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Research

• Comparison of different approaches to antibiotic restriction in food-producing animals: stratified results from a systematic review and meta-analysis (31 August, 2019)

  Karen L Tang, Niamh P Caffrey, Diego B Nóbrega, Susan C Cork, Paul E Ronksley, Herman W Barkema, Alicia J Polachek, Heather Ganshorn, Nishan Sharma, James D Kellner, Sylvia L Checkley, William A Ghali
• Effects of expanding a non-contributory health insurance scheme on out-of-pocket healthcare spending by the poor in Turkey (31 August, 2019)

  Abdullah Tirgil, William T Dickens, Rifat Atun
• Intestinal antibody responses to a live oral poliovirus vaccine challenge among adults previously immunized with inactivated polio vaccine in Sweden (28 August, 2019)

  Elizabeth B Brickley, Ruth I Connor, Wendy F Wieland-Alter, Marc S Collett, Marianne Hartford, Harrie Van Der Avoort, Austin W Boesch, Joshua A Weiner, Margaret E Ackerman, Mark A McKinlay, Minetaro Arita, Ananda S Bandyopadhyay, John F Modlin, Peter F Wright
• Measuring unmet need for contraception as a point prevalence (28 August, 2019)

  Caroline Moreau, Mridula Shankar, Stephane Helleringer, Stanley Becker
• Effects of team-based goals and non-monetary incentives on front-line health worker performance and maternal health behaviours: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Bihar, India (26 August, 2019)

  Suzan L Carmichael, Kala Mehta, Hina Raheel, Sridhar Srikantiah, Indrajit Chaudhuri, Shamik Trehan, Sunil Mohanty, Evan Borkum, Tanmay Mahapatra, Yingjie Weng, Rajani Kaimal, Anita Sivasankaran, Swetha Sridharan, Dana Rotz, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Yamini Atmavilas, Wolfgang Munar, Anu Rangarajan, Gary L Darmstadt
• Current realities versus theoretical optima: quantifying efficiency and sociospatial equity of travel time to hospitals in low-income and middle-income countries (21 August, 2019)

  Kerry LM Wong, Oliver J Brady, Oona Maeve Renee Campbell, Christopher I Jarvis, Andrea Pembe, Gabriela B Gomez, Lenka Benova
• Equitable coverage? The roles of the private and public sectors in providing maternal, newborn and child health interventions in South Asia (21 August, 2019)

  Sufang Guo, Liliana Carvajal-Aguirre, Cesar G Victora, Aluisio J D Barros, Fernando C Wehrmeister, Luis Paulo Vidaletti, Gagan Gupta, Md Ziaul Matin, Paul Rutter
• Coping with healthcare costs for chronic illness in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review (21 August, 2019)

  Adrianna Murphy, Catherine McGowan, Martin McKee, Marc Suhrcke, Kara Hanson
• The distributional impact of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages: findings from an extended cost-effectiveness analysis in South Africa (21 August, 2019)

  Akshar Saxena, Nicholas Stacey, Paula Del Ray Puech, Caroline Mudara, Karen Hofman, Stéphane Verguet
• The roles of community health workers who provide maternal and newborn health services: case studies from Africa and Asia (10 August, 2019)

  Abimbola Olaniran, Barbara Madaj, Sarah Bar-Zev, Nynke van den Broek
• Chronic multimorbidity among older adults in rural South Africa (5 August, 2019)

  Angela Y Chang, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Collin Payne, Julia K Rohr, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Alisha N Wade, Ryan G Wagner, Livia Montana, Stephen Tollman, Joshua A Salomon
• The impact of patient-held health records on continuity of care among asylum seekers in reception centres: a cluster-randomised stepped wedge trial in Germany (2 August, 2019)

  Cornelia Straßner, Stefan Noest, Stella Preussler, Rosa Jahn, Sandra Ziegler, Katharina Wahedi, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
• Time trends and sociodemographic determinants of preterm births in pregnancy cohorts in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1990–2014 (2 August, 2019)

  Anisur Rahman, Monjur Rahman, Jesmin Pervin, Abdur Razzaque, Shaki Aktar, Jamal Uddin Ahmed, Katarina Ekholm Selling, Pernilla Svefors, Shams El Arifeen, Lars Åke Persson
• Using mobile technologies to support the training of community health workers in low-income and middle-income countries: mapping the evidence (30 July, 2019)

  Niall Winters, Laurenz Langer, Promise Nduku, James Robson, James O'Donovan, Pallab Maulik, Chris Paton, Anne Geniets, David Peiris, Shobhana Nagraj
• The global pool of simulation exercise materials in health emergency preparedness and response: a scoping review with a health system perspective (29 July, 2019)

  Geraldine McDarby, Lindy Reynolds, Zandile Zibwowa, Shams Syed, Ed Kelley, Sohel Saikat
• False-negative malaria rapid diagnostic test results and their impact on community-based malaria surveys in sub-Saharan Africa (29 July, 2019)

  Oliver J Watson, Kelsey Marie Sumner, Mark Janko, Varun Goel, Peter Winskill, Hannah C Slater, Azra Ghani, Steven R Meshnick, Jonathan B Parr
• Effectiveness of intermittent screening and treatment for the control of malaria in pregnancy: a cluster randomised trial in India (29 July, 2019)

  Irene Kuepfer, Neelima Mishra, Jane Bruce, Vinit Mishra, Anupkumar R Anvikar, Sanghamitra Satpathi, Prativa Behera, Atis Muehlenbachs, Jayne Webster, Feiko terKuile, Brian Greenwood, Neena Valecha, Daniel Chandramohan
• Epidemiological transition in morbidity: 10-year data from emergency consultations in Dakar, Senegal (19 July, 2019)

  Bamba Gaye, Massamba Diop, Kumar Narayanan, Lucile Offredo, Peter Reese, Marie Antignac, Vasenta Diop, Ahmadoul Badaviyou Mbacké, Louise Boyer Chatenet, Eloi Marijon, Archana Singh-Manoux, Ibrahima Bara Diop, Xavier Jouven
• ”For this one, let me take the risk”: why surgical staff continued to perform caesarean sections during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone (19 July, 2019)

  Gustaf Drevin, Helle Mölsted Alvesson, Alex van Duinen, Håkon A Bolkan, Alimamy P Koroma, Johan Von Schreeb
• Are community health workers effective in retaining women in the maternity care continuum? Evidence from India (18 July, 2019)

  Smisha Agarwal, Sian Curtis, Gusavo Angeles, Ilene Speizer, Kavita Singh, James Thomas
• Supportive supervision to improve the quality and outcome of outpatient care among malnourished children: a cluster randomised trial in Arua district, Uganda (18 July, 2019)

  Marzia Lazzerini, Humphrey Wanzira, Peter Lochoro, Richard Muyinda, Giulia Segafredo, Henry Wamani, Giovanni Putoto
• Is female genital mutilation/cutting associated with adverse mental health consequences? A systematic review of the evidence (15 July, 2019)

  Salma M Abdalla, Sandro Galea
• Responding to epidemics in large-scale humanitarian crises: a case study of the cholera response in Yemen, 2016–2018 (15 July, 2019)

  Paul Spiegel, Ruwan Ratnayake, Nora Hellman, Mija Ververs, Moise Ngwa, Paul H Wise, Daniele Lantagne
• Understanding the determinants of infant and under-five mortality rates: a multivariate decomposition analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys in Ghana, 2003, 2008 and 2014 (9 July, 2019)

  Duah Dwomoh, Susan Amuasi, Kofi Agyabeng, Gabriel Incoom, Yakubu Alhassan, Alfred Edwin Yawson
• Interventions to improve water supply and quality, sanitation and handwashing facilities in healthcare facilities, and their effect on healthcare-associated infections in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and supplementary scoping review (8 July, 2019)

  Julie Watson, Lauren D'Mello-Guyett, Erin Flynn, Jane Falconer, Joanna Esteves-Mills, Alain Prual, Paul Hunter, Benedetta Allegranzi, Maggie Montgomery, Oliver Cumming
• Is quality affordable for community health systems? Costs of integrating quality improvement into close-to-community health programmes in five low-income and middle-income countries (8 July, 2019)

  Meghan Bruce Kumar, Jason J Madan, Maryline Mireku Achieng, Ralalicia Limato, Sozinho Ndima, Aschenaki Z Kea, Kingsley Rex Chikaphupha, Edwine Barasa, Miriam Taegtmeyer
• The global scale and implications of delivering multiple interventions through integrated child health events (8 July, 2019)

  Mahoko Kamatsuchi, Adrian Gheorghe, Dina Balabanova
• Use of routinely collected electronic healthcare data for postlicensure vaccine safety signal detection: a systematic review (8 July, 2019)

  Yonatan Moges Mesfin, Allen Cheng, Jock Lawrie, Jim Buttery
• Who are the real community health workers in Tshopo Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo? (3 July, 2019)

  Sarah L Dalglish, Sarah Straubinger, Justine A Kavle, Lacey Gibson, Evariste Mbombeshayi, Jimmy Anzolo, Kerry Scott, Michel Pacqué