Table of contents

Original research

• Unprecedented reduction in births of very low birthweight (VLBW) and extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland: a ‘natural experiment’ allowing analysis of data from the prior two decades (30 September, 2020)

  Roy K Philip, Helen Purtill, Elizabeth Reidy, Mandy Daly, Mendinaro Imcha, Deirdre McGrath, Nuala H O'Connell, Colum P Dunne
• The role of health system context in the design and implementation of performance-based financing: evidence from Cote d’Ivoire (30 September, 2020)

  Denizhan Duran, Sebastian Bauhoff, Peter Berman, Tania Gaudet, Clovis Konan, Emre Ozaltin, Margaret E Kruk
• Confronting power in low places: historical analysis of medical dominance and role-boundary negotiation between health professions in Nigeria (29 September, 2020)

  Okikiolu Badejo, Helen Sagay, Seye Abimbola, Sara Van Belle
• Impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and lifetime costs in the adult population of Ghana (29 September, 2020)

  Stella Lartey, Lei Si, Thomas Lung, Costan G Magnussen, Godfred O Boateng, Nadia Minicuci, Paul Kowal, Alison Hayes, Barbara de Graaff, Leigh Blizzard, Andrew J Palmer
• BCG skin reactions by 2 months of age are associated with better survival in infancy: a prospective observational study from Guinea-Bissau (25 September, 2020)

  Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, Mike Berendsen, Adam Roth, Kristoffer Jarlov Jensen, Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen, Marcus Kjær Sørensen, Ivan Monteiro, Peter Aaby, Christine Stabell Benn
• Effects of terrorist attacks on access to maternal healthcare services: a national longitudinal study in Burkina Faso (25 September, 2020)

  Thomas Druetz, Lalique Browne, Frank Bicaba, Matthew Ian Mitchell, Abel Bicaba
• Psychiatric care use among migrants to Sweden compared with Swedish-born residents: a longitudinal cohort study of 5 150 753 people (24 September, 2020)

  Anna-Clara Hollander, Euan Mackay, Hugo Sjöqvist, James B Kirkbride, Sofie Bäärnhielm, Christina Dalman
• Effect of home-based newborn care on neonatal and infant mortality: a cluster randomised trial in India (24 September, 2020)

  Reeta Rasaily, NC Saxena, Sushma Pandey, Bishan S Garg, Saraswati Swain, Sharad D Iyengar, Vinita Das, Sheela Sinha, Subodh Gupta, Anju Sinha, Shiv Kumar, Arvind Pandey, Ravindra Mohan Pandey, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Mari Jeeva Sankar, Siddarth Ramji, Vinod K Paul, Abhay T Bang
• How previous epidemics enable timelier COVID-19 responses: an empirical study using organisational memory theory (23 September, 2020)

  Sian Hsiang-Te Tsuei
• Health system determinants of access to essential medicines for children with cancer in Ghana (23 September, 2020)

  Rhonda Boateng, Lorna Renner, Kadia Petricca, Sumit Gupta, Avram Denburg
• The cost-effectiveness of using performance-based financing to deliver the basic package of health services in Afghanistan (21 September, 2020)

  Ahmad S Salehi, Josephine Borghi, Karl Blanchet, Anna Vassall
• Early estimates of COVID-19 infections in small, medium and large population clusters (18 September, 2020)

  Amir Siraj, Alemayehu Worku, Kiros Berhane, Maru Aregawi, Munir Eshetu, Alemnesh Mirkuzie, Yemane Berhane, Dawd Siraj
• Antibiotic overuse in the primary health care setting: a secondary data analysis of standardised patient studies from India, China and Kenya (15 September, 2020)

  Giorgia Sulis, Benjamin Daniels, Ada Kwan, Sumanth Gandra, Amrita Daftary, Jishnu Das, Madhukar Pai
• Allocating resources to support universal health coverage: development of a geographical funding formula in Malawi (15 September, 2020)

  Finn McGuire, Paul Revill, Pakwanja Twea, Sakshi Mohan, Gerald Manthalu, Peter C. Smith
• The impact of demonetisation on the utilisation of hospital services, patient outcomes and finances: a multicentre observational study from India (15 September, 2020)

  Tarun K George, John Victor Peter, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Bijesh Yadav, Shalom Patole, Roshine Mary Koshy, Prabhu Joseph, Balasubramanian P, Aravindan Nair, Anand Zachariah, Krupa George, Georgi Abraham, Balasubramanian Venkatesh
• Cost and cost drivers associated with setting-up a prime vendor system to complement the national medicines supply chain in Tanzania (14 September, 2020)

  August Kuwawenaruwa, Kaspar Wyss, Karin Wiedenmayer, Fabrizio Tediosi
• Systematic review of frameworks used to conceptualise health pathways of individuals diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases (14 September, 2020)

  Maureen L Seguin, Avanti Rangnekar, Alicia Renedo, Benjamin Palafox, Martin McKee, Dina Balabanova
• Does adherence to evidence-based practices during childbirth prevent perinatal mortality? A post-hoc analysis of 3,274 births in Uttar Pradesh, India (14 September, 2020)

  Katherine EA Semrau, Kate A Miller, Stuart Lipsitz, Jennifer Fisher-Bowman, Ami Karlage, Bridget A Neville, Margaret Krasne, Jonathon Gass, Amanda Jurczak, Vinay Pratap Singh, Shambhavi Singh, Megan Marx Delaney, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Bhalachandra Kodkany, Vishwajeet Kumar, Atul A Gawande
• Population impact and effectiveness of sequential 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate and monovalent rotavirus vaccine introduction on infant mortality: prospective birth cohort studies from Malawi (9 September, 2020)

  Carina King, Naor Bar-Zeev, Tambosi Phiri, James Beard, Hazzie Mvula, Amelia Crampin, Ellen Heinsbroek, Dan Hungerford, Sonia Lewycka, Jennifer Verani, Cynthia Whitney, Anthony Costello, Charles Mwansambo, Nigel Cunliffe, Rob Heyderman, Neil French
• Understanding why at-risk population segments do not seek care for tuberculosis: a precision public health approach in South India (9 September, 2020)

  Sarah Helfinstein, Elisabeth Engl, Beena E Thomas, Gayathri Natarajan, Prithivi Prakash, Mokshada Jain, Jayabal Lavanya, Murugesan Jagadeesan, Rebekah Chang, Tichakunda Mangono, Hannah Kemp, Shamim Mannan, Harkesh Dabas, Grace K Charles, Sema K Sgaier
• Barriers to maternal health services during the Ebola outbreak in three West African countries: a literature review (6 September, 2020)

  Piper Yerger, Mohamed Jalloh, Cordelia E M Coltart, Carina King
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of tranexamic acid for the treatment of traumatic brain injury, based on the results of the CRASH-3 randomised trial: a decision modelling approach (2 September, 2020)

  Jack Williams, Ian Roberts, Haleema Shakur-Still, Fiona E Lecky, Rizwana Chaudhri, Alec Miners
• The international and domestic politics of type 2 diabetes policy reform in Brazil (1 September, 2020)

  Eduardo J Gómez
• The cost-effectiveness of hypertension management in low-income and middle-income countries: a review (9 September, 2020)

  Deliana Kostova, Garrison Spencer, Andrew E Moran, Laura K Cobb, Muhammad Jami Husain, Biplab Kumar Datta, Kunihiro Matsushita, Rachel Nugent