Nutritional Rehabilitation of Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition
Published in The Indian Journal of Pediatrics
Evaluation of the effectiveness of care groups in expanding population coverage of Key child survival interventions and ...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundGlobally, less than half of Countdown Countries will achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) by two-thirds by 2015. There is growing interest in community-based delivery mechanisms to help accelerate progress. One promising approach is the use of a form of participatory mothers’ groups, called...
Reducing the infant mortality rate of India to 20 by 2020: Together we can do
Published in Indian Pediatrics
52nd National conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics 21–25 January, 2015, New Delhi
Published in Indian Pediatrics
Tackling inequities in child survival in India: Let’s meet at the horizon of pediatrics and public health
Published in Indian Pediatrics
50th National Conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, 17–20 January, 2013, Kolkata
Published in Indian Pediatrics
Risk factors and a predictive model for under-five mortality in Nigeria: evidence from Nigeria demographic and health su...
Published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundUnder-5 mortality is a major public health challenge in developing countries. It is essential to identify determinants of under-five mortality (U5M) childhood mortality because these will assist in formulating appropriate health programmes and policies in order to meet the United Nations MDG goal. The objective of this study was to develo...
Comparing estimates of child mortality reduction modelled in LiST with pregnancy history survey data for a community-bas...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundThere is a growing body of evidence that integrated packages of community-based interventions, a form of programming often implemented by NGOs, can have substantial child mortality impact. More countries may be able to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 targets by leveraging such programming. Analysis of the mortality effect of this...
Children who were vaccinated, breast fed and from low parity mothers live longer: A community based case-control study i...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundImproving child survival through various health interventions has been one of the main preoccupations of public health programs in developing nations. However, efforts to understand the child death determinants and determine whether the health interventions are really contributing to the reduction of mortality were not satisfactory. The p...
Knowledge and reported practices of men and women on maternal and child health in rural Guinea Bissau: a cross sectional...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundParticipatory health education interventions and/or community-based primary health care in remote regions can improve child survival. The most recent data from Guinea Bissau shows that the country ranks 5th from bottom globally with an under-five mortality rate of 198 per 1000 live births in 2007. EPICS (Enabling Parents to Increase Child...
