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November 2013

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Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother-Infant Pair: A Call for Papers for Year 3 of the Maternal Health Task Force—PLOS Collection
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Since November 2011, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), an initiative based at the Harvard School of Public Health, has collaborated with PLOS to create a freely available, open access collection of outstanding research and commentary on maternal health: the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health.

This month the PLOS Medicine editors and the MHTF announced the theme for the Year 3 Collection (2013-14): “Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother-Infant Pair”.

Image Credit: Original image by Jack Zalium, flickr. Alterations by Richard Basset, PLOS.

Editorial

Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother–Infant Pair: A Call for Papers for Year 3 of the Maternal Health Task Force–PLOS Collection

Kate Mitchell, Mary Nell Wegner, Ana Langer, the PLOS Medicine Editors

PLOS Medicine: published November 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001559

Essay

From Ideals to Tools: Applying Human Rights to Maternal Health

Alicia Ely Yamin

PLOS Medicine: published November 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001546

Perspectives

Same Song, Different Audience: Pharmaceutical Promotion Targeting Non-Physician Health Care Providers

James S. Yeh, Aaron S. Kesselheim

PLOS Medicine: published November 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001560

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Complex Disease Dynamics and the Design of Influenza Vaccination Programs

Steven Riley

PLOS Medicine: published November 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001553

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A Gene Expression Signature for RSV: Clinical Implications and Limitations

Peter J. M. Openshaw

PLOS Medicine: published November 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001550

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  1. Whole Blood Gene Expression Profiles to Assess Pathogenesis and Disease Severity in Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

Health in Action

Changes in Chinese Policies to Promote the Rational Use of Antibiotics

Yonghong Xiao, Jing Zhang, Beiwen Zheng, Lina Zhao, Sujuan Li, Lanjuan Li

PLOS Medicine: published November 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001556

A Brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) Instrument to Improve Patient Care

Jennifer L. Ridgeway, Timothy J. Beebe, Christopher G. Chute, David T. Eton, Lacey A. Hart, Marlene H. Frost, Daniel Jensen, Victor M. Montori, John G. Smith, Steven A. Smith, Angelina D. Tan, Kathleen J. Yost, Jeanette Y. Ziegenfuss, Jeff A. Sloan

PLOS Medicine: published November 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001548

Policy Forums

Harnessing Poverty Alleviation to Reduce the Stigma of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alexander C. Tsai, David R. Bangsberg, Sheri D. Weiser

PLOS Medicine: published November 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001557

Measles Outbreak Response Immunization Is Context-Specific: Insight from the Recent Experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

Andrea Minetti, Cameron Bopp, Florence Fermon, Gwenola François, Rebecca F. Grais, Lise Grout, Northan Hurtado, Francisco J. Luquero, Klaudia Porten, Laurent Sury, Meguerditch Terzian

PLOS Medicine: published November 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544

Guidelines and Guidance

Global Research Priorities to Better Understand the Burden of Iatrogenic Harm in Primary Care: An International Delphi Exercise

Kathrin M. Cresswell, Sukhmeet S. Panesar, Sarah A. Salvilla, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Itziar Larizgoitia, Liam J. Donaldson, David Bates, Aziz Sheikh, on behalf of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Safer Primary Care Expert Working Group

PLOS Medicine: published November 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001554

Research Articles

Global Mortality Estimates for the 2009 Influenza Pandemic from the GLaMOR Project: A Modeling Study

Lone Simonsen, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Roger Lustig, Robert J. Taylor, Douglas M. Fleming, Madelon Kroneman, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Anthony W. Mounts, W. John Paget, the GLaMOR Collaborating Teams

PLOS Medicine: published November 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001558

Interactions between Non-Physician Clinicians and Industry: A Systematic Review

Quinn Grundy, Lisa Bero, Ruth Malone

PLOS Medicine: published November 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001561

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Characterization of Regional Influenza Seasonality Patterns in China and Implications for Vaccination Strategies: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Surveillance Data

Hongjie Yu, Wladimir J. Alonso, Luzhao Feng, Yi Tan, Yuelong Shu, Weizhong Yang, Cécile Viboud

PLOS Medicine: published November 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001552

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When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy in Children Aged 2–5 Years: A Collaborative Causal Modelling Analysis of Cohort Studies from Southern Africa

Michael Schomaker, Matthias Egger, James Ndirangu, Sam Phiri, Harry Moultrie, Karl Technau, Vivian Cox, Janet Giddy, Cleophas Chimbetete, Robin Wood, Thomas Gsponer, Carolyn Bolton Moore, Helena Rabie, Brian Eley, Lulu Muhe, Martina Penazzato, Shaffiq Essajee, Olivia Keiser, Mary-Ann Davies, for the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS–Southern Africa (IeDEA-SA) Collaboration

PLOS Medicine: published November 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001555

Whole Blood Gene Expression Profiles to Assess Pathogenesis and Disease Severity in Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

Asuncion Mejias, Blerta Dimo, Nicolas M. Suarez, Carla Garcia, M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal, Tuomas Jartti, Derek Blankenship, Alejandro Jordan-Villegas, Monica I. Ardura, Zhaohui Xu, Jacques Banchereau, Damien Chaussabel, Octavio Ramilo

PLOS Medicine: published November 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549

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Role of DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Silencing of HAND2 in Endometrial Cancer Development

Allison Jones, Andrew E. Teschendorff, Quanxi Li, Jane D. Hayward, Athilakshmi Kannan, Tim Mould, James West, Michal Zikan, David Cibula, Heidi Fiegl, Shih-Han Lee, Elisabeth Wik, Richard Hadwin, Rupali Arora, Charlotte Lemech, Henna Turunen, Päivi Pakarinen, Ian J. Jacobs, Helga B. Salvesen, Milan K. Bagchi, Indrani C. Bagchi, Martin Widschwendter

PLOS Medicine: published November 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001551

Antenatal Syphilis Screening Using Point-of-Care Testing in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Andreas Kuznik, Mohammed Lamorde, Agnes Nyabigambo, Yukari C. Manabe

PLOS Medicine: published November 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001545

Burden of Depressive Disorders by Country, Sex, Age, and Year: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Alize J. Ferrari, Fiona J. Charlson, Rosana E. Norman, Scott B. Patten, Greg Freedman, Christopher J.L. Murray, Theo Vos, Harvey A. Whiteford

PLOS Medicine: published November 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001547