TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - i LP - i DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2020-318881 VL - 105 IS - 3 AU - Nick Brown Y1 - 2020/03/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/105/3/i.abstract N2 - Putting one’s head above the parapet is a term synonymous with ‘guts’: risking exposure, opprobrium and exclusion it is particularly germane in the scientific world when the middle of the road approach (‘more research is needed’) is safer. Each of these pieces took guts and as a result, each is stronger and more informative.Intimate partner violenceSadly, exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) direct or witnessed in the home is ubiquitous. Nakphong uses Demographic and Health Survey (DSS data) to assess the effect size of IPV on subsequent reported common childhood illness in Cambodia. Children of mothers with reporting of any type of IPV were significantly more likely to have had in diarrhoea (adjusted OR (aOR)=1.65), acute respiratory infection (aOR=1.78) and fever (aOR=1.51) in the two weeks before interview. The pathways here are complex, but, even allowing for potential reporting biases the findings are in keeping with the well-known central, immune suppressing effects of psychological stress and issue inherent to many spokes of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) equally relevant in High Income Countries as Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia. See pages 223 … ER -