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Children, 2023 There is widespread agreement that improved health should be regarded as a means and an end in the context of the development process. The health of the populace and the equitable provision of healthcare are two indicators of a society’s level of ...
Muhammad Farhan Asif +5 more
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Polygamy and child mortality: Historical and modern evidence from Nigeria’s Igbo
, 2018 We use historical and modern data on the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria to assess the relationship between polygamy and child mortality. We examine several possible channels for this correlation, and test its sensitivity to observable characteristics of ...
V. Arthi, James Fenske
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Alexander disease (AxD) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder caused by gain‐of‐function mutations in the gene for GFAP, which lead to protein aggregation and a primary astrocytopathy. Symptoms vary, but failure to thrive (FTT) and frequent emesis are common and cause significant morbidity. Here we investigate GDF15, a member of the
Tracy L. Hagemann +6 more
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2014 Objectives: Infant mortality rates (IMR) and under‐five mortality rates (U5MR) in Tuvalu (2010 population 11,149) for 1990–2011 were evaluated to determine best estimates of levels and trends.
Richard Taylor +3 more
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Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2017 The article is devoted to morphology of child burials of the Early Sarmatian time in the Lower Volga region, which have been studied on the basis of five burial mounds –Berezhnovka, Kalinovka, Kovalevka, Pervomaysky, Peregruznoe I.
Mariya A. Balabanova
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Child mortality estimation: appropriate time periods for child mortality estimates from full birth histories. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2012 BACKGROUND: Child mortality estimates from complete birth histories from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) surveys and similar surveys are a chief source of data used to track Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims for a reduction of under-five ...
Jon Pedersen, Jing Liu
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Scoliosis Surgery in a Patient With Advanced Friedreich's Ataxia—It Is Not Too Late
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Friedreich's ataxia is a multisystem disorder with scoliosis being the most common non‐neurological manifestation. While scoliosis surgery is typically performed in adolescent, ambulatory patients, few data exist on surgical outcomes in patients with advanced disease.
Kathrin Reetz +20 more
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Atmosphere, 2018 Exposure to air pollution is associated with adverse health outcomes. However, the health burden related to ambient outdoor air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa remains unclear.
Thaddaeus Egondi +4 more
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Demographic Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2019 The demographic transition is a global phenomenon but sub-Saharan Africa is several decades late. The quantitative characteristics of the region are well known, but they are insufficient to explain the lags even though sub-Saharan Africa is rightly taken
IVANOV Sergey Felixovich
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Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2018 Child mortality is a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa and is influenced by nutritional status. A conceptual framework was proposed to explain factors related to undernutrition. Previously proposed conceptual frameworks for undernutrition
C. Ricci +5 more
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