The Milbank Quarterly
A Multidisciplinary Journal of Population Health and Health Policy
September 2017  Volume 95, Issue 3  Pages 447–682

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/milq.2017.95.issue-3/issuetoc
Op-Eds
The World Health Organization’s Ninth Director-General: The Leadership of Tedros Adhanom (pages 457–461)
LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN
Version of Record online: 21 JUN 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12269

New England Journal of Medicine
November 2, 2017  Vol. 377 No. 18
http://www.nejm.org/toc/nejm/medical-journal

Perspective
A Renewed Focus on Maternal Health in the United States
R.L. Molina and L.E. Pace
[Excerpt]
…Maternal mortality is usually defined as the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days after delivery when the cause is directly or indirectly related to pregnancy. The maternal mortality ratio in the United States (28 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013) is low compared with the average ratio in low-income regions (230 deaths per 100,000 live births).2 However, it has more than doubled since 1990 (see graph). Maternal Mortality in the United States, 1990–2013.) and is higher than the maternal mortality ratio in most high-income countries; Canada, for example, had 11 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013.2 Furthermore, most high-income countries have seen maternal mortality decrease in recent years. High maternal mortality in the United States as compared with other high-income countries and the continuing upward trend highlight gaps in our care for reproductive-age women that are particularly worrisome in light of some lawmakers’ recent efforts to reduce access to health insurance and reproductive health care….

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
http://www.plosntds.org/
(Accessed 4 November 2017)
Research Article

After the epidemic: Zika virus projections for Latin America and the Caribbean
Felipe J. Colón-González, Carlos A. Peres, Christine Steiner São Bernardo, Paul R. Hunter, Iain R. Lake
| published 01 Nov 2017 PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006007

Research Article
A multi-country study of the economic burden of dengue fever: Vietnam, Thailand, and Colombia
Jung-Seok Lee, Vittal Mogasale, Jacqueline K. Lim, Mabel Carabali, Kang-Sung Lee, Chukiat Sirivichayakul, Duc Anh Dang, Diana Cristina Palencia-Florez, Thi Hien Anh Nguyen, Arthorn Riewpaiboon, Pornthep Chanthavanich, Luis Villar, Brian A. Maskery, Andrew Farlow
| published 30 Oct 2017 PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006037

PLoS One
http://www.plosone.org/

Health impact and cost-effectiveness of a domestically-produced rotavirus vaccine in India: A model based analysis
Johnie Rose, Laura Homa, Sharon B. Meropol, Sara M. Debanne, Roger Bielefeld, Claudia Hoyen, Mendel E. Singer
| published 03 Nov 2017 PLOS ONE
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187446

Catch-up HPV vaccination status of adolescents in relation to socioeconomic factors, individual beliefs and sexual behaviour
Maria Grandahl, Margareta Larsson, Tina Dalianis, Christina Stenhammar, Tanja Tydén, Ragnar Westerling, Tryggve Nevéus
Research Article | published 03 Nov 2017 PLOS ONE
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187193

The impact of antenatal care, iron–folic acid supplementation and tetanus toxoid vaccination during pregnancy on child mortality in Bangladesh
Tanvir Abir, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Garry John Stevens, Andrew Nicolas Page, Abul Hasnat Milton, Kingsley Emwinyore Agho
Research Article | published 01 Nov 2017 PLOS ONE
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187090

Human-centred design in global health: A scoping review of applications and contexts
Alessandra N. Bazzano, Jane Martin, Elaine Hicks, Maille Faughnan, Laura Murphy
Research Article | published 01 Nov 2017 PLOS ONE
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186744
Abstract
Health and wellbeing are determined by a number of complex, interrelated factors. The application of design thinking to questions around health may prove valuable and complement existing approaches. A number of public health projects utilizing human centered design (HCD), or design thinking, have recently emerged, but no synthesis of the literature around these exists. The results of a scoping review of current research on human centered design for health outcomes are presented. The review aimed to understand why and how HCD can be valuable in the contexts of health-related research. Results identified pertinent literature as well as gaps in information on the use of HCD for public health research, design, implementation and evaluation. A variety of contexts were identified in which design has been used for health. Global health and design thinking have different underlying conceptual models and terminology, creating some inherent tensions, which could be overcome through clear communication and documentation in collaborative projects. The review concludes with lessons learned from the review on how future projects can better integrate design thinking with global health research.

The full benefits of adult pneumococcal vaccination: A systematic review
Elizabeth T. Cafiero-Fonseca, Andrew Stawasz, Sydney T. Johnson, Reiko Sato, David E. Bloom
Research Article | published 31 Oct 2017 PLOS ONE
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186903

Public Health Ethics
Volume 10, Issue 3  November 2017
http://phe.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

Vaccine Exemption Policies – A Discussion
Improving Nonmedical Vaccine Exemption Policies: Three Case Studies
Mark Christopher Navin; Mark Aaron Largent
Public Health Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 3, 1 November 2017, Pages 225–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phw047

Liberty, Fairness and the ‘Contribution Model’ for Non-medical Vaccine Exemption Policies: A Reply to Navin and Largent
Alberto Giubilini; Thomas Douglas; Julian Savulescu
Public Health Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 3, 1 November 2017, Pages 235–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phx014

Prioritizing Parental Liberty in Non-medical Vaccine Exemption Policies: A Response to Giubilini, Douglas and Savulescu
Mark C Navin; Mark A Largent
Public Health Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 3, 1 November 2017, Pages 241–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phx015

Qualitative Health Research
Volume 27, Issue 13, November 2017
http://qhr.sagepub.com/content/current
Special Issue: Medicines & Medications

Socialization, Indifference, and Convenience: Exploring the Uptake of Influenza Vaccine Among Medical Students and Early Career Doctors
Rhiannon Edge, Dawn Goodwin, Rachel Isba, Thomas Keegan
First Published July 24, 2017; pp. 1982–1993

Tropical Medicine & International Health
November 2017   Volume 22, Issue 11  Pages 1361–1462
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tmi.2017.22.issue-11/issuetoc

Original Research Papers
Authorship in paediatric research conducted in low- and middle-income countries: parity or parasitism? (pages 1362–1370)
Chris A. Rees, Heather Lukolyo, Elizabeth M. Keating, Kirk A. Dearden, Samuel A. Luboga, Gordon E. Schutze and Peter N. Kazembe
Version of Record online: 20 SEP 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12966
Abstract
Objectives
Interest in global health has increased greatly in the past two decades. Concomitantly, the number and complexity of research partnerships between high-income (HIC) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has grown. We aimed to determine whether there is authorship parity (equitable representation and author order) or parasitism (no authors from study countries) in paediatric research conducted in LMICs.
Methods
We reviewed all articles published from 2006 to 2015 in the four paediatric journals with the highest Eigenfactor scores. We limited our review to articles from LMICs and abstracted information on author affiliation and order, funding source and study design. We calculated Student’s t-tests and chi-square using Fisher’s exact test with Monte Carlo estimates.
Results
There were 24 169 articles published during the study period, and 1243 met inclusion criteria. Of those, 95.9% (n = 1,192) included at least one author affiliated with a LMIC. Among multicountry studies (n = 165), 40.4% did not include authors from every LMIC involved. Of the 9876 authors, most were affiliated with institutions from upper-middle-income countries (41.7%) and HICs (32.7%), with far fewer affiliated with lower middle-income (15.5%) and low-income countries (5.4%) (P < 0.001). In articles from low-income countries, first and last authors from HICs were more common than authors with low-income country affiliations (P < 0.001).
Conclusions
Authorship parasitism was rare overall but common in multicountry studies. In studies conducted in low-income countries, HIC authors more commonly occupied first and last author positions than authors from the study countries. Where LMIC authors make substantial contributions, researchers should strive for authorship parity.

Media/Policy Watch

This watch section is intended to alert readers to substantive news, analysis and opinion from the general media and selected think tanks and similar organizations on vaccines, immunization, global public health and related themes. Media Watch is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicative of themes and issues CVEP is actively tracking. This section will grow from an initial base of newspapers, magazines and blog sources, and is segregated from Journal Watch above which scans the peer-reviewed journal ecology.

We acknowledge the Western/Northern bias in this initial selection of titles and invite suggestions for expanded coverage. We are conservative in our outlook in adding news sources which largely report on primary content we are already covering above. Many electronic media sources have tiered, fee-based subscription models for access. We will provide full-text where content is published without restriction, but most publications require registration and some subscription level.
 
Foreign Affairs
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
Accessed 4 November 2017
Foreign Aid  
Blockchain and Global Health
How the Technology Could Cut Waste and Reduce Fraud
Brian M. Till, Salim Afshar, Alex W. Peters, and John G. Meara

Foreign Policy
http://foreignpolicy.com/
Accessed 4 November 2017
Yemen’s Man-Made Cholera Outbreak Is About to Break a Record
In Haiti, it took seven years for the number of cholera cases to surpass 800,000. In Yemen, it’s taken several months.
The Cable |
Dan De Luce