Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

PR Britto, SJ Lye, K Proulx, AK Yousafzai, SG Matthews… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to
implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the …

Gestational diabetes mellitus and macrosomia: a literature review

K Kc, S Shakya, H Zhang - Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2015 - karger.com
Background: Fetal macrosomia, defined as a birth weight≥ 4,000 g, may affect 12% of
newborns of normal women and 15-45% of newborns of women with gestational diabetes …

Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoea in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of …

C Troeger, BF Blacker, IA Khalil, PC Rao… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
(GBD) 2016 provides an up-to-date analysis of the burden of diarrhoea in 195 countries …

[HTML][HTML] Estimates of global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoeal diseases: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease …

C Troeger, M Forouzanfar, PC Rao, I Khalil… - The Lancet infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
2015 (GBD 2015) provides an up-to-date analysis of the burden of diarrhoeal diseases. This …

Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of lower respiratory tract infections in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the …

C Troeger, M Forouzanfar, PC Rao, I Khalil… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD)
Study 2015 provides an up-to-date analysis of the burden of lower respiratory tract infections …

The epidemiology of global micronutrient deficiencies

RL Bailey, KP West Jr, RE Black - Annals of nutrition and metabolism, 2015 - karger.com
Micronutrients are essential to sustain life and for optimal physiological function.
Widespread global micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs) exist, with pregnant women and their …

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000–13, with projections to inform post-2015 priorities: an updated systematic analysis

L Liu, S Oza, D Hogan, J Perin, I Rudan, JE Lawn… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Trend data for causes of child death are crucial to inform priorities for improving
child survival by and beyond 2015. We report child mortality by cause estimates in 2000–13 …

Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

L Liu, S Oza, D Hogan, Y Chu, J Perin, J Zhu, JE Lawn… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Despite remarkable progress in the improvement of child survival between
1990 and 2015, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 target of a two-thirds reduction …

Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost?

ZA Bhutta, JK Das, R Bahl, JE Lawn, RA Salam… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Progress in newborn survival has been slow, and even more so for reductions in stillbirths.
To meet Every Newborn targets of ten or fewer neonatal deaths and ten or fewer stillbirths …

Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost?

ZA Bhutta, JK Das, A Rizvi, MF Gaffey, N Walker… - The lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Maternal undernutrition contributes to 800 000 neonatal deaths annually through small for
gestational age births; stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies are estimated to …