July 7, 2013: Born Too Small: National and regional estimates of babies born small for gestational age. Healthy Newborn Network Blog on new article in Lancet Global Health
June 25, 2013: Introducing the Lancet Global Health
May 7: Why Should We Care...
The Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) was established in 2001 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide external technical guidance and global leadership in the development and improvement of epidemiological estimates for children under five years of age. It...
Intervention effectiveness to reduce maternal/child mortality
As part of the current CHERG, working groups have been formed to do systematic reviews of effectiveness and efficacy of various maternal and child health interventions. These groups are building on reviews that were...
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Reference
Lamberti LM, Fischer Walker CL, Noiman A, Victora C, Black RE. Breastfeeding and the risk for diarrhea morbidity and mortality. BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 3): S15.
Background
Despite evidence supporting the positive and...
Child Causes of Death Annual Estimates by Country, 2000-2010 (Excel file)
Source: Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 11 May 2012. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60560-1
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Boschi-Pinto C, Lanata C, Black R. The Global Burden of Childhood Diarrhoea. In: Ehriri JE & Martin Meremikwu (eds.). International Maternal & Child Health. Springer Publishers, Washington DC.
O’Brien KL, Wolfson LJ, Watt JP, Henkle E, Deloria-Knoll M, McCall...
Measurement of intervention coverage
Although UNICEF and other partners have invested heavily in efforts to track coverage levels for effective maternal, newborn and child (MNC) survival and nutrition interventions methodological weaknesses in current efforts to measure coverage, and especially coverage...
Enhance the LiST methodology
BMC Public Health: The Lives Saved Tool in 2013: new capabilities and applications, Volume 13 Supplement 3
BMC Public Health LiST Supplement 2011
New LiST Interactive Training Tool Now Online
New Resource: Intervention Effect Estimate Summaries
Supported by another grant from The...
Indoor and outdoor air pollution
Indoor air pollution (IAP) from biomass and coal fuels affects one half of the world population, and about 80% in low-income countries of Africa and South Asia. More than 900 million of the world’s estimated...
Failures in the “pathways to survival”
Knowledge of the biological causes of child death is important, but additional information on failures at household, community and health system levels to avert death is critical to improving programs to reduce mortality. Effective...
