Table of contents

Original research

• Spatial patterns and inequalities in skilled birth attendance and caesarean delivery in sub-Saharan Africa (29 October, 2021)

  Firew Tekle Bobo, Augustine Asante, Mirkuzie Woldie, Angela Dawson, Andrew Hayen
• ‘Staying alive’ with antiretroviral therapy: a grounded theory study of people living with HIV in Peru (28 October, 2021)

  Juan Manuel Leyva-Moral, Patrick Albert Palmieri, Blanca Katiuzca Loayza-Enriquez, Kara Lynette Vander Linden, Ursula Elisa Elias-Bravo, Genesis Masiel Guevara-Vasquez, Lucy Yonmey Davila-Olano, Mariela Patricia Aguayo-Gonzalez
• Where there is no local author: a network bibliometric analysis of authorship parasitism among research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa (27 October, 2021)

  Chris A Rees, Mohsin Ali, Rodrick Kisenge, Readon C Ideh, Stephanie J Sirna, Carl D Britto, Peter N Kazembe, Michelle Niescierenko, Christopher P Duggan, Karim P Manji
• Equity of geographical access to public health facilities in Nepal (27 October, 2021)

  Wen-Rui Cao, Prabin Shakya, Biraj Karmacharya, Dong Roman Xu, Yuan-Tao Hao, Ying-Si Lai
• Incorporating future unrelated medical costs in cost-effectiveness analysis in China (26 October, 2021)

  Shan Jiang, Yitong Wang, Junwen Zhou, Yawen Jiang, Gordon G Liu, Jing Wu
• Modelling the effect of infection prevention and control measures on rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission to clinic attendees in primary health clinics in South Africa

  (25 October, 2021)

  Nicky McCreesh, Aaron S Karat, Kathy Baisley, Karin Diaconu, Fiammetta Bozzani, Indira Govender, Peter Beckwith, Tom A Yates, Arminder K Deol, Rein M G J Houben, Karina Kielmann, Richard G White, Alison D Grant
• Access to paediatric surgery: the geography of inequality in Nigeria (25 October, 2021)

  Mohamed Abd salam El Vilaly, Maureen A Jones, Makela Cordero Stankey, Justina Seyi-Olajide, Bisola Onajin-Obembe, Andat Dasogot, Stefanie J Klug, John G Meara, Emmanuel A Ameh, Olabisi O Osagie, Sabrina Juran
• Systematic analysis of authorship demographics in global surgery (19 October, 2021)

  Krithi Ravi, Zineb Bentounsi, Aiman Tariq, Aurelia Brazeal, Davina Daudu, Francesca Back, Muhammed Elhadi, Nermin Badwi, Sayed Shah Nur Hussein Shah, Soham Bandyopadhyay, Halimah Khalil, Hitomi Kimura, Mama Ntiriwa Sekyi-Djan, Ahmed Abdelrahman, Ahmed Shaheen, Aime Gilbert Mbonda Noula, Ai-Ting Wong, Aliyu Ndajiwo, Amine Souadka, Ann Nyandia Maina, Arsene Daniel Nyalundja, Aya Sabry, Bourja Hind, Daniel Safari Nteranya, Dorcas Wambui Ngugi, Elsa de Wet, Engy Amgad Tolis, F Z Wafqui, Hajar Essangri, Hajar Moujtahid, Husna Moola, Kapil Narain, Krupa Ravi, Kyrillos Wassim, Lucianne A Odiero, Lucina Stephanie Nyaboke, Maram Metwalli, Maryanne Naisiae, Miriam Gerd Pueschel, Nafisa Turabi, Nouhaila El Aroussi, Omar Mohamed Makram, Omar A Shawky, Oumaima Outani, Peter Carides, Poorvaprabha Patil, Richard P Halley-Stott, Sabina Kurbegovic, Samantha Marchant, Sara Moujtahid, Soukaina El Hadrati, Tanishq Agarwal, Valerie Atonya Kidavasi, Vrinda Agarwal, Wilme Steyn, Winnie Matumo, Youssef Ahmed Fahmy, Zaayid Omar, Zachary Amod, Madelein Eloff, Nafisa Agil Hussein, Dhananjaya Sharma
• Vaccine nationalism and internationalism: perspectives of COVID-19 vaccine trial participants in the United Kingdom (18 October, 2021)

  Samantha Vanderslott, Katherine Emary, Rebecca te Water Naude, Marcus English, Tonia Thomas, Maia Patrick-Smith, John Henry, Naomi Douglas, Maria Moore, Arabella Stuart, Susanne H Hodgson, Andrew J Pollard
• How can we better integrate the prevention, treatment, control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases with other health interventions? A systematic review (18 October, 2021)

  Gift Treighcy Banda, Kebede Deribe, Gail Davey
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital utilisation in Sierra Leone (11 October, 2021)

  Stephen Sevalie, Daniel Youkee, A J van Duinen, Emma Bailey, Thaimu Bangura, Sowmya Mangipudi, Esther Mansaray, Maria Lisa Odland, Divya Parmar, Sorie Samura, Diede van Delft, Haja Wurie, Justine I Davies, H A Bolkan, Andrew J M Leather
• The influence of the urban food environment on diet, nutrition and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review (11 October, 2021)

  Susannah Westbury, Iman Ghosh, Helen Margaret Jones, Daniel Mensah, Folake Samuel, Ana Irache, Nida Azhar, Lena Al-Khudairy, Romaina Iqbal, Oyinlola Oyebode
• ‘Pneumonia has gone’: exploring perceptions of health in a cookstove intervention trial in rural Malawi (11 October, 2021)

  Jane Ardrey, Kate Jehan, Caroline Kumbuyo, Chifundo Ndamala, Kevin Mortimer, Rachel Tolhurst
• Are there sex differences in completeness of death registration and quality of cause of death statistics? Results from a global analysis (8 October, 2021)

  Tim Adair, U S H Gamage, Lene Mikkelsen, Rohina Joshi
• Participant and narrative characteristics associated with host community members sharing experiences of peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (8 October, 2021)

  Susan Andrea Bartels, Sandrine Lusamba, Sabine Lee
• Community-level impacts of sanitation coverage on maternal and neonatal health: a retrospective cohort of survey data (8 October, 2021)

  Brittany L Kmush, Bhavneet Walia, Anushruta Neupane, Carolina Frances, Idris Ahmed Mohamed, Mahwish Iqbal, David A Larsen
• Pregnancy-related healthcare utilisation in Agincourt, South Africa, 1993–2018: a longitudinal surveillance study of rural mothers (7 October, 2021)

  Daniel E Sack, Ryan G Wagner, Daniel Ohene-Kwofie, Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula, Jessica Price, Carren Ginsburg, Carolyn M Audet
• Predicting the impact of control strategies on the tuberculosis burden in South and North Korea using a mathematical model (7 October, 2021)

  Hyunwoo Cho, Youngmok Park, Jeongjoo Seok, Joon Sup Yeom, Jun Yong Choi, Hee Jin Kim, Young Ae Kang, Jeehyun Lee
• Gender, mental health and resilience in armed conflict: listening to life stories of internally displaced women in Colombia (7 October, 2021)

  Emilia Zamora-Moncayo, Rochelle A. Burgess, Laura Fonseca, Mónica González-Gort, Ritsuko Kakuma
• Influence of travel time and distance to the hospital of care on stillbirths: a retrospective facility-based cross-sectional study in Lagos, Nigeria (6 October, 2021)

  Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Cephas Ke-on Avoka, Uchenna Gwacham-Anisiobi, Lenka Benova
• Pursuing health systems strengthening through disease-specific programme grants: experiences in Tanzania and Sierra Leone (6 October, 2021)

  Charlotte Devon Hemingway, Mohamed Bella Jalloh, Richard Silumbe, Haja Wurie, Esther Mtumbuka, Samuel Nhiga, Abdallah Lusasi, Justin Pulford
• Standardised patient study to assess tuberculosis case detection within the private pharmacy sector in Vietnam (6 October, 2021)

  Shukry Zawahir, Hien Le, Thu Anh Nguyen, Justin Beardsley, Anh Dang Duc, Sarah Bernays, Kerri Viney, Thai Cao Hung, Shannon McKinn, Hoang Huy Tran, Son Nguyen Tu, Kavindhran Velen, Tan Luong Minh, Hung Tran Thi Mai, Nhung Nguyen Viet, Ha Nguyen Viet, Van Nguyen Thi Cam, Thanh Nguyen Trung, Stephen Jan, Ben J Marais, Joel Negin, Guy B Marks, Gregory Fox
• Measuring facility readiness to provide childbirth care: a comparison of indices using data from a health facility survey in Ethiopia (5 October, 2021)

  Elizabeth K Stierman, Saifuddin Ahmed, Solomon Shiferaw, Linnea A Zimmerman, Andreea A Creanga
• The Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE) Scale: reliability, equivalence and validity of an individual-level measure of water security (6 October, 2021)

  Sera L Young, Hilary J Bethancourt, Zacchary R Ritter, Edward A Frongillo
• Engaging with the private healthcare sector for the control of tuberculosis in India: cost and cost-effectiveness (5 October, 2021)

  Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Arindam Nandi, Shibu Vijayan, Nita Jha, Sreenivas A Nair, Sameer Kumta, Puneet Dewan, Kiran Rade, Bhavin Vadera, Raghuram Rao, Kuldeep S Sachdeva
• Assessing the quality of care for children attending health facilities: a systematic review of assessment tools (4 October, 2021)

  Alicia Quach, Shidan Tosif, Herfina Nababan, Trevor Duke, Stephen M Graham, Wilson M Were, Moise Muzigaba, Fiona M Russell
• Overview of attacks against civilian infrastructure during the Syrian civil war, 2012–2018 (1 October, 2021)

  Evan Muzzall, Brian Perlman, Leonard S Rubenstein, Rohini J Haar
• Economic impacts of overweight and obesity: current and future estimates for eight countries (4 November, 2021)

  Adeyemi Okunogbe, Rachel Nugent, Garrison Spencer, Johanna Ralston, John Wilding