Table of contents

Original research

• Using geospatial models to map zero-dose children: factors associated with zero-dose vaccination status before and after a mass measles and rubella vaccination campaign in Southern province, Zambia (30 December, 2021)

  Rohan Arambepola, Yangyupei Yang, Kyle Hutchinson, Francis Dien Mwansa, Julie Ann Doherty, Frazer Bwalya, Phillimon Ndubani, Gloria Musukwa, William John Moss, Amy Wesolowski, Simon Mutembo
• Understanding factors impacting global priority of emergency care: a qualitative policy analysis (30 December, 2021)

  Portia I Chipendo, Yusra R Shawar, Jeremy Shiffman, Junaid Abdul Razzak
• Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis (30 December, 2021)

  Muhammad Ashar Malik, Lara Riedige Rohm, Pieter van Baal, Eddy van Doorslaer van Doorslaer
• Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial (24 December, 2021)

  Carolyn A Fahey, Prosper F Njau, Nicole K Kelly, Rashid S Mfaume, Patrick T Bradshaw, William H Dow, Sandra I McCoy
• Social capital in the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases among migrants and refugees: a systematic review and meta-ethnography (24 December, 2021)

  Sok Teng Tan, Pei Ting Amanda Low, Natasha Howard, Huso Yi
• Improving equity in the distribution and financing of health services in Mauritius, a small island state with deeply rooted welfare state standards (23 December, 2021)

  Ajoy Nundoochan
• Who funded the research behind the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine? (22 December, 2021)

  Samuel Cross, Yeanuk Rho, Henna Reddy, Toby Pepperrell, Florence Rodgers, Rhiannon Osborne, Ayolola Eni-Olotu, Rishi Banerjee, Sabrina Wimmer, Sarai Keestra
• Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness (20 December, 2021)

  Felix Lam, Angela Stegmuller, Victoria B Chou, Hamish R Graham
• Costs of hand hygiene for all in household settings: estimating the price tag for the 46 least developed countries (16 December, 2021)

  Ian Ross, Joanna Esteves Mills, Tom Slaymaker, Richard Johnston, Guy Hutton, Robert Dreibelbis, Maggie Montgomery
• Pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in The Gambia: health impact, cost effectiveness and budget implications (16 December, 2021)

  Clint Pecenka, Effua Usuf, Ilias Hossain, Sana Sambou, Elisabeth Vodicka, Deborah Atherly, Grant Mackenzie
• The isolated effect of age on the risk of COVID-19 severe outcomes: a systematic review with meta-analysis (16 December, 2021)

  Karla Romero Starke, David Reissig, Gabriela Petereit-Haack, Stefanie Schmauder, Albert Nienhaus, Andreas Seidler
• Long-term effects of payment for performance on maternal and child health outcomes: evidence from Tanzania (16 December, 2021)

  Josephine Borghi, Peter Binyaruka, Iddy Mayumana, Siri Lange, Vincent Somville, Ottar Maestad
• Prevalence of Long COVID symptoms in Bangladesh: a prospective Inception Cohort Study of COVID-19 survivors (14 December, 2021)

  Mohammad Anwar Hossain, K M Amran Hossain, Karen Saunders, Zakir Uddin, Lori Maria Walton, Veena Raigangar, Mohamed Sakel, Rubayet Shafin, Mohammad Sohrab Hossain, Md Feroz Kabir, Rafey Faruqui, Md Shohag Rana, Md Shahoriar Ahmed, Sonjit Kumar Chakrovorty, Md Anwar Hossain, Iqbal Kabir Jahid
• Difficulties faced by older Rohingya (forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals) adults in accessing medical services amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh (13 December, 2021)

  Sabuj Kanti Mistry, ARM Mehrab Ali, Uday Narayan Yadav, Md. Nazmul Huda, Saruna Ghimire, Amy Bestman, Md. Belal Hossain, Sompa Reza, Rubina Qasim, Mark F Harris
• Impact of night travel ban on road traffic crashes and fatalities in Zambia: an interrupted time series analysis (13 December, 2021)

  Peter Hangoma, Kantu Moonga-Mukale
• Analysing COVID-19 outcomes in the context of the 2019 Global Health Security (GHS) Index (10 December, 2021)

  Sophie M Rose, Michael Paterra, Christopher Isaac, Jessica Bell, Amanda Stucke, Arnold Hagens, Sarah Tyrrell, Michael Guterbock, Jennifer B Nuzzo
• Co-occurring violent discipline of children and intimate partner violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic search and secondary analysis of national datasets (9 December, 2021)

  Sarah Bott, Ana P Ruiz-Celis, Jennifer Adams Mendoza, Alessandra Guedes
• Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand (9 December, 2021)

  Jane Oliver, Julie Bennett, Sally Thomas, Jane Zhang, Nevil Pierse, Nicole J Moreland, Deborah A Williamson, Susan Jack, Michael Baker
• Changes in respiratory diseases in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series study (9 December, 2021)

  Seog-Kyun Mun, Bo Ram Yang, Munyoung Chang
• Economic inequality in malnutrition: a global systematic review and meta-analysis (9 December, 2021)

  Rotimi Alao, Hayaan Nur, Emily Fivian, Bhavani Shankar, Suneetha Kadiyala, Helen Harris-Fry
• Participants’ experiences of engagement in community-centred mental health and psychosocial support programmes in conflict-affected communities within sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative systematic review (9 December, 2021)

  Cleothia Caroline Alford, Yuko Otake
• Geographic barriers to establishing a successful hospital referral system in rural Madagascar (8 December, 2021)

  Felana Angella Ihantamalala, Matthew H Bonds, Mauricianot Randriamihaja, Luc Rakotonirina, Vincent Herbreteau, Christophe Révillion, Serge Rakotoarimanana, Giovanna Cowley, Tsirinomen’ny Aina Andriatiana, Alishya Mayfield, Michael L Rich, Rado J L Rakotonanahary, Karen E Finnegan, Andriamanolohaja Ramarson, Benedicte Razafinjato, Bruno Ramiandrisoa, Andriamihaja Randrianambinina, Laura F Cordier, Andres Garchitorena
• Gender inequality in the global mental health research workforce: a research authorship scoping review and qualitative study in Nepal (8 December, 2021)

  Dristy Gurung, Manaswi Sangraula, Prasansa Subba, Anubhuti Poudyal, Shelly Mishra, Brandon A Kohrt
• Four decades of epidemiological data reveal trajectories towards malaria elimination in Kheda district (Gujarat), western part of India (8 December, 2021)

  Rajendra Kumar Baharia, Chander Prakash Yadav, Amit Sharma
• Does the implementation of UHC reforms foster greater equality in health spending? Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in Burkina Faso (8 December, 2021)

  Manuela De Allegri, Martin Rudasingwa, Edmund Yeboah, Emmanuel Bonnet, Paul André Somé, Valéry Ridde
• Modelling the cost-effectiveness of essential and advanced critical care for COVID-19 patients in Kenya (7 December, 2021)

  Angela Kairu, Vincent Were, Lynda Isaaka, Ambrose Agweyu, Samuel Aketch, Edwine Barasa
• Reducing surgical site infections and mortality among obstetric surgical patients in Tanzania: a pre-evaluation and postevaluation of a multicomponent safe surgery intervention (7 December, 2021)

  Edwin Charles Ernest, Augustino Hellar, John Varallo, Leopold Tibyehabwa, Margaret Mary Bertram, Laura Fitzgerald, Adam Katoto, Stella Mshana, Dorcas Simba, Kelvin Gwitaba, Rohini Boddu, Shehnaz Alidina, Geofrey Giiti, Albert Kihunrwa, Belinda Balandya, David Urassa, Yahya Hussein, Caroline Damien, Brendan Wackenreuter, David Barash, Melissa Morrison, Cheri Reynolds, Alice Christensen, Ahmed Makuwani
• If we build it, will they come? Results of a quasi-experimental study assessing the impact of maternity waiting homes on facility-based childbirth and maternity care in Zambia (7 December, 2021)

  Nancy A Scott, Jeanette L Kaiser, Thandiwe Ngoma, Kathleen L McGlasson, Elizabeth G Henry, Michelle L Munro-Kramer, Godfrey Biemba, Misheck Bwalya, Viviane R Sakanga, Gertrude Musonda, Davidson H Hamer, Carol J Boyd, Rachael Bonawitz, Taryn Vian, Margaret E Kruk, Rachel M Fong, Parker S Chastain, Kaluba Mataka, Eden Ahmed Mdluli, Philip Veliz, Jody R Lori, Peter C Rockers
• Mapping global trends in vaccine sales before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional time-series analysis (2 December, 2021)

  Seraphine Zeitouny, Katie J Suda, Kannop Mitsantisuk, Michael R Law, Mina Tadrous
• Neighbourhood-level income and Zika virus infection during pregnancy in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil: an ecological perspective, 2015–2017 (2 December, 2021)

  Ludmila Lobkowicz, Grace M Power, Wayner Vieira De Souza, Ulisses Ramos Montarroyos, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Thalia Velho Barreto de Araùjo, Luciana Caroline Albuquerque Bezerra, Rafael Dhalia, Ernesto T A Marques, Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho, Elizabeth B Brickley, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes
• Stark choices: exploring health sector costs of policy responses to COVID-19 in low-income and middle-income countries (2 December, 2021)

  Sergio Torres-Rueda, Sedona Sweeney, Fiammetta Bozzani, Nichola R Naylor, Tim Baker, Carl Pearson, Rosalind Eggo, Simon R Procter, Nicholas Davies, Matthew Quaife, Nichola Kitson, Marcus R Keogh-Brown, Henning Tarp Jensen, Nuru Saadi, Mishal Khan, Maryam Huda, Angela Kairu, Raza Zaidi, Edwine Barasa, Mark Jit, Anna Vassall
• Self-reported provision of person-centred maternity care among providers in Kenya and Ghana: scale validation and examination of associated factors (1 December, 2021)

  Patience A Afulani, Raymond A Aborigo, Jerry John Nutor, Jaffer Okiring, Irene Kuwolamo, Beryl A Ogolla, Edwina N Oboke, John Baptist K Dorzie, Osamuedeme J Odiase, Jody Steinauer, Dilys Walker
• Antimicrobial use and resistance data in human and animal sectors in the Lao PDR: evidence to inform policy (1 December, 2021)

  Vilada Chansamouth, Mayfong Mayxay, David AB Dance, Tamalee Roberts, Rattanaxay Phetsouvanh, Bouakham Vannachone, Manivanh Vongsouvath, Viengmon Davong, Phout Inthavong, Syseng Khounsy, Bounxou Keohavong, Valy Keoluangkhot, Khamla Choumlivong, Nicholas PJ Day, Paul Turner, Elizabeth A Ashley, H. Rogier van Doorn, Paul N Newton
• The COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare systems in Africa: a scoping review of preparedness, impact and response (1 December, 2021)

  Gizachew A Tessema, Yohannes Kinfu, Berihun Assefa Dachew, Azeb Gebresilassie Tesema, Yibeltal Assefa, Kefyalew Addis Alene, Atsede Fantahun Aregay, Mohammed Biset Ayalew, Woldesellassie M Bezabhe, Ayele Geleto Bali, Abel Fekadu Dadi, Bereket Duko, Daniel Erku, Kahsu Gebrekidan, Kidane Tadesse Gebremariam, Lemlem Gebremedhin Gebremichael, Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohannes, Yalemzewod Assefa Gelaw, Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Cheru Tesema Leshargie, Maereg Wagnew Meazew, Alemayehu Mekonnen, Alemnesh H. Mirkuzie, Hassen Mohammed, Dejen Yemane Tekle, Fisaha Haile Tesfay
• National health governance, science and the media: drivers of COVID-19 responses in Germany, Sweden and the UK in 2020 (6 December, 2021)

  Claudia Hanson, Susanne Luedtke, Neil Spicer, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Susannah Mayhew, Sandra Mounier-Jack