September 2014

In this month's editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors introduce the PLOS Collection on Monitoring Universal Health Coverage. Organized by WHO and the World Bank, and peer reviewed by independent experts, the Collection explains the essential components of UHC and consists of an overview, five technical papers, and 13 country case studies on progress towards monitoring and evaluation of UCH in each country.

The editorial presents the challenges ahead in implementing, monitoring, and evaluating UHC.

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Editorial

The PLOS “Monitoring Universal Health Coverage” Collection: Managing Expectations

The PLOS Medicine Editors

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001732

Perspectives

Preventing Acute Malnutrition in Young Children: Improving the Evidence for Current and Future Practice

Marko Kerac, Andrew Seal

PLOS Medicine: published September 2, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001715

Convergence of Mortality Rates among Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa and North America

Agnes Binagwaho, Cameron T. Nutt, Placidie Mugwaneza, Claire M. Wagner, Sabin Nsanzimana

PLOS Medicine: published September 9, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001719

Sorting Reality from What We Think We Know About Breast Cancer in Africa

Sulma I. Mohammed, Joe B. Harford

PLOS Medicine: published September 9, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001721

Malaria Prevention during Pregnancy—Is There a Next Step Forward?

Richard W. Steketee

PLOS Medicine: published September 23, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001734

Health in Action

Oral Cholera Vaccine Development and Use in Vietnam

Dang Duc Anh, Anna Lena Lopez, Hung Thi Mai Tran, Nguyen Van Cuong, Vu Dinh Thiem, Mohammad Ali, Jacqueline L. Deen, Lorenz von Seidlein, David A. Sack

PLOS Medicine: published September 2, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001712

Policy Forums

Prioritizing Pregnant Women for Long-Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets through Antenatal Care Clinics

Jenny Hill, Jenna Hoyt, Anna Maria van Eijk, Feiko O. ter Kuile, Jayne Webster, Richard W. Steketee

PLOS Medicine: published September 9, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001717

Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Coercion: Global Barriers to Women's Reproductive Control

Jay G. Silverman, Anita Raj

PLOS Medicine: published September 16, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001723

Global Financing and Long-Term Technical Assistance for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Scaling Up Access to Treatment

Thomas J. Hwang, Salmaan Keshavjee

PLOS Medicine: published September 30, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001738

Collection Reviews

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Chile

Ximena Aguilera, Carla Castillo-Laborde, Manuel Nájera-De Ferrari, Iris Delgado, Ciro Ibañez

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001676

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Estonia

Taavi Lai, Triin Habicht, Maris Jesse

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001677

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in South Africa

John E. Ataguba, Candy Day, Di McIntyre

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001686

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Ghana

Frank Nyonator, Anthony Ofosu, Mabel Segbafah, Selassi d'Almeida

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001691

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil

Mauricio L. Barreto, Davide Rasella, Daiane B. Machado, Rosana Aquino, Diana Lima, Leila P. Garcia, Alexandra C. Boing, Jackson Santos, Juan Escalante, Estela M. L. Aquino, Claudia Travassos

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001692

Beyond UHC: Monitoring Health and Social Protection Coverage in the Context of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention

Knut Lönnroth, Philippe Glaziou, Diana Weil, Katherine Floyd, Mukund Uplekar, Mario Raviglione

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001693

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in China

Qingyue Meng, Ling Xu

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001694

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Singapore

Kelvin Bryan Tan, Woan Shin Tan, Marcel Bilger, Calvin W. L. Ho

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001695

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia

Abebe Alebachew, Laurel Hatt, Matthew Kukla

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001696

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in India

Narayanan Devadasan, Soumitra Ghosh, Sunil Nandraj, T. Sundararaman

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001697

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania

Gemini Mtei, Suzan Makawia, Honorati Masanja

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001698

Financial Risk Protection and Universal Health Coverage: Evidence and Measurement Challenges

Priyanka Saksena, Justine Hsu, David B. Evans

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001701

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

Tanvir Huda, Jahangir A. M. Khan, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Kanta Jamil, Shams El Arifeen

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001722

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Thailand

Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Supon Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Jadej Thammatacharee

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001726

Equity-Oriented Monitoring in the Context of Universal Health Coverage

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Theadora Koller, Amit Prasad, Anne Schlotheuber, Nicole Valentine, John Lynch, Jeanette Vega

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001727

Monitoring Intervention Coverage in the Context of Universal Health Coverage

Ties Boerma, Carla AbouZahr, David Evans, Tim Evans

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001728

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Tunisia

Mohamed Kouni Chahed, Chokri Arfa

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001729

Effective Coverage: A Metric for Monitoring Universal Health Coverage

Marie Ng, Nancy Fullman, Joseph L. Dieleman, Abraham D. Flaxman, Christopher J. L. Murray, Stephen S. Lim

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001730

Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage at Country and Global Levels

Ties Boerma, Patrick Eozenou, David Evans, Tim Evans, Marie-Paule Kieny, Adam Wagstaff

PLOS Medicine: published September 22, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001731

Research Articles

Regular Breakfast Consumption and Type 2 Diabetes Risk Markers in 9- to 10-Year-Old Children in the Child Heart and Health Study in England (CHASE): A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Angela S. Donin, Claire M. Nightingale, Chris G. Owen, Alicja R. Rudnicka, Michael R. Perkin, Susan A. Jebb, Alison M. Stephen, Naveed Sattar, Derek G. Cook, Peter H. Whincup

PLOS Medicine: published September 2, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001703

Preventing Acute Malnutrition among Young Children in Crises: A Prospective Intervention Study in Niger

Céline Langendorf, Thomas Roederer, Saskia de Pee, Denise Brown, Stéphane Doyon, Abdoul-Aziz Mamaty, Lynda W.-M. Touré, Mahamane L. Manzo, Rebecca F. Grais

PLOS Medicine: published September 2, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001714

Mortality in Patients with HIV-1 Infection Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa, Europe, or North America: A Collaborative Analysis of Prospective Studies

Andrew Boulle, Michael Schomaker, Margaret T. May, Robert S. Hogg, Bryan E. Shepherd, Susana Monge, Olivia Keiser, Fiona C. Lampe, Janet Giddy, James Ndirangu, Daniela Garone, Matthew Fox, Suzanne M. Ingle, Peter Reiss, Francois Dabis, Dominique Costagliola, Antonella Castagna, Kathrin Ehren, Colin Campbell, M. John Gill, Michael Saag, Amy C. Justice, Jodie Guest, Heidi M. Crane, Matthias Egger, Jonathan A. C. Sterne

PLOS Medicine: published September 9, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001718

Receptor-Defined Subtypes of Breast Cancer in Indigenous Populations in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Amanda Eng, Valerie McCormack, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva

PLOS Medicine: published September 9, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001720

Genetic Predisposition to Increased Blood Cholesterol and Triglyceride Lipid Levels and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis

Petroula Proitsi, Michelle K. Lupton, Latha Velayudhan, Stephen Newhouse, Isabella Fogh, Magda Tsolaki, Makrina Daniilidou, Megan Pritchard, Iwona Kloszewska, Hilkka Soininen, Patrizia Mecocci, Bruno Vellas, for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Julie Williams, for the GERAD1 Consortium, Robert Stewart, Pak Sham, Simon Lovestone, John F. Powell

PLOS Medicine: published September 16, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001713

WHO Essential Medicines Policies and Use in Developing and Transitional Countries: An Analysis of Reported Policy Implementation and Medicines Use Surveys

Kathleen Anne Holloway, David Henry

PLOS Medicine: published September 16, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001724

The Clinical and Economic Impact of Point-of-Care CD4 Testing in Mozambique and Other Resource-Limited Settings: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Emily P. Hyle, Ilesh V. Jani, Jonathan Lehe, Amanda E. Su, Robin Wood, Jorge Quevedo, Elena Losina, Ingrid V. Bassett, Pamela P. Pei, A. David Paltiel, Stephen Resch, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Trevor Peter, Rochelle P. Walensky

PLOS Medicine: published September 16, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001725

Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy with Mefloquine in HIV-Negative Women: A Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial

Raquel González, Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma, Smaïla Ouédraogo, Mwaka A. Kakolwa, Salim Abdulla, Manfred Accrombessi, John J. Aponte, Daisy Akerey-Diop, Arti Basra, Valérie Briand, Meskure Capan, Michel Cot, Abdunoor M. Kabanywanyi, Christian Kleine, Peter G. Kremsner, Eusebio Macete, Jean-Rodolphe Mackanga, Achille Massougbodgi, Alfredo Mayor, Arsenio Nhacolo, Golbahar Pahlavan, Michael Ramharter, María Rupérez, Esperança Sevene, Anifa Vala, Rella Zoleko-Manego, Clara Menéndez

PLOS Medicine: published September 23, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001733

Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy with Mefloquine in HIV-Infected Women Receiving Cotrimoxazole Prophylaxis: A Multicenter Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial

Raquel González, Meghna Desai, Eusebio Macete, Peter Ouma, Mwaka A. Kakolwa, Salim Abdulla, John J. Aponte, Helder Bulo, Abdunoor M. Kabanywanyi, Abraham Katana, Sonia Maculuve, Alfredo Mayor, Arsenio Nhacolo, Kephas Otieno, Golbahar Pahlavan, María Rupérez, Esperança Sevene, Laurence Slutsker, Anifa Vala, John Williamsom, Clara Menéndez

PLOS Medicine: published September 23, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001735

Proton Pump Inhibitors and Hospitalization with Hypomagnesemia: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

Jonathan Zipursky, Erin M. Macdonald, Simon Hollands, Tara Gomes, Muhammad M. Mamdani, J. Michael Paterson, Nina Lathia, David N. Juurlink

PLOS Medicine: published September 30, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001736

Readmissions after Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia among Young and Middle-Aged Adults: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study

Isuru Ranasinghe, Yongfei Wang, Kumar Dharmarajan, Angela F. Hsieh, Susannah M. Bernheim, Harlan M. Krumholz

PLOS Medicine: published September 30, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001737

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