PLoS Medicine (Jul 2018)
Neurodevelopmental disorders in children aged 2-9 years: Population-based burden estimates across five regions in India.
- Narendra K Arora,
- M K C Nair,
- Sheffali Gulati,
- Vaishali Deshmukh,
- Archisman Mohapatra,
- Devendra Mishra,
- Vikram Patel,
- Ravindra M Pandey,
- Bhagabati C Das,
- Gauri Divan,
- G V S Murthy,
- Thakur D Sharma,
- Savita Sapra,
- Satinder Aneja,
- Monica Juneja,
- Sunanda K Reddy,
- Praveen Suman,
- Sharmila B Mukherjee,
- Rajib Dasgupta,
- Poma Tudu,
- Manoja K Das,
- Vinod K Bhutani,
- Maureen S Durkin,
- Jennifer Pinto-Martin,
- Donald H Silberberg,
- Rajesh Sagar,
- Faruqueuddin Ahmed,
- Nandita Babu,
- Sandeep Bavdekar,
- Vijay Chandra,
- Zia Chaudhuri,
- Tanuj Dada,
- Rashna Dass,
- M Gourie-Devi,
- S Remadevi,
- Jagdish C Gupta,
- Kumud K Handa,
- Veena Kalra,
- Sunil Karande,
- Ramesh Konanki,
- Madhuri Kulkarni,
- Rashmi Kumar,
- Arti Maria,
- Muneer A Masoodi,
- Manju Mehta,
- Santosh Kumar Mohanty,
- Harikumaran Nair,
- Poonam Natarajan,
- A K Niswade,
- Atul Prasad,
- Sanjay K Rai,
- Paul S S Russell,
- Rohit Saxena,
- Shobha Sharma,
- Arun K Singh,
- Gautam B Singh,
- Leena Sumaraj,
- Saradha Suresh,
- Alok Thakar,
- Sujatha Parthasarathy,
- Bhadresh Vyas,
- Ansuman Panigrahi,
- Munish K Saroch,
- Rajan Shukla,
- K V Raghava Rao,
- Maria P Silveira,
- Samiksha Singh,
- Vivek Vajaratkar
Affiliations
- Narendra K Arora
- M K C Nair
- Sheffali Gulati
- Vaishali Deshmukh
- Archisman Mohapatra
- Devendra Mishra
- Vikram Patel
- Ravindra M Pandey
- Bhagabati C Das
- Gauri Divan
- G V S Murthy
- Thakur D Sharma
- Savita Sapra
- Satinder Aneja
- Monica Juneja
- Sunanda K Reddy
- Praveen Suman
- Sharmila B Mukherjee
- Rajib Dasgupta
- Poma Tudu
- Manoja K Das
- Vinod K Bhutani
- Maureen S Durkin
- Jennifer Pinto-Martin
- Donald H Silberberg
- Rajesh Sagar
- Faruqueuddin Ahmed
- Nandita Babu
- Sandeep Bavdekar
- Vijay Chandra
- Zia Chaudhuri
- Tanuj Dada
- Rashna Dass
- M Gourie-Devi
- S Remadevi
- Jagdish C Gupta
- Kumud K Handa
- Veena Kalra
- Sunil Karande
- Ramesh Konanki
- Madhuri Kulkarni
- Rashmi Kumar
- Arti Maria
- Muneer A Masoodi
- Manju Mehta
- Santosh Kumar Mohanty
- Harikumaran Nair
- Poonam Natarajan
- A K Niswade
- Atul Prasad
- Sanjay K Rai
- Paul S S Russell
- Rohit Saxena
- Shobha Sharma
- Arun K Singh
- Gautam B Singh
- Leena Sumaraj
- Saradha Suresh
- Alok Thakar
- Sujatha Parthasarathy
- Bhadresh Vyas
- Ansuman Panigrahi
- Munish K Saroch
- Rajan Shukla
- K V Raghava Rao
- Maria P Silveira
- Samiksha Singh
- Vivek Vajaratkar
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002615
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 15,
no. 7
p. e1002615
Abstract
BackgroundNeurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) compromise the development and attainment of full social and economic potential at individual, family, community, and country levels. Paucity of data on NDDs slows down policy and programmatic action in most developing countries despite perceived high burden.Methods and findingsWe assessed 3,964 children (with almost equal number of boys and girls distributed in 2-ConclusionsThe study identifies NDDs in children aged 2-9 years as a significant public health burden for India. HI was higher than and ASD prevalence comparable to the published global literature. Most risk factors of NDDs were modifiable and amenable to public health interventions.
