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A new supplement is now available online: DIGITAL HEALTH AND HEALTH SYSTEMS OF THE FUTURE  Guest editors, Alain Labrique, Lavanya Vasudevan, Ellen Rosskam, Garrett Mehl, and Adnan A. Hyder.  GHSP celebrates its 5-year publication anniversary in 2018. GHSP 2018 In Pakistan, young gi*l students engage in sports to help enhance a positive body image and increase self-confidence. © 2016 Khaula ln India, a community health worker measures a participants blood pressure in the community. 2015 Aditya Khetan, SEHAT Efforts continue—building on work of the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children—to expand use of antenatal corticosteroids in low-resource settings. We argue that until more is known on the balance of benefit versus harm, such Dawn Greensides, Judith Robb-McCord, Angeline Noriega and James A. Litch Countries have put in place some elements necessary for safe and effective antenatal corticosteroid (ACS) use, but significant challenges remain including: ensuring accurate gestational age determination, establishing clear treatment guidelines, strengthening provider capacity, incorporating obstetric indications for ACS use in national essential medicines lists, and collecting and using ACS-related data in the HMIS. Most importantly, the quality of maternal and newborn care, including specialized newborn care, needs improvement to ensure a strong foundation for the safe and effective use of ACS. Rena Eichler, Susan Gigli and Lisa LeRoy Global Health: Science and Practice December 2018, GHSP-D-18-00328; Implementation research enabled stakeholders to formulate questions, as*ess implications of research results that informed changes in regulations and payment at the primary care level, and strengthen monitoring capacity. While the national health insurance system had some impact on performance of primary care facilities, individual providers remained unsatisfied because payment was largely based on factors outside of their control such as tenure and position, rather than their contributions to improved performance.