Safety, effectiveness and barriers to follow-up using an 'early discharge' Kangaroo Care policy in a resource poor settingHannah Blencowe
College of Medicine of Malawi, Paediatric Department, P Bag 360, Blantyre, Malawi
J Trop Pediatr 55:244-8. 2009
..To describe the outcomes of low-birth-weight babies using an 'early discharge' Kangaroo care policy and to identify barriers to their follow-up...
- Addressing the challenge of neonatal mortality
H Blencowe
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Trop Med Int Health 18:303-12. 2013
..Effective action is possible to reduce neonatal mortality, but innovative approaches to implementation will be required if these preventable deaths are to be avoided...
Care during labor and birth for the prevention of intrapartum-related neonatal deaths: a systematic review and Delphi estimation of mortality effectAnne C C Lee
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
BMC Public Health 11:S10. 2011
..Our objective was to estimate the effect of various childbirth care packages on neonatal mortality due to intrapartum-related events ("birth asphyxia") in term babies for use in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)...
- Lives Saved Tool supplement detection and treatment of syphilis in pregnancy to reduce syphilis related stillbirths and neonatal mortality
Hannah Blencowe
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
BMC Public Health 11:S9. 2011
..Globally syphilis is an important yet preventable cause of stillbirth, neonatal mortality and morbidity...
- Clean birth and postnatal care practices to reduce neonatal deaths from sepsis and tetanus: a systematic review and Delphi estimation of mortality effect
Hannah Blencowe
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
BMC Public Health 11:S11. 2011
..Annually over 520,000 newborns die from neonatal sepsis, and 60,000 more from tetanus. Estimates of the effect of clean birth and postnatal care practices are required for evidence-based program planning...
- Folic acid to reduce neonatal mortality from neural tube disorders
Hannah Blencowe
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 39:i110-21. 2010
..The burden of NTDs in low-income countries and the effectiveness of folic acid fortification/supplementation are unclear...
- National, regional, and worldwide estimates of preterm birth rates in the year 2010 with time trends since 1990 for selected countries: a systematic analysis and implications
Hannah Blencowe
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 379:2162-72. 2012
..We report worldwide, regional, and national estimates of preterm birth rates for 184 countries in 2010 with time trends for selected countries, and provide a quantitative assessment of the uncertainty surrounding these estimates...
- Antibiotics for pre-term pre-labour rupture of membranes: prevention of neonatal deaths due to complications of pre-term birth and infection
Simon Cousens
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 39:i134-43. 2010
..In low and middle-income settings, where some 2 million neonatal deaths occur annually due to complications of pre-term birth or infection, many women do not receive antibiotic therapy for pPROM...
- Improved assessment of child nutritional status using target weights and a novel, low-cost, weight-for-height slide chart
Marko Kerac
Department of Pediatric, UCL Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Trop Doct 39:23-6. 2009
..We also describe a target weight system for monitoring children's progress towards nutritional recovery...
- Tetanus toxoid immunization to reduce mortality from neonatal tetanus
Hannah Blencowe
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 39:i102-9. 2010
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- Prevalence of wasting among under 6-month-old infants in developing countries and implications of new case definitions using WHO growth standards: a secondary data analysis
Marko Kerac
Centre for International Health and Development, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 96:1008-13. 2011
..To determine wasting prevalence among infants aged under 6 months and describe the effects of new case definitions based on WHO growth standards...
- National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates in 2009 with trends since 1995: a systematic analysis
Simon Cousens
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 377:1319-30. 2011
..We aimed to develop more reliable estimates and a time series from 1995 for 193 countries, by increasing input data, using recent data, and applying improved modelling approaches...
- Comparison of previous and present World Health Organization clinical staging criteria in HIV-infected Malawian children
Goenke Poerksen
Department of Paediatrics, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
AIDS 23:1913-6. 2009
..6%) children were eligible for ART when using the old WHO criteria. This signifies a marked rise in the number of paediatric patients qualifying for ART on clinical grounds...
