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Editorial

Maternal Health Is Women's Health: A Call for Papers for Year 2 of the Maternal Health Task Force–PLOS Collection

Samantha R. Lattof, Mary Nell Wegner, Ana Langer, the PLOS Medicine Editors

 

The PLoS Medicine Debates

The Case for a Smoker's License

Simon Chapman

The Case against a Smoker's License

Jeff Collin

 

Perspectives

New Translational Research Provides Insights into Liver Dysfunction in Sepsis

John C. Marshall

Screening for Chronic Kidney Disease: Preventing Harm or Harming the Healthy?

Maarten W. Taal

 

Policy Forums

New Signal Functions to Measure the Ability of Health Facilities to Provide Routine and Emergency Newborn Care

Sabine Gabrysch, Giulia Civitelli, Karen M. Edmond, Matthews Mathai, Moazzam Ali, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Oona M. R. Campbell

Chinese-Style Decentralization and Health System Reform

David Hipgrave, Sufang Guo, Yan Mu, Yan Guo, Fei Yan, Robert Scherpbier, Hana Brixi

 

Guidelines and Guidance

The Ottawa Statement on the Ethical Design and Conduct of Cluster Randomized Trials

Charles Weijer, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Martin P. Eccles, Andrew D. McRae, Angela White, Jamie C. Brehaut, Monica Taljaard, Ottawa Ethics of Cluster Randomized Trials Consensus Group

 

Research Articles

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Daniel E. Winetsky, Diana M. Negoescu, Emilia H. DeMarchis, Olga Almukhamedova, Aizhan Dooronbekova, Dilshod Pulatov, Natalia Vezhnina, Douglas K. Owens, Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

Population Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Tuberculosis Diagnosis with Xpert MTB/RIF: A Dynamic Simulation and Economic Evaluation

Nicolas A. Menzies, Ted Cohen, Hsien-Ho Lin, Megan Murray, Joshua A. Salomon

G6PD Deficiency Prevalence and Estimates of Affected Populations in Malaria Endemic Countries: A Geostatistical Model-Based Map

Rosalind E. Howes, Frédéric B. Piel, Anand P. Patil, Oscar A. Nyangiri, Peter W. Gething, Mewahyu Dewi, Mariana M. Hogg, Katherine E. Battle, Carmencita D. Padilla, J. Kevin Baird, Simon I. Hay

Liver Dysfunction and Phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase Signalling in Early Sepsis: Experimental Studies in Rodent Models of Peritonitis

Peter Recknagel, Falk A. Gonnert, Martin Westermann, Sandro Lambeck, Amelie Lupp, Alain Rudiger, Alex Dyson, Jane E. Carré, Andreas Kortgen, Christoph Krafft, Jürgen Popp, Christoph Sponholz, Valentin Fuhrmann, Ingrid Hilger, Ralf A. Claus, Niels C. Riedemann, Reinhard Wetzker, Mervyn Singer, Michael Trauner, Michael Bauer

Risk Models to Predict Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Progression: A Systematic Review

Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Andre P. Kengne

The Brazil SimSmoke Policy Simulation Model: The Effect of Strong Tobacco Control Policies on Smoking Prevalence and Smoking-Attributable Deaths in a Middle Income Nation

David Levy, Liz Maria de Almeida, Andre Szklo

The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Rosana E. Norman, Munkhtsetseg Byambaa, Rumna De, Alexander Butchart, James Scott, Theo Vos

Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis

Steven C. Moore, Alpa V. Patel, Charles E. Matthews, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, Yikyung Park, Hormuzd A. Katki, Martha S. Linet, Elisabete Weiderpass, Kala Visvanathan, Kathy J. Helzlsouer, Michael Thun, Susan M. Gapstur, Patricia Hartge, I-Min Lee