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Research

• Cancer diagnosis and care among rural-to-urban migrants in China (18 December, 2019)

  Rebecca Myerson, Tianyi Lu, Yong Yuan, Gordon Guo-En Liu
• The impact of a nurse mentoring program on the quality of labour and delivery care at primary health care facilities in Bihar, India (18 December, 2019)

  Saifuddin Ahmed, Swati Srivastava, Nicole Warren, Kaveri Mayra, Madhavi Misra, Tanmay Mahapatra, K D Rao
• The supervisory relationships of community health workers in primary health care: social network analysis of ward-based outreach teams in Ngaka Modiri Molema District, South Africa (17 December, 2019)

  Tumelo Assegaai, Helen Schneider
• Are inequities decreasing? Birth registration for children under five in low-income and middle-income countries, 1999–2016 (16 December, 2019)

  Amiya Bhatia, Nancy Krieger, Jason Beckfield, Aluisio J D Barros, Cesar Victora
• Effects of PACK guide training on the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by primary care clinicians: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial in Florianópolis, Brazil (16 December, 2019)

  Max Oscar Bachmann, Eric D Bateman, Rafael Stelmach, Alvaro A Cruz, Matheus Pacheco de Andrade, Ronaldo Zonta, Jorge Zepeda, Sonia Natal, Ruth Vania Cornick, Camilla Wattrus, Lauren Anderson, Daniella Georgeu-Pepper, Carl Lombard, Lara R Fairall
• ‘Never let a crisis go to waste’: post-Ebola agenda-setting for health system strengthening in Guinea (15 December, 2019)

  Delphin Kolie, Alexandre Delamou, Remco van de Pas, Nafissatou Dioubate, Patrice Bouedouno, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Abdoulaye Kaba, Abdoulaye Misside Diallo, Willem Van De Put, Wim Van Damme
• Proactive case detection of common childhood illnesses by community health workers: a systematic review (15 December, 2019)

  Caroline Whidden, Julie Thwing, Julie Gutman, Ethan Wohl, Clémence Leyrat, Kassoum Kayentao, Ari David Johnson, Brian Greenwood, Daniel Chandramohan
• The burden of misclassification of antepartum stillbirth in Nepal (11 December, 2019)

  Rejina Gurung, Helena Litorp, Sara Berkelhamer, Hong Zhou, Bhim Singh Tinkari, Prajwal Paudel, Honey Malla, Srijana Sharma, Ashish KC
• Event-based surveillance at health facility and community level in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review (10 December, 2019)

  Anna Kuehne, Patrick Keating, Jonathan Polonsky, Christopher Haskew, Karl Schenkel, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Ruwan Ratnayake
• How delayed and non-adherent treatment contribute to onward transmission of malaria: a modelling study (10 December, 2019)

  Joseph D Challenger, Bronner P Gonçalves, John Bradley, Katia Bruxvoort, Alfred B Tiono, Chris Drakeley, Teun Bousema, Azra C Ghani, Lucy C Okell
• The mixed effects of a package of multilevel interventions on the health and care of pregnant women in Zinder, Niger (10 December, 2019)

  Cesaire T Ouedraogo, K Ryan Wessells, Rebecca R Young, Ibrahim Foungotin Bamba, M Thierno Faye, Ndiaye Banda, Sonja Y Hess
• Promoting women’s and children’s health through community groups in low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review of mechanisms, enablers and barriers (5 December, 2019)

  Lu Gram, Adam Fitchett, Asma Ashraf, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin
• Sustainable development for global mental health: a typology and systematic evidence mapping of external actors in low-income and middle-income countries (3 December, 2019)

  Valentina Iemmi
• Has Gavi lived up to its promise? Quasi-experimental evidence on country immunisation rates and child mortality (3 December, 2019)

  Pascal Jaupart, Lizzie Dipple, Stefan Dercon
• Effective coverage and budget implications of skill-mix change to improve neonatal nursing care: an explorative simulation study in Kenya (2 December, 2019)

  Apostolos Tsiachristas, David Gathara, Jalemba Aluvaala, Timothy Chege, Edwine Barasa, Mike English
• The costs of developing, deploying and maintaining electronic immunisation registries in Tanzania and Zambia (25 November, 2019)

  Mercy Mvundura, Laura Di Giorgio, Dafrossa Lymo, Francis Dien Mwansa, Bulula Ngwegwe, Laurie Werner
• Effects of appointment scheduling on waiting time and utilisation of antenatal care in Mozambique (25 November, 2019)

  Maria Steenland, Janeth Dula, Amanda de Albuquerque, Quinhas Fernandes, Rosa Marlene Cuco, Sergio Chicumbe, Eduardo Samo Gudo, Sandra Sequeira, Margaret McConnell
• The catastrophic and impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments in Kenya, 2018 (24 November, 2019)

  Paola Salari, Laura Di Giorgio, Stefania Ilinca, Jane Chuma
• The D-score: a metric for interpreting the early development of infants and toddlers across global settings (19 November, 2019)

  Ann M Weber, Marta Rubio-Codina, Susan P Walker, Stef van Buuren, Iris Eekhout, Sally M Grantham-McGregor, Maria Caridad Araujo, Susan M Chang, Lia CH Fernald, Jena Derakhshani Hamadani, Charlotte Hanlon, Simone M Karam, Betsy Lozoff, Lisy Ratsifandrihamanana, Linda Richter, Maureen M Black
• The care and transport of trauma victims by layperson emergency medical systems: a qualitative study in Delhi, India (19 November, 2019)

  Kavi Bhalla, Veena Sriram, Radhika Arora, Richa Ahuja, Mathew Varghese, Girish Agrawal, Geetam Tiwari, Dinesh Mohan
• The patient safety practices of emergency medical teams in disaster zones: a systematic analysis (14 November, 2019)

  Ussamah El-khani, Hutan Ashrafian, Shahnawaz Rasheed, Harald Veen, Ammar Darwish, David Nott, Ara Darzi
• BCG vaccination is associated with reduced malaria prevalence in children under the age of 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa (14 November, 2019)

  Mike LT Berendsen, Sjors WL van Gijzel, Jeroen Smits, Quirijn de Mast, Peter Aaby, Christine S Benn, Mihai G Netea, Andre JAM van der Ven
• The missing voices of Indigenous Australians in the social, cultural and historical experiences of tuberculosis: a systematic and integrative review (14 November, 2019)

  Sue Devlin, David MacLaren, Peter D Massey, Richard Widders, Jenni A Judd
• Protecting the poor? Impact of the national health equity fund on utilization of government health services in Cambodia, 2006-2013 (13 November, 2019)

  Peter Leslie Annear, John Tayu Lee, Keovathanak Khim, Por Ir, Ellen Moscoe, Tapley Jordanwood, Thomas Bossert, Matthias Nachtnebel, Veasnakiry Lo
• Inequities in the global representation of sites participating in large, multicentre dialysis trials: a systematic review (12 November, 2019)

  Brendan Smyth, Konlawij Trongtrakul, Anna Haber, B Talbot, Carmel Hawley, Vlado Perkovic, Mark Woodward, Meg Jardine
• Interventions to support family caregivers of people living with dementia in high, middle and low-income countries in Asia: a scoping review (12 November, 2019)

  Ladson Hinton, Duyen Tran, Thuc-Nhi Nguyen, Janis Ho, Laura Gitlin
• The effect of old-age pensions on health care utilization patterns and insurance uptake in Mexico (12 November, 2019)

  Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Emma Aguila
• The burden of anaemia among displaced women and children in refugee settings worldwide, 2013–2016 (11 November, 2019)

  Ariel Kay, Eva Leidman, Velma Lopez, Caroline Wilkinson, Melody Tondeur, Oleg Bilukha
• Optimising systemic insecticide use to improve malaria control (11 November, 2019)

  Hannah R Meredith, Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Laith Yakob
• ‘It was a ravage!’: lived experiences of epidemic cholera in rural Haiti (10 November, 2019)

  Yodeline Guillaume, Max Raymond, Gregory J Jerome, Ralph Ternier, Louise C Ivers
• Effects of emergency obstetric care training on maternal and perinatal outcomes: a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial in South Africa (10 November, 2019)

  Nynke van den Broek, Charles Ameh, Barbara Madaj, Jennifer Makin, Sarah White, Karla Hemming, J Moodley, Robert Pattinson
• The Stunting Tool for Early Prevention: development and external validation of a novel tool to predict risk of stunting in children at 3 years of age (7 November, 2019)

  Sarah Hanieh, Sabine Braat, Julie A Simpson, Tran Thi Thu Ha, Thach D Tran, Tran Tuan, Jane Fisher, Beverley-Ann Biggs
• Exercise-based rehabilitation for major non-communicable diseases in low-resource settings: a scoping review (7 November, 2019)

  Martin Heine, Alison Lupton-Smith, Maureen Pakosh, Sherry L Grace, Wayne Derman, Susan D Hanekom
• Addressing inequalities in medical workforce distribution: evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Brazil (6 November, 2019)

  Elisa Maria Maffioli, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Gabriel Vivas, Carlos Rosales, Catherine Staton, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci
• Effectiveness of a multilevel intervention to reduce violence and increase condom use in intimate partnerships among female sex workers: cluster randomised controlled trial in Karnataka, India (6 November, 2019)

  Prakash Javalkar, Lucy Platt, Ravi Prakash, Tara S Beattie, Martine Collumbien, Mitzy Gafos, Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Calum Davey, Rachel Jewkes, Charlotte Watts, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Raghavendra Thalinja, Kavitha DL, Shajy Isac, Lori Heise
• Geospatial assessment of the voluntary medical male circumcision programme in Tanzania, 2011–2016 (5 November, 2019)

  Hana Kim, Adam Branscum, F DeWolfe Miller, Diego F Cuadros
• Over-the-counter antibiotic dispensing by pharmacies: a standardised patient study in Udupi district, India (1 November, 2019)

  Vaidehi Nafade, Sophie Huddart, Giorgia Sulis, Amrita Daftary, Sonal Sekhar Miraj, Kavitha Saravu, Madhukar Pai
• Measuring progress towards universal health coverage: national and subnational analysis in Ethiopia (1 November, 2019)

  Getachew Teshome Eregata, Alemayehu Hailu, Solomon Tessema Memirie, Ole Frithjof Norheim