Preterm birth and the school years [PDF]
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2015 This commentary is on the original article by Johnson et al. on pages 571–577 in this issue.
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DREAM: Empowering Preclinical Medical Students With Labor Support
MedEdPORTAL, 2018 Introduction Delivery Resources, Experiences, and Advocacy for Moms (DREAM) is an interprofessional service-learning program that empowers preclinical medical students by training them to provide labor support.
Hannah Shakartzi +9 more
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How can consultant-led childbirth care at time of delivery be maximised? A modelling study
BMJ Open, 2020 Objective The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has advised that consolidation of birth centres, where reasonable, into birth centres of at least 6000 admissions per year should allow constant consultant presence.
Martin Pitt +3 more
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Birth spacing and child mortality: an analysis of prospective data from the Nairobi urban health and demographic surveillance system. [PDF]
, 2013 The majority of studies of the birth spacing-child survival relationship rely on retrospective data, which are vulnerable to errors that might bias results.
Mutua, Michael +4 more
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Non-genetic effects on growth characteristics of Brahman cattle [PDF]
Revista Mvz Cordoba, 2015 Objective. To determine how some non-genetic factors influence weights at birth (BW), weaning (WW) and yearling (YW) of Brahman calves. Materials and methods.
Nicacia Hernández-Hernández +6 more
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Adolescent Self-Organization and Adult Smoking and Drinking over Fifty Years of Follow-Up:The British 1946 Birth Cohort [PDF]
, 2016 Variations in markers of adolescent self-organization predict a range of economic and health-related outcomes in general population studies. Using a population-based birth cohort study we investigated associations between adolescent self-organization and
Xu, MK +30 more
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Birth intervals and injectable contraception in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2005 The interval between births is associated with child survival in the developing world. We investigate associations between use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and other reversible contraception and short birth intervals in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ngianga-Bakwin, Kandala +3 more
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Levels and Correlates of Non-Adherence to WHO Recommended Inter-Birth Intervals in Rufiji, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 Poorly spaced pregnancies have been documented worldwide to result in adverse maternal and child health outcomes. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a minimum inter-birth interval of 33 months between two consecutive live births in order to ...
Honorati Masanja +20 more
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Global report on preterm birth and stillbirth (1 of 7): definitions, description of the burden and opportunities to improve data. [PDF]
, 2010 INTRODUCTION: This is the first of seven articles from a preterm birth and stillbirth report. Presented here is an overview of the burden, an assessment of the quality of current estimates, review of trends, and recommendations to improve data.
Joy E Lawn +11 more
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Impact of low birth weight and cardiovascular risk factors on endothelial function in early adult life [PDF]
, 2001 Background: Low birth weight is related to increased risk of coronary heart disease in adults and recently has been associated with vascular endothelial dysfunction in children.
Leeson, Christopher +10 more
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