Table of contents

Original research

• The impact of childhood malnutrition on mortality from pneumonia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis (30 November, 2021)

  Amir Kirolos, Rachel M Blacow, Arun Parajuli, Nicky J Welton, Alisha Khanna, Stephen J Allen, David A McAllister, Harry Campbell, Harish Nair
• Growth patterns by sex and age among under-5 children from 87 low-income and middle-income countries (30 November, 2021)

  Janaína Calu Costa, Cauane Blumenberg, Cesar Victora
• Regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease in Canada during 2005–2016: evidence from repeated nationwide cross-sectional surveys (30 November, 2021)

  Haijiang Dai, Biao Tang, Arwa Younis, Jude Dzevela Kong, Wen Zhong, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
• Association between ambulance prehospital time and maternal and perinatal outcomes in Sierra Leone: a countrywide study (29 November, 2021)

  Marta Caviglia, Giovanni Putoto, Andrea Conti, Francesca Tognon, Amara Jambai, Matthew Jusu Vandy, Daniel Youkee, Riccardo Buson, Sara Pini, Paolo Rosi, Ives Hubloue, Francesco Della Corte, Luca Ragazzoni, Francesco Barone-Adesi
• Inequity of healthcare access and use and catastrophic health spending in slum communities: a retrospective, cross-sectional survey in four countries (29 November, 2021)

  The Improving Health in Slums Collaborative
• Global, regional and national burden of bladder cancer and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019 (29 November, 2021)

  Saeid Safiri, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Mohsen Naghavi
• Antibiotic stories: a mixed-methods, multi-country analysis of household antibiotic use in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe (26 November, 2021)

  Justin Dixon, Eleanor Elizabeth MacPherson, Susan Nayiga, Salome Manyau, Christine Nabirye, Miriam Kayendeke, Esnart Sanudi, Alex Nkaombe, Portia Mareke, Kenny Sitole, Coll de Lima Hutchison, John Bradley, Shunmay Yeung, Rashida Abbas Ferrand, Sham Lal, Chrissy Roberts, Edward Green, Laurie Denyer Willis, Sarah G Staedke, Clare I R Chandler
• Subnational mortality estimates for India in 2019: a baseline for evaluating excess deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic (25 November, 2021)

  Chalapati Rao, Amrit Jose John, Ajit Kumar Yadav, Mansha Siraj
• Patient and public engagement in decision-making regarding infectious disease outbreak management: an integrative review (25 November, 2021)

  Sophie Kemper, MEJ Bongers, ENE Slok, LJ Schoonmade, JFH Kupper, A Timen
• The impact of pulse oximetry on diagnosis, management and outcomes of acute febrile illness in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review (25 November, 2021)

  Rusheng Chew, Meiwen Zhang, Arjun Chandna, Yoel Lubell
• COVID-19 mortality in women and men in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study (23 November, 2021)

  Jyoti Dalal, Isotta Triulzi, Ananthu James, Benedict Nguimbis, Gabriela Guizzo Dri, Akarsh Venkatasubramanian, Lucie Noubi Tchoupopnou Royd, Sara Botero Mesa, Claire Somerville, Giuseppe Turchetti, Beat Stoll, Jessica Lee Abbate, Franck Mboussou, Benido Impouma, Olivia Keiser, Flávio Codeço Coelho
• Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial (23 November, 2021)

  Jane E Yang, Diego Lassala, Jenny X Liu, Caroline Whidden, Isaac Holeman, Youssouf Keita, Yasamba Djiguiba, Sory Ibrahima N’Diaye, Fatou Fall, Kassoum Kayentao, Ari D Johnson
• Epidemiological comparison of the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, February 2020–April 2021 (18 November, 2021)

  Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Kelly Osezele Elimian, Ehimario Igumbor, Lauryn Dunkwu, Chijioke Kaduru, Olubunmi Omowunmi Olopha, Dabri Olohije Ohanu, Lilian Nwozor, Emmanuel Agogo, Olusola Aruna, Muhammad Shakir Balogun, Olaolu Aderinola, Anthony Ahumibe, Chinedu Arinze, Sikiru Olanrewaju Badaru, William Nwachukwu, Augustine Olajide Dada, Cyril Erameh, Khadeejah Hamza, Tarik Benjamin Mohammed, Nnaemeka Ndodo, Celestina Obiekea, Chinenye Ofoegbunam, Oladipo Ogunbode, Cornelius Ohonsi, Ekaete Alice Tobin, Rimamdeyati Yashe, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Michael C. Asuzu, Rosemary Ajuma Audu, Muhammad Bashir Bello, Shaibu Oricha Bello, Yusuf Yahaya Deeni, Yahya Disu, Gbenga Joseph, Chidiebere Ezeokafor, Zaiyad Garba Habib, Christian Ibeh, Ifeanyi Franklin Ike, Emem Iwara, Rejoice Kudirat Luka-Lawal, Geoffrey Namara, Tochi Okwor, Lois Olajide, Oluwafunke Olufemi Ilesanmi, Solomon Omonigho, Ferdinand Oyiri, Koubagnine Takpa, Nkem Usha Ugbogulu, Priscilla Ibekwe, John Oladejo, Elsie Ilori, Chinwe Lucia Ochu, Chikwe Ihekweazu
• ‘You just prefer to die early!’: how socioecological context impedes treatment for people living with HIV in Iran (18 November, 2021)

  Vira Ameli, Leila Taj, Jane Barlow, Lora Sabin, Franziska Meinck, Jessica Haberer, Minoo Mohraz
• Availability of population-level data sources for tracking the incidence of deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes in low-income and middle-income countries (15 November, 2021)

  Sudeshna Mitra, Kazuyuki Neki, Leah Watetu Mbugua, Hialy Gutierrez, Leen Bakdash, Mercer Winer, Ramshankar Balasubramaniyan, Jaeda Roberts, Theo Vos, Erin Hamilton, Mohsen Naghavi, James E Harrison, R F Soames Job, Kavi Bhalla
• Assessing the impact of polio supplementary immunisation activities on routine immunisation and health systems: a systematic review (14 November, 2021)

  Amy Vassallo, Kimberly Dunbar, Busayo Ajuwon, Christopher Lowbridge, Martyn Kirk, Catherine King, Meru Sheel
• The influence of gender and ethnicity on facemasks and respiratory protective equipment fit: a systematic review and meta-analysis (11 November, 2021)

  Jagrati Chopra, Nkemjika Abiakam, Hansung Kim, Cheryl Metcalf, Peter Worsley, Ying Cheong
• ‘You want to deal with power while riding on power’: global perspectives on power in participatory health research and co-production approaches (11 November, 2021)

  Beatrice R Egid, María Roura, Bachera Aktar, Jessica Amegee Quach, Ivy Chumo, Sónia Dias, Guillermo Hegel, Laundette Jones, Robinson Karuga, Luret Lar, Yaimie López, Apurvakumar Pandya, Theresa C Norton, Payam Sheikhattari, Tara Tancred, Nina Wallerstein, Emily Zimmerman, Kim Ozano
• SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey (11 November, 2021)

  Mohamed Bailor Barrie, Sulaiman Lakoh, J Daniel Kelly, Joseph Sam Kanu, James Sylvester Squire, Zikan Koroma, Silleh Bah, Osman Sankoh, Abdulai Brima, Rashid Ansumana, Sarah A Goldberg, Smit Chitre, Chidinma Osuagwu, Raphael Frankfurter, Justin Maeda, Bernard Barekye, Tamuno-Wari Numbere, Mohammed Abdulaziz, Anthony Mounts, Curtis Blanton, Tushar Singh, Mohamed Samai, Mohamed Vandi, Eugene T Richardson
• Potential impact of 5 years of ivermectin mass drug administration on malaria outcomes in high burden countries (11 November, 2021)

  Achla Marathe, Ruoding Shi, Ana Mendez-Lopez, Zhihao Hu, Bryan Lewis, Regina Rabinovich, Carlos J Chaccour, Cassidy Rist
• Debunking highly prevalent health misinformation using audio dramas delivered by WhatsApp: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Sierra Leone (10 November, 2021)

  Maike Winters, Ben Oppenheim, Paul Sengeh, Mohammad B Jalloh, Nance Webber, Samuel Abu Pratt, Bailah Leigh, Helle Molsted-Alvesson, Zangin Zeebari, Carl Johan Sundberg, Mohamed F Jalloh, Helena Nordenstedt
• Ethnic minority status as social determinant for COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, severity, ICU admission and deaths in the early phase of the pandemic: a meta-analysis (5 November, 2021)

  Charles Agyemang, Anke Richters, Shahab Jolani, Stevie Hendriks, Saurabh Zalpuri, Evan Yu, Bart Pijls, Maria Prins, Karien Stronks, Maurice P Zeegers
• Waves of attention: patterns and themes of international antimicrobial resistance reports, 1945–2020 (5 November, 2021)

  Kristen Overton, Nicolas Fortané, Alex Broom, Stephanie Raymond, Christoph Gradmann, Ebiowei Samuel F Orubu, Scott H Podolsky, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Muhammad H Zaman, Claas Kirchhelle
• Ethical and sociocultural challenges in managing dead bodies during epidemics and natural disasters (5 November, 2021)

  Halina Suwalowska, Fatu Amara, Nia Roberts, Patricia Kingori
• Effectiveness of participatory women’s groups scaled up by the public health system to improve birth outcomes in Jharkhand, eastern India: a pragmatic cluster non-randomised controlled trial (3 November, 2021)

  Nirmala Nair, Prasanta K Tripathy, Rajkumar Gope, Shibanand Rath, Hemanta Pradhan, Suchitra Rath, Amit Kumar, Vikash Nath, Parabita Basu, Amit Ojha, Andrew Copas, Tanja AJ Houweling, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Akay Minz, Pradeep Baskey, Manir Ahmed, Vasudha Chakravarthy, Riza Mahanta, Audrey Prost
• Strengthening public financial management in the health sector: a qualitative case study from South Africa (2 November, 2021)

  Jodi Wishnia, Jane Goudge
• Impact of zero-mark-up medicines policy on hospital revenue structure: a panel data analysis of 136 public tertiary hospitals in China, 2012–2020 (1 November, 2021)

  Hanchao Cheng, Yuou Zhang, Jing Sun, Yuanli Liu
• Projections of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination impact in Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Pakistan: a comparative modelling study (1 November, 2021)

  Allison Portnoy, Kaja Abbas, Steven Sweet, Jane J Kim, Mark Jit
• Effects of a lifestyle intervention programme after 1 year of follow-up among South Asians at high risk of type 2 diabetes: a cluster randomised controlled trial (1 November, 2021)

  Mirthe Muilwijk, Marie Loh, Samreen Siddiqui, Sara Mahmood, Saranya Palaniswamy, Khurram Shahzad, Lathika K Athauda, Ranil Jayawardena, Tayyaba Batool, Saira Burney, Matthew Glover, Vodathi Bamunuarachchi, Manju Panda, Madawa Madawanarachchi, Baldeesh Rai, Iqra Sattar, Wnurinham Silva, Swati Waghdhare, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Ravindra Prasan Rannan-Eliya, Nilmini Wijemunige, Heather M Gage, Jonathan Valabhji, Gary S Frost, Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Khadija I Khawaja, Sajjad Ahmad, Irene GM van Valkengoed, Prasad Katulanda, Sujeet Jha, Jaspal S Kooner, John C Chambers
• Global red and processed meat trade and non-communicable diseases (15 November, 2021)

  Min Gon Chung, Yingjie Li, Jianguo Liu