Submissions from 2011
Influenza-related mortality trends in japanese and american seniors: Evidence for the indirect mortality benefits of vaccinating schoolchildren, V Charu, C Viboud, L Simonsen, K Sturm-Ramirez, and M Shinjoh
Supplementation with vitamin A early in life and subsequent risk of asthma, W. Checkley, K. P. West, R. A. Wise, L. Wu, S. C. LeClerq, S. Khatry, J. Katz, P. Christian, J. M. Tielsch, and A. Sommer
Characterizing the Epidemiology of the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 Pandemic in Mexico, G Chowell, S Echevarría-Zuno, C Viboud, L Simonsen, and J Tamerius
Spatial and temporal characteristics of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza Pandemic in Peru, G Chowell, C Viboud, CV Munayco, J Gómez, and L Simonsen
Measuring the benefits of school closure interventions to mitigate influenza, G Chowell, C Viboud, L Simonsen, and MA Miller
The 1918-1920 influenza pandemic in Peru, G Chowell, C Viboud, L Simonsen, MA Miller, and J Hurtado
Preschool iron-folic acid and zinc supplementation in children exposed to iron-folic acid in utero confers no added cognitive benefit in early school-age, Parul Christian, Mary E. Morgan, Laura Murray-Kolb, Steven C. LeClerq, Subarna K. Khatry, Barbara Schaefer, Pamela M. Cole, Joanne Katz, and James M. Tielsch
Estimating the magnitude and direction of altered arbovirus transmission due to viral phenotype, Rebecca C. Christofferson and Christopher N. Mores
Risk factors associated with childhood strabismus: The multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease and baltimore pediatric eye disease studies, Susan A. Cotter, Rohit Varma, Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Jesse Lin, Ge Wen, Jolyn Wei, Mark Borchert, Stanley P. Azen, Mina Torres, James M. Tielsch, David S. Friedman, Michael X. Repka, Joanne Katz, Josephine Ibironke, and Lydia Giordano
Violence against women is strongly associated with suicide attempts: Evidence from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women, Karen Devries, Charlotte Watts, Mieko Yoshihama, Ligia Kiss, Lilia Blima Schraiber, Negussie Deyessa, Lori Heise, Julia Durand, Jessie Mbwambo, Henrica Janssen, Yemane Berhane, Mary Ellsberg, and Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Disability among native-born and foreign-born blacks in the United States, Irma T. Elo, Neil K. Mehta, and Cheng Huang
Breast-feeding initiation time and neonatal mortality risk among newborns in South India, C. R. Garcia, L. C. Mullany, L. Rahmathullah, J. Katz, R. D. Thulasiraj, S. Sheeladevi, C. Coles, and J. M. Tielsch
Health inputs and cumulative health deficits among the older Chinese, Danan Gu, Jessica Sautter, Cheng Huang, and Yi Zeng
Computerized lung sound analysis as diagnostic aid for the detection of abnormal lung sounds: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Arati Gurung, Carolyn G. Scrafford, James M. Tielsch, Orin S. Levine, and William Checkley
Behind the silence of harmony: Risk factors for physical and sexual violence among women in rural Indonesia, Elli N. Hayati, Ulf Högberg, Mohammad Hakimi, Mary C. Ellsberg, and Maria Emmelin
Authors' response, Amy L. Hennessy, Joanne Katz, Rengappa Ramakrishnan, Ramasamy Krishnadas, Ravilla D. Thulasiraj, James M. Tielsch, and Alan L. Robin
The utility of relative afferent pupillary defect as a screening tool for glaucoma: Prospective examination of a large population-based study in a south Indian population, Amy L. Hennessy, Joanne Katz, Rengappa Ramakrishnan, Ramasamy Krishnadas, Ravilla D. Thulasiraj, James M. Tielsch, and Alan L. Robin
Global health: Injuries and violence, Hadley K. Herbert, Adnan A. Hyder, Alexander Butchart, and Robyn Norton
Ten-year change in vision-related quality of life in type 1 diabetes: Wisconsin Epidemiologic study of diabetic retinopathy, Flavio E. Hirai, James M. Tielsch, Barbara E.K. Klein, and Ronald Klein
Region of Birth and Disability Among Recent U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the 2000 Census, Cheng Huang, Neil K. Mehta, Irma T. Elo, Solveig A. Cunningham, Rob Stephenson, David F. Williamson, and K. M.Venkat Narayan
Do early-life conditions predict functional health status in adulthood? The case of Mexico, Cheng Huang, Beth J. Soldo, and Irma T. Elo
National policy-makers speak out: Are researchers giving them what they need?, Adnan A. Hyder, Adrijana Corluka, Peter J. Winch, Azza El-Shinnawy, Harith Ghassany, Hossein Malekafzali, Meng Kin Lim, Joseph Mfutso-Bengo, Elsa Segura, and Abdul Ghaffar
Reduction of childhood mortality through millennium development goal 4, Adnan A. Hyder and Jeffrey Lunnen
Child development and refractive errors in preschool children, Josephine O. Ibironke, David S. Friedman, Michael X. Repka, Joanne Katz, Lydia Giordano, Patricia Hawse, and James M. Tielsch
Patterns of injury and violence in Yaoundé Cameroon: An analysis of hospital data, Catherine Juillard, Georges Alain Etoundi Mballa, Chancelline Bilounga Ndongo, Kent A. Stevens, and Adnan A. Hyder
Consensus statements regarding the multidisciplinary care of limb amputation patients in disasters or humanitarian emergencies: Report of the 2011 humanitarian action summit surgical working group on amputations following disasters or conflict, Lisa Marie Knowlton, James E. Gosney, Smita Chackungal, Eric Altschuler, Lynn Black, Frederick M. Burkle, Kathleen Casey, David Crandell, Didier Demey, Lillian Di Giacomo, Lena Dohlman, Joshua Goldstein, Richard Gosselin, Keita Ikeda, Andree Le Roy, Allison Linden, Catherine M. Mullaly, and Jason Nickerson
Medical schools in sub-saharan Africa, Abdel Karim Koumaré, Mohenou Isodore Diomande, Ekoe Tetanye, Charles Boelen, André Jacques Neusy, Francis Omaswa, Fitzhugh Mullan, Seble Frehywot, Joseph Kolars, and Éric Buch
Incidence of and risk factors for neonatal respiratory depression and encephalopathy in rural Sarlahi, Nepal, Anne C.C. Lee, Luke C. Mullany, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Ramesh K. Adhikari, and Gary L. Darmstadt
Community-based stillbirth rates and risk factors in rural Sarlahi, Nepal, Anne C. Lee, Luke C. Mullany, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Ramesh K. Adhikari, and Gary L. Darmstadt
Risk factors for astigmatism in preschool children: The multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease and baltimore pediatric eye disease studies, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Rohit Varma, Susan A. Cotter, Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch, Mark S. Borchert, Jesse H. Lin, Ge Wen, Stanley P. Azen, Mina Torres, James M. Tielsch, David S. Friedman, Michael X. Repka, Joanne Katz, Josephine Ibironke, and Lydia Giordano
Knowledge attitudes and practices of grade three primary schoolchildren in relation to schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminthiasis and malaria in Zimbabwe, Nicholas Midzi, Sekesai Mtapuri-Zinyowera, Munyaradzi P. Mapingure, Noah H. Paul, Davison Sangweme, Gibson Hlerema, Masceline J. Mutsaka, Farisai Tongogara, Godfrey Makware, Vivian Chadukura, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Francisca Mutapi, Nirbhay Kumar, and Takafira Mduluza
Efficacy of integrated school based de-worming and prompt malaria treatment on helminths -Plasmodium falciparum co-infections: A 33 months follow up study, Nicholas Midzi, Sekesai Mtapuri-Zinyowera, Davison Sangweme, Noah H. Paul, Godfrey Makware, Munyaradzi P. Mapingure, Kimberly C. Brouwer, James Mudzori, Gibson Hlerema, Vivian Chadukura, Francisca Mutapi, Nirbhay Kumar, and Takafira Mduluza
Voluntary reduction of trans-fatty acids in Latin America and the Caribbean: Current situation, Rafael Monge-Rojas, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Enrique Jacoby, and Dariush Mozaffarian
Erratum: Medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa (Lancet (2011) 377 (1113-1121)), F. Mullan, S. Frehywot, and F. Omaswa
Medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa, Fitzhugh Mullan, Seble Frehywot, Francis Omaswa, Eric Buch, Candice Chen, S. Ryan Greysen, Travis Wassermann, Diaa Eldin Elgaili Abubakr, Magda Awases, Charles Boelen, Mohenou Jean Marie Isidore Diomande, Delanyo Dovlo, Josefo Ferro, Abraham Haileamlak, Jehu Iputo, Marian Jacobs, Abdel Karim Koumaré, and Mwapatsa Mipando
Rebuilding and strengthening health systems and providing basic health services in fragile states, William Newbrander, Ronald Waldman, and Megan Shepherd-Banigan
Linking global hiv/aids treatments with national programs for the control and elimination of the neglected tropical diseases, J Noblick, R Skolnik, and PJ Hotez
Women's health disparities in honduras: Indicators and determinants, Joan Price and Ramin Asgary
Application of Healthy Life Year Measures to Environmental Health Issues, P. Puvanachandra, A. A. Hyder, and R. H. Morrow
Population-based prevalence of uveitis in Southern India, Sivakumar R. Rathinam, Ramasamy Krishnadas, Rengapa Ramakrishnan, Ravilla D. Thulasiraj, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Alan L. Robin, and John H. Kempen
Gradual changes in the age distribution of excess deaths in the years following the 1918 influenza pandemic in copenhagen: Using epidemiological evidence to detect antigenic drift, N Saglanmak, V Andreasen, L Simonsen, K Mølbak, and MA Miller
Financial impact to providers using pediatric combination vaccines, AK Shen, E Sobczyk, L Simonsen, F Khan, and A Esber
Inconsistent effects of iron-folic acid and/or zinc supplementation on the cognitive development of infants, Emily H. Siegel, Katarzyna Kordas, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, and James M. Tielsch
The need for interdisciplinary studies of historic pandemics, L Simonsen, C Viboud, G Chowell, V Andreasen, and DR Olson
Cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination in Bolivia from the state perspective, Emily R. Smith, Emily E. Rowlinson, Volga Iniguez, Kizee A. Etienne, Rosario Rivera, Nataniel Mamani, Rick Rheingans, Maritza Patzi, Percy Halkyer, and Juan S. Leon
Health and human rights in Chin State, Western Burma: A population-based assessment using multistaged household cluster sampling, Richard Sollom, Adam K. Richards, Parveen Parmar, Luke C. Mullany, Salai Bawi Lian, Vincent Iacopino, and Chris Beyrer
Research translation to inform national health policies: Learning from multiple perspectives in Uganda, Freddie Ssengooba, Lynn Atuyambe, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Nancy Glass, and Adnan A. Hyder
Risk factors for decreased visual acuity in preschool children: The multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease and baltimore pediatric eye disease studies, Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch, Rohit Varma, Susan A. Cotter, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Jesse H. Lin, Mark S. Borchert, Mina Torres, Ge Wen, Stanley P. Azen, James M. Tielsch, David S. Friedman, Michael X. Repka, Joanne Katz, Josephine Ibironke, and Lydia Giordano
Cognitive functioning and the probability of falls among seniors in Havana, Cuba, Antonio J. Trujillo, Adnan A. Hyder, and Laura C. Steinhardt
Individual income and falls among the elderly in Latin America, Antonio J. Trujillo, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, and Adnan A. Hyder
Does seasonal influenza vaccination increase the risk of illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic virus?, C Viboud and L Simonsen
Submissions from 2010
The short-term impacts of a schooling conditional cash transfer program on the sexual behavior of young women, S Baird, E Chirwa, C McIntosh, and B Özler
Child supervision practices for drowning prevention in rural Bangladesh: A pilot study of supervision tools, J. A. Callaghan, A. A. Hyder, R. Khan, L. S. Blum, S. Arifeen, and A. H. Baqui
Can the deployment of community health workers for the delivery of HIV services represent an effective and sustainable response to health workforce shortages? Results of a multicountry study, Francesca Celletti, Anna Wright, John Palen, Seble Frehywot, Anne Markus, Alan Greenberg, Rafael Augusto Teixeira De Aguiar, Francisco Campos, Eric Buch, and Badara Samb
The global burden of unintentional injuries and an agenda for progress, Aruna Chandran, Adnan A. Hyder, and Corinne Peek-Asa
Maternal Vitamin A supplementation and lung function in offspring, William Checkley, Keith P. West, Robert A. Wise, Matthew R. Baldwin, Lee Wu, Steven C. Leclerq, Parul Christian, Joanne Katz, James M. Tielsch, Subarna Khatry, and Alfred Sommer
Mortality patterns associated with the 1918 influenza pandemic in Mexico: Evidence for a spring herald wave and lack of preexisting immunity in older populations, G Chowel, C Viboud, L Simonsen, MA Miller, and R Acuna-Soto
The reproduction number of seasonal influenza epidemics in Brazil, 1996-2006, G. Chowell, C. Viboud, L. Simonsen, M. Miller, and W. J. Alonso
Prenatal micronutrient supplementation and intellectual and motor function in early school-aged children in Nepal, Parul Christian, Laura E. Murray-Kolb, Subarna K. Khatry, Joanne Katz, Barbara A. Schaefer, Pamela M. Cole, Steven C. LeClerq, and James M. Tielsch
Factors associated with mosquito pool positivity and the characterization of the West Nile viruses found within Louisiana during 2007, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Alma F. Roy, and Christopher N. Mores
Elevated influenza-related excess mortality in South African elderly individuals, 1998-2005, C Cohen, L Simonsen, J. W. Kang, J McAnerney, and L Blumberg
Reduction in gastroenteritis in united states children and correlation with early rotavirus vaccine uptake from national medical claims databases, MM Cortese, JE Tate, L Simonsen, L Edelman, and UD Parashar
Joint effect of maternal depression and intimate partner violence on increased risk of child death in rural Ethiopia, N. Deyessa, Y. Berhane, M. Emmelin, M. C. Ellsberg, G. Kullgren, and Ulf Högberg
Applied sequencing center initiative, A. Feldman, P. Demirev, A. Greenberg, J. Lin, T. Mehoke, E. Van Gieson, C. Young, J. Hahn, J. Proescher, R. Quizon, A. Sivakumar, J. Ticehurst, A. Chakravarti, K. Schwab, and N. Kumar
Rapid detection of malaria parasites, A. Feldman, J. Lin, S. Murphy, P. Demirev, D. Sullivan, P. Scholl, and N. Kumar
Compulsory service programmes for recruiting health workers in remote and rural areas: Do they work?, Seble Frehywot, Fitzhugh Mullan, Perry W. Payne, and Heather Ross
Author reply, David S. Friedman, Joanne Katz, Michael X. Repka, and James M. Tielsch
Establishing the baseline burden of influenza in preparation for the evaluation of a countywide school-based influenza vaccination campaign, CG Grijalva, Y Zhu, L Simonsen, and MR Griffin
Trend and inequality in immunization dropout among young children in Cambodia, R Hong and V Chhea
Early life exposure to the 1959-1961 Chinese famine has long-term health consequences, Cheng Huang, Zhu Li, Meng Wang, and Reynaldo Martorell
Web 2.0 and internet social networking: A new tool for disaster management? - Lessons from Taiwan, Cheng Min Huang, Edward Chan, and Adnan A. Hyder
Road traffic injuries in developing countries: Research and action agenda, Cheng Min Huang, Jeffrey C. Lunnen, J. Jaime Miranda, and Adnan A. Hyder
Bigger babies born to women survivors of the 1959–1961 Chinese famine: A puzzle due to survival selection?, C. Huang, Z. Li, K. M. Venkat Narayan, D. F. Williamson, and R. Martorell
Stakeholder analysis for health research: Case studies from low- and middle-income countries, A. Hyder, S. Syed, P. Puvanachandra, G. Bloom, S. Sundaram, S. Mahmood, M. Iqbal, Z. Hongwen, N. Ravichandran, O. Oladepo, G. Pariyo, and D. Peters
Malaria incidence and prevalence on Pemba Island before the onset of the successful control intervention on the Zanzibar Archipelago, Thomas Jaenisch, David J. Sullivan, Arup Dutta, Saikat Deb, Mahdi Ramsan, Mashavu K. Othman, Roger Gaczkowski, James Tielsch, and Sunil Sazawal
Socioeconomic impact of road traffic injuries in west Africa: Exploratory data from Nigeria, Catherine Juillard, Mariam Labinjo, Olive Kobusingye, and Adnan A. Hyder
Daily supplementation with iron plus folic acid, zinc, and their combination is not associated with younger age at first walking unassisted in malnourished preschool children from a deficient population in rural Nepal, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Luke C. Mullany, Elizabeth L. Yanik, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Emily H. Siegel, and James M. Tielsch
Mortality trends in systemic sclerosis in France and USA, 1980-1998: An age-period-cohort analysis, S. Kerneis, P.Y. Boelle, G. Pavillon, E. Jougla, and A. Flahault
Rebuilding health systems to improve health and promote statebuilding in post-conflict countries: A theoretical framework and research agenda, Margaret E. Kruk, Lynn P. Freedman, Grace A. Anglin, and Ronald J. Waldman
The epidemiology of road traffic injuries in the Republic of Lithuania, 1998-2007, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hadley K. Herbert, and Adnan A. Hyder
The epidemiology of injury in the Republic of Lithuania, Raimundas Lunevicius, Kent A. Stevens, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, and Adnan A. Hyder
Consequences of polyparasitism on anaemia among primary school children in Zimbabwe, N. Midzi, S. Mtapuri-Zinyowera, M. P. Mapingure, D. Sangweme, M. T. Chirehwa, K. C. Brouwer, J. Mudzori, G. Hlerema, F. Mutapi, N. Kumar, and T. Mduluza
Functional immunogenicity of baculovirus expressing Pfs25, a human malaria transmission-blocking vaccine candidate antigen, Godfree Mlambo, Nirbhay Kumar, and Shigeto Yoshida
Parental feeding styles and adolescents' healthy eating habits. Structure and correlates of a Costa Rican questionnaire, Rafael Monge-Rojas, Vanesa Smith-Castro, Uriyoán Colon-Ramos, Carlos Garita-Arce, Marta Sánchez-López, and Anne Chinnock
Antimalarial preclinical drug development: A single oral dose of a 5-carbon-linked trioxane dimer plus mefloquine cures malaria-infected mice, Deuk Kyu Moon, Vandana Singhal, Nirbhay Kumar, Theresa A. Shapiro, and Gary H. Posner
Incidence and seasonality of hypothermia among newborns in southern Nepal, Luke C. Mullany, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Gary L. Darmstadt, and James M. Tielsch
Neonatal hypothermia and associated risk factors among newborns of southern Nepal, Luke C. Mullany, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Gary L. Darmstadt, and James M. Tielsch
Risk of mortality associated with neonatal hypothermia in southern Nepal, Luke C. Mullany, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Gary L. Darmstadt, and James M. Tielsch
Helminth infection impairs the immunogenicity of a Plasmodium falciparum DNA vaccine, but not irradiated sporozoites, in mice, Gregory S. Noland, Debabani Roy Chowdhury, Joseph F. Urban, Fidel Zavala, and Nirbhay Kumar
Changes in the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, WP O'Meara, JN Mangeni, R Steketee, and B Greenwood
Assessing the burden of paediatric influenza in Europe: The European Paediatric Influenza Analysis (EPIA) project, WJ Paget, C Balderston, I Casas, G Donker, and L Edelman
Poverty, food insecurity, and obesity: A conceptual framework for research, practice, and policy, Lila J.Finney Rutten, Amy L. Yaroch, Uriyoan Colón-Ramos, Wendy Johnson-Askew, and Mary Story
Impact of schistosome infection on plasmodium falciparum malariometric indices and immune correlates in school age children in burma valley, zimbabwe, Davison T. Sangweme, Nicholas Midzi, Sekesai Zinyowera-Mutapuri, Takafira Mduluza, Marie Diener-West, and Nirbhay Kumar
Available evidence points to low effectiveness of influenza vaccines for older people, L Simonsen
Association between economic growth and injury mortality among seniors in colombia, Antonio J. Trujillo, Adnan A. Hyder, and Fernando Ruiz
Does seasonal influenza vaccination increase the risk of illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic virus?, C. Viboud and L. Simonsen
Pregnancy-related mortality in southern Nepal between 2001 and 2006: Independent estimates from a prospective, population-based cohort and a direct sisterhood survey, David W. Wee, Luke C. Mullany, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. Leclerq, and James M. Tielsch
Association between nutritional status and positive childhood disability screening using the ten questions plus tool in Sarlahi, Nepal, L. Wu, J. Katz, L. C. Mullany, E. Haytmanek, S. K. Khatry, G. L. Darmstadt, Jr P. West, S. C. LeClerq, and J. M. Tielsch
Association of pica with anemia and gastrointestinal distress among pregnant women in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Sera L. Young, Sabra S. Khalfan, Tamer H. Farag, Justine A. Kavle, Said M. Ali, Hamad Hajji, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Gretel H. Pelto, James M. Tielsch, and Rebecca J. Stoltzfus