Journal of Global Health (Jun 2012)
Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from preterm birth and low birth
- Rajiv Bahl Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland,
- Jose Martines ,
- Nita Bhandari ,
- Zrinka Biloglav ,
- Karen Edmond ,
- Sharad Iyengar ,
- Michael Kramer ,
- Joy E. Lawn ,
- D. S. Manandhar ,
- Rintaro Mori ,
- Kathleen M. Rasmussen ,
- H. P. S. Sachdev ,
- Nalini Singhal ,
- Mark Tomlinson ,
- Cesar Victora ,
- Anthony F. Williams ,
- Kit Yee Chan ,
- Igor Rudan
Affiliations
- Rajiv Bahl Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Jose Martines
- Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Nita Bhandari
- Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
- Zrinka Biloglav
- Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Karen Edmond
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Sharad Iyengar
- Action Research & Training for Health, Udaipur, India
- Michael Kramer
- Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada
- Joy E. Lawn
- Saving Newborn Lives – Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa
- D. S. Manandhar
- Mother and Infant Research Activities, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Rintaro Mori
- Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Japan
- Kathleen M. Rasmussen
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- H. P. S. Sachdev
- Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India
- Nalini Singhal
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Canada
- Mark Tomlinson
- Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Cesar Victora
- Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
- Anthony F. Williams
- St George's, University of London, London, UK
- Kit Yee Chan
- Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
- Igor Rudan
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.02.010403
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 2,
no. 1
pp. 56 – 64
Abstract
This paper aims to identify health research priorities that could improve the rate of progress in reducing global neonatal mortality from preterm birth and low birth weight (PB/LBW), as set out in the UN's Millennium Development Goal 4.
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