Table of contents

Original research

• Effectiveness and safety of reactive focal mass drug administration (rfMDA) using dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine to reduce malaria transmission in the very low-endemic setting of Eswatini: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial (30 June, 2021)

  Sibonakaliso Vilakati, Nontokozo Mngadi, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Nomcebo Dlamini, Mi-Suk Kang Dufour, Brooke Whittemore, Khayelihle Bhangu, Lisa M Prach, Kimberly Baltzell, Nomcebo Nhlabathi, Calisile Malambe, Bongani Dlamini, Danica Helb, Bryan Greenhouse, Gugu Maphalala, Deepa Pindolia, Muhindo Kalungero, Getahun Tesfa, Roly Gosling, Nyasatu Ntshalintshali, Simon Kunene, Michelle S Hsiang
• Exploring smoke: an ethnographic study of air pollution in rural Malawi (30 June, 2021)

  Sepeedeh Saleh, Henry Sambakunsi, Kevin Mortimer, Ben Morton, Moses Kumwenda, Jamie Rylance, Martha Chinouya
• Active commuting and the risk of obesity, hypertension and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies (25 June, 2021)

  Jian Wu, Quanman Li, Yu Feng, Soumitra S Bhuyan, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Xin Zeng, Cuiping Wu, Ning Chen, Yudong Miao
• Increasing demand for school counselling through a lay counsellor-delivered classroom sensitisation intervention: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial in New Delhi, India (25 June, 2021)

  Rachana Parikh, Adriaan Hoogendoorn, Daniel Michelson, Jeroen Ruwaard, Rhea Sharma, Bhargav Bhat, Kanika Malik, Rooplata Sahu, Pim Cuijpers, Vikram Patel
• Performance assessment of the county healthcare systems in Kenya: a mixed-methods analysis (24 June, 2021)

  Mark W Moses, Julius Korir, Wu Zeng, Anita Musiega, Joyce Oyasi, Ruoyan Lu, Jane Chuma, Laura Di Giorgio
• ‘I haven’t heard much about other methods’: quality of care and person-centredness in a programme to promote the postpartum intrauterine device in Tanzania (23 June, 2021)

  Leigh Senderowicz, Erin Pearson, Kristy Hackett, Sarah Huber-Krum, Joel Msafiri Francis, Nzovu Ulenga, Till Bärnighausen
• Health systems strengthening to arrest the global disability burden: empirical development of prioritised components for a global strategy for improving musculoskeletal health (18 June, 2021)

  Andrew M Briggs, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Helen Slater, Joanne E Jordan, Sarika Parambath, James J Young, Saurab Sharma, Deborah Kopansky-Giles, Swatee Mishrra, Kristina E Akesson, Nuzhat Ali, Joletta Belton, Neil Betteridge, Fiona M Blyth, Richard Brown, Demelash Debere, Karsten E Dreinhöfer, Laura Finucane, Helen E Foster, Francesca Gimigliano, Scott Haldeman, Syed A Haq, Ben Horgan, Anil Jain, Manjul Joshipura, Asgar A Kalla, Jakob Lothe, Shuichi Matsuda, Ali Mobasheri, Lillian Mwaniki, Margareta C Nordin, Marilyn Pattison, Felipe J J Reis, Enrique R Soriano, Heather Tick, James Waddell, Dieter Wiek, Anthony D Woolf, Lyn March
• Integrated health service delivery during COVID-19: a scoping review of published evidence from low-income and lower-middle-income countries (16 June, 2021)

  Md Zabir Hasan, Rachel Neill, Priyanka Das, Vasuki Venugopal, Dinesh Arora, David Bishai, Nishant Jain, Shivam Gupta
• Premature adult mortality in India: what is the size of the matter? (16 June, 2021)

  Chalapati Rao, Aashish Gupta, Mamta Gupta, Ajit Kumar Yadav
• Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and regional estimates (15 June, 2021)

  Ana Pilar Betran, Jiangfeng Ye, Ann-Beth Moller, João Paulo Souza, Jun Zhang
• Big food and the World Health Organization: a qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy (11 June, 2021)

  Kathrin Lauber, Harry Rutter, Anna B Gilmore
• Interventions to improve district-level routine health data in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review (11 June, 2021)

  Jieun Lee, Caroline A Lynch, Lauren Oliveira Hashiguchi, Robert W Snow, Naomi D Herz, Jayne Webster, Justin Parkhurst, Ngozi A Erondu
• Indirect effects of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal carriage in children hospitalised with acute respiratory infection despite heterogeneous vaccine coverage: an observational study in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (9 June, 2021)

  Jocelyn Chan, Jana Y R Lai, Cattram D Nguyen, Keoudomphone Vilivong, Eileen M Dunne, Audrey Dubot-Pérès, Kimberley Fox, Jason Hinds, Kerryn A Moore, Monica L Nation, Casey L Pell, Anonh Xeuatvongsa, Manivanh Vongsouvath, Paul N Newton, Kim Mulholland, Catherine Satzke, David A B Dance, Fiona M Russell
• Impact of free maternity policies in Kenya: an interrupted time-series analysis (9 June, 2021)

  Stacey Orangi, Angela Kairu, Lucas Malla, Joanne Ondera, Boniface Mbuthia, Nirmala Ravishankar, Edwine Barasa
• Child health and the implementation of Community and District-management Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES) in Uganda: a randomised controlled trial (8 June, 2021)

  Peter Waiswa, Flavia Mpanga, Danstan Bagenda, Rornald Muhumuza Kananura, Thomas O’Connell, Dorcus Kiwanuka Henriksson, Theresa Diaz, Florence Ayebare, Anne Ruhweza Katahoire, Eric Ssegujja, Anthony Mbonye, Stefan Swartling Peterson
• The secondary transmission pattern of COVID-19 based on contact tracing in Rwanda (8 June, 2021)

  Muhammed Semakula, FranÇois Niragire, Angela Umutoni, Sabin Nsanzimana, Vedaste Ndahindwa, Edison Rwagasore, Thierry Nyatanyi, Eric Remera, Christel Faes
• Bridging the gap: aligning economic research with disease burden (7 June, 2021)

  Lauren A Do, Patricia G Synnott, Siyu Ma, Daniel A Ollendorf
• Optimising geographical accessibility to primary health care: a geospatial analysis of community health posts and community health workers in Niger (7 June, 2021)

  Nicholas Paul Oliphant, Nicolas Ray, Khaled Bensaid, Adama Ouedraogo, Asma Yaroh Gali, Oumarou Habi, Ibrahim Maazou, Rocco Panciera, Maria Muñiz, Zeynabou Sy, Samuel Manda, Debra Jackson, Tanya Doherty
• A network meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions for refugees and asylum seekers with PTSD (4 June, 2021)

  Giulia Turrini, Federico Tedeschi, Pim Cuijpers, Cinzia Del Giovane, Ahlke Kip, Nexhmedin Morina, Michela Nosè, Giovanni Ostuzzi, Marianna Purgato, Chiara Ricciardi, Marit Sijbrandij, Wietse Tol, Corrado Barbui
• Defining global health: findings from a systematic review and thematic analysis of the literature (3 June, 2021)

  Melissa Salm, Mahima Ali, Mairead Minihane, Patricia Conrad
• A partisan pandemic: state government public health policies to combat COVID-19 in Brazil (3 June, 2021)

  Michael Touchton, Felicia Marie Knaul, Héctor Arreola-Ornelas, Thalia Porteny, Mariano Sánchez, Oscar Méndez, Marco Faganello, Vaugh Edelson, Benjamin Gygi, Calla Hummel, Silvia Otero, Jorge Insua, Eduardo Undurraga, Julio Antonio Rosado
• Accuracy of verbal autopsy, clinical data and minimally invasive autopsy in the evaluation of malaria-specific mortality: an observational study (3 June, 2021)

  Natalia Rakislova, Dercio Jordao, Mamudo R Ismail, Alfredo Mayor, Pau Cisteró, Lorena Marimon, Melania Ferrando, Juan Carlos Hurtado, Lucilia Lovane, Carla Carrilho, Cesaltina Lorenzoni, Fabiola Fernandes, Tacilta Nhampossa, Anelsio Cossa, Inacio Mandomando, Mireia Navarro, Isaac Casas, Khatia Munguambe, Maria Maixenchs, Llorenç Quintó, Eusebio Macete, Mikel Martinez, Robert W Snow, Quique Bassat, Clara Menéndez, Jaume Ordi
• Unravelling ‘low-resource settings’: a systematic scoping review with qualitative content analysis (3 June, 2021)

  Chanel van Zyl, Marelise Badenhorst, Susan Hanekom, Martin Heine
• Health systems factors impacting the integration of midwifery: an evidence-informed framework on strengthening midwifery associations (2 June, 2021)

  Cristina Mattison, Kirsty Bourret, Emmanuelle Hebert, Sebalda Leshabari, Ambrocckha Kabeya, Patrick Achiga, Jamie Robinson, Elizabeth Darling
• Accuracy of malaria diagnostic tests performed on non-invasively collected samples: a systematic review and meta-analysis (1 June, 2021)

  Celestin Danwang, Jean Jacques Noubiap, Jacob Souopgui, Jean Gaudart, Jean Cyr Yombi, Annie Robert