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Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016
BACKGROUND Mother-infant separation postbirth is common in Western culture. Early skin-to-skin contact (SSC) begins ideally at birth and involves placing the naked baby, covered across the back with a warm blanket, prone on the mother's bare chest ...
E. Moore, N. Bergman, G. Anderson, Nancy Medley   +3 more
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“Poverty is the big thing”: exploring financial, transportation, and opportunity costs associated with fistula management and repair in Nigeria and Uganda

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Background Women living with obstetric fistula often live in poverty and in remote areas far from hospitals offering surgical repair. These women and their families face a range of costs while accessing fistula repair, some of which include: management ...
Kaji Tamanna Keya, Pooja Sripad, Emmanuel Nwala, Charlotte E. Warren   +3 more
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Impact of the Nursing Home Visit to the newborn/ infant/family [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: To identify the impact of the home visit to the newborn/infant/family, when performed by nurses, on the health and well-being of the child and family.
Branca, Vera, Calado, Gabriela
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Targeting human milk fortification to improve very preterm infant growth and brain development: study protocol for Nourish, a single-center randomized, controlled clinical trial

BMC Pediatrics, 2021
Background Human milk is recommended for very preterm infants, but its variable macronutrient content may contribute to undernutrition during a critical period in development.
Mandy B. Belfort, Lianne J. Woodward, Sara Cherkerzian, Hunter Pepin, Deirdre Ellard, Tina Steele, Christoph Fusch, P. Ellen Grant, Terrie E. Inder   +8 more
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Effects of community participation on improving uptake of skilled care for maternal and newborn health: a systematic review. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Despite a broad consensus that communities should be actively involved in improving their own health, evidence for the effect of community participation on specific health outcomes is limited.
Marston, Cicely, McGowan, CR, Portela, Anayda, Renedo, Alicia   +3 more
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Oxygen radical disease in the newborn, revisited: Oxidative stress and disease in the newborn period.

Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 2019
Thirty years ago, there was an emerging appreciation for the significance of oxidative stress in newborn disease. This prompted a renewed interest in the impact of oxygen therapy for the newborn in the delivery room and beyond, especially in premature ...
Marta Perez, M. Robbins, Cecilie Revhaug, O. Saugstad   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Activating newborn neurons suppresses depression and anxiety-like behaviors

Nature Communications, 2019
The etiology of major depressive disorder (MDD), the leading cause of worldwide disability, is unknown. The neurogenic hypothesis proposes that MDD is linked to impairments of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG), while the effects of
Elif Tunc-Ozcan, C. Peng, Yiwen Zhu, S. Dunlop, A. Contractor, J. Kessler   +5 more
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SUMA Technology and Newborn Screening Tests for Inherited Metabolic Diseases in Cuba

Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening, 2016
The ultramicroanalytic system (SUMA), created in the 1980s, is a complete system of reagents and instrumentation to perform ultramicroassays combining the sensitivity of the micro-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests with the use of ...
Ernesto Carlos González Reyes PhD, Elisa M. Castells MSc, Amarilys Frómeta MSc, Ana Luisa Arteaga MD, Lesley Del Río MSc, Yileidis Tejeda MSc, Pedro L. Pérez LT, Mary Triny Segura BSc, Pedro Almenares MSc, Yenitse Perea MSc, Niurka M. Carlos MSc, René Robaina MD, PhD, José L. Fernández-Yero MD, PhD   +12 more
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The effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and child health in low- and middle-income countries:Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2014
Rates of maternal, newborn and child (MNCH) mortality and morbidity are vastly greater in low– than in high–income countries and represent a major source of global health inequity.
Begg, Black, Chib, Dudley, Egger, Free, Free, Kerber, Labrique, Lund, Mwaniki, Noordam, Pande, Perry, Ronsmans, Tamrat, Tomlinson, Van Malderen, Wulf   +18 more
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Involving men to improve maternal and newborn health: A systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions

PLoS ONE, 2018
Background Emerging evidence and program experience indicate that engaging men in maternal and newborn health can have considerable health benefits for women and children in low- and middle-income countries.

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