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Research

• Estimating global trends in total and childhood antibiotic consumption, 2011-2015 (27 February, 2019)

  Charlotte Jackson, Yingfen Hsia, Julia A Bielicki, Sally Ellis, Peter Stephens, Ian C K Wong, Mike Sharland
• The costs of diabetes treatment in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review (27 February, 2019)

  Corrina Moucheraud, Cosima Lenz, Michaella Latkovic, Veronika J Wirtz
• Measuring primary healthcare expenditure in low-income and lower middle-income countries (21 February, 2019)

  Nathalie Vande Maele, Ke Xu, Agnes Soucat, Lisa Fleisher, Maria Aranguren, Hong Wang
• Technologies of trust in epidemic response: openness, reflexivity and accountability during the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa (13 February, 2019)

  Molly J Ryan, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Janice E Graham
• How socioeconomic status moderates the stunting-age relationship in low-income and middle-income countries (8 February, 2019)

  Christian Bommer, Sebastian Vollmer, S V Subramanian
• Is the current surge in political and financial attention to One Health solidifying or splintering the movement? (8 February, 2019)

  Julia Spencer, Ellen McRobie, Osman Dar, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Nadeem Hasan, Johanna Hanefeld, Mishal Khan
• The impact of universal home visits with pregnant women and their spouses on maternal outcomes: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Bauchi State, Nigeria (8 February, 2019)

  Anne Cockcroft, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Muhammad Chadi Baba, Amar Aziz, Umaira Ansari, Adamu Ibrahim Gamawa, Yahaya Yarima, Neil Andersson
• Displacement, deprivation and hard work among Syrian refugee children in Lebanon (4 February, 2019)

  Rima R Habib, Micheline Ziadee, Elio Abi Younes, Houda Harastani, Layal Hamdar, Mohammed Jawad, Khalil El Asmar
• Social return on investment of emergency obstetric care training in Kenya (29 January, 2019)

  Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Barbara Madaj, Nynke van den Broek
• Assessing global preparedness for the next pandemic: development and application of an Epidemic Preparedness Index (29 January, 2019)

  Ben Oppenheim, Mark Gallivan, Nita K Madhav, Naor Brown, Volodymyr Serhiyenko, Nathan D Wolfe, Patrick Ayscue
• Task shifting to improve the provision of integrated chronic care: realist evaluation of a lay health worker intervention in rural South Africa (29 January, 2019)

  Felix Limbani, Margaret Thorogood, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Jane Goudge
• Spatial and temporal projections of the prevalence of active tuberculosis in Cambodia (24 January, 2019)

  Kiesha Prem, Sok Heng Pheng, Alvin Kuo Jing Teo, Konstantin Evdokimov, Ei Ei Khaing Nang, Li Yang Hsu, Vonthanak Saphonn, Sivanna Tieng, Tan Eang Mao, Alex R Cook
• The impact of a cash transfer programme on tuberculosis treatment success rate: a quasi-experimental study in Brazil (24 January, 2019)

  Daniel J Carter, Rhian Daniel, Ana W Torrens, Mauro N Sanchez, Ethel Leonor N Maciel, Patricia Bartholomay, Draurio C Barreira, Davide Rasella, Mauricio L Barreto, Laura C Rodrigues, Delia Boccia
• Urban-rural differences in the association between blood lipids and characteristics of the built environment: a systematic review and meta-analysis (24 January, 2019)

  Rosa de Groot, Katja van den Hurk, Linda J Schoonmade, Wim L A M de Kort, Johannes Brug, Jeroen Lakerveld
• Trends and drivers of government health spending in sub-Saharan Africa, 1995–2015 (13 January, 2019)

  Angela E Micah, Catherine S Chen, Bianca S Zlavog, Golsum Hashimi, Abigail Chapin, Joseph L Dieleman
• Path analyses of risk factors for linear growth faltering in four prospective cohorts of young children in Ghana, Malawi and Burkina Faso (13 January, 2019)

  Elizabeth L Prado, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Stephen Vosti, Robert Stewart, Christine P Stewart, Jérôme Somé, Anna Pulakka, Jean Bosco Ouédraogo, Harriet Okronipa, Eugenia Ocansey, Brietta Oaks, Kenneth Maleta, Anna Lartey, Emma Kortekangas, Sonja Y Hess, Kenneth Brown, Jaden Bendabenda, Ulla Ashorn, Per Ashorn, Mary Arimond, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Souheila Abbeddou, Kathryn Dewey
• Lifetime economic impact of the burden of childhood stunting attributable to maternal psychosocial risk factors in 137 low/middle-income countries (10 January, 2019)

  Mary C Smith Fawzi, Kathryn G Andrews, Günther Fink, Goodarz Danaei, Dana Charles McCoy, Christopher R Sudfeld, Evan D Peet, Jeanne Cho, Yuanyuan Liu, Jocelyn E Finlay, Majid Ezzati, Sylvia F Kaaya, Wafaie W Fawzi
• Can child-focused sanitation and nutrition programming improve health practices and outcomes? Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Kitui County, Kenya (5 January, 2019)

  Gerishom Gimaiyo, Jeffery McManus, Matt Yarri, Shiva Singh, Andrew Trevett, Grainne Moloney, Ann Robins, Lilian Lehmann
• Association between education and major adverse cardiac events among patients with acute coronary syndrome in the Arabian Gulf (5 January, 2019)

  Ibrahim Al-Zakwani, Ruth M Mabry, Mohammad Zubaid, Alawi A Alsheikh-Ali, Wael Almahmeed, Abdullah Shehab, Wafa Rashed