
• Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises (3 May, 2018)

  Lisa-Marie Thomas, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Dina Balabanova
• Burden of physical, psychological and social ill-health during and after pregnancy among women in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Malawi (3 May, 2018)

  Mary McCauley, Barbara Madaj, Sarah A White, Fiona Dickinson, Sarah Bar-Zev, Mamuda Aminu, Pamela Godia, Pratima Mittal, Shamsa Zafar, Nynke van den Broek