Publications (selected from 150 – first and corresponding author):

Ma S , Jiang M , Wang F , Hesketh T. Left-Behind Children and Risk of Unintentional Injury in Rural China—A Cross-Sectional Survey[J]. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16(3).

Fellmeth G, Rose-Clarke K, Zhao C, Busert LK, Zheng Y, Massazza A, Sonmez H, Eder B, Blewitt A, Lertgrai W, Orcutt M, Ricci K, Mohamed-Ahmed O, Burns R, Knipe D, Hargreaves S, Hesketh T, Opondo C, Devakumar D. Health impacts of parental migration on left-behind children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Lancet. 2018 Dec 5. pii: S0140-6736(18)32558-3. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32558-3.

Ni YY, Zhou XD, Li L, Hesketh T*. Child Maltreatment in Zhejiang Province of China: The Role of Parental Aggressive Tendency and a History of Maltreatment in Childhood. Child Abuse Review 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2520

Zhao C, Wang F, Zhou X, Jiang MM, Hesketh T*. Impact of migration on psychosocial well-being of children in rural China. Int J Equity in Health 2018;17(1)80 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0795-z

Wang E, Hesketh T* Large reductions in Caesarean delivery rates in China: a qualitative study on delivery decision making in the era of the two child policy.  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017;17(1)405

Published abstracts (Lancet)

Sidibe AM, Hesketh T. Can Chinese medical teams in Africa become more effective? The example of Mali. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)3266

Chen J, Chen XJ, Yan MW, Hesketh T. Ease of access to antibiotics without a prescription in Chinese pharmacies: a nationwide cross-sectional study. Lancet https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)3270

Zhao CY, Zhou XD, Hesketh T. Persistent effects of parental migration on psychosocial well-being of left behind children in two provinces: cross-sectional survey Lancet. 2016 Oct;388 Suppl 1:S6. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31933

Zhou XD, Li L, Yan Z, Hesketh T. High sex ratio as a correlate of depression in Chinese men. J Affect Disord 2013:144(1-2):79-86  

Hesketh T, Zhou XD, Wang Y. The End of the One Child Policy: Lasting implications for China. JAMA 2015;314(24):2619-2

Zeng Y, Hesketh T. Effects of China’s universal Two-Child Policy. Lancet 2016: 388(10054)1930-38

Wang XM, Zhou XD, Hesketh T. Massive misuse of antibiotics by university students in China  Lancet. 2016 Oct;388 Suppl 1:S94. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32021-9.

Hesketh T. Li L, Zhou XD. Health system reform in China: views of health workers and service users. Social Science and Medicine 2014;117:134-41

Hesketh T, Wu D, Mao L, Ma N. Violence against doctors in China BMJ 2012;345:e5730

Hesketh T. Zhu WX. Li L. High sex ratios in China: role of the One Child Policy and sex selective abortion. BMJ 2009 Apr 9;338:b1211. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b1211.

Hesketh T, Ye XJ, Li L, Wang HM. Health status and access to health care for migrant workers in China. Public Health Rep. 2008 123(2):189-197

Li L, Wang HM, Ye XJ, Jiang MM, Lou QY, Hesketh T. The mental health status of Chinese rural-urban migrant workers: comparison with permanent urban and rural dwellers. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol  2007; 42(9):716-22

Hesketh T, Li L, Zhu WX. The Effect of China’s One Child Family Policy after 25 Years. New  England Journal of Medicine 2005; 353(11):1171-6

Qu JD, Hesketh T.  Family size, sex ratio and fertility preferences in the era of the One Child Family Policy: results from the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Survey.  BMJ 2006;333(7564):371-3

Hesketh T, Zhu WX, Zhou XD. Syphilis and social upheaval in China. N Engl J Med. 2010 Sep 9;363(11):1088-9;

Hesketh T, Ye XJ, Li L, Wang HM. Health status and access to health care of migrant workers in China. Public Health Reports 2008;123(2):189-197

Hesketh T, Lu L, Jun YX, Mei WH. Smoking cessation and expenditure in low income Chinese: cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health 2007:7(147):29

Hesketh T.  Abnormal  sex ratios  in human populations: causes and consequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006; 103(36):13271-5

Wu D, Wang Y, Lam KF, Hesketh T.  Health system reforms, violence against doctors and job satisfaction in the medical profession in China. BMJ 2014;4(12):e006431

Hesketh T, Li L,  Ye XJ ,  Wang HM, Jiang MM,  Tomkins A. HIV and syphilis in migrant workers in Eastern China. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2006; 82(1):11-4

Hesketh T, Li L,Ye XJ  HIV and syphilis in Chinese internal migrants. AIDS 2005;19(14):1550-1

Hesketh T, Ding QJ, Tomkins AM. Health and health care seeking behaviour of adolescents in urban and rural China. J Adolesc Health 2003;33(4):271-4

Li L, Xing ZW, Hesketh T. Reform of primary care in China. Lancet 2005; 366 (9480):120-1

HIV and syphilis in young Chinese adults: implications for spread. Int J of STD and HIV 2005;16:262-266

Hesketh T, Huang XM, Wang ZB, Zhu WX,  Cubitt DW, Williams D, Tomkins AM.

Hesketh T, Huang XM, Wang ZB, Xing ZW, Cubitt DW, Tomkins AM. Using the premarital examination for population-based surveillance for HIV in China: a pilot study. AIDS 2003;17(10):1574-6.

Hesketh T, Qu JD, Tomkins A. Smoking in Chinese youths. Am J Pub Health 2001;91:1653-5