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'Head growth and cranial assessment at neurological examination in infancy'

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

A cluster randomised controlled trial of the community effectiveness of two interventions in rural Malawi to improve health care and to reduce maternal, newborn and infant mortality

scientific article

A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

A prediction model for neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of data from population surveillance sites in India, Nepal and Bangladesh

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

A prospective key informant surveillance system to measure maternal mortality - findings from indigenous populations in Jharkhand and Orissa, India

scientific article

A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies on maternal emergency transport in low‐ and middle‐income countries ⬇️

scientific article published on June 24, 2013

Academic partnerships between rich and poor countries

scientific article published in March 2008

Adaptation of a probabilistic method (InterVA) of verbal autopsy to improve the interpretation of cause of stillbirth and neonatal death in Malawi, Nepal, and Zimbabwe

scientific article

Adolescents have not been well served by responses to the pandemic and the climate crisis

scientific article published in 2021

Advancing the state of the world's newborns

scientific article published on 16 May 2003

An alternative strategy to reduce maternal mortality

scientific article published in October 2006

An assessment of PCV13 vaccine coverage using a repeated cross-sectional household survey in Malawi.

scientific article published on 2 August 2018

Analyses confirm effect of women's groups on maternal and newborn deaths

scientific article published in May 2013

Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce preterm deaths in low-income settings--authors' reply

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Are village health sanitation and nutrition committees fulfilling their roles for decentralised health planning and action? A mixed methods study from rural eastern India

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Association between clean delivery kit use, clean delivery practices, and neonatal survival: pooled analysis of data from three sites in South Asia

scientific article

Authors' response: the equity impact of participatory women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality in India: secondary analysis of a cluster-randomized trial

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

Blood pressure and the capacity-load model in 8-year-old children from Nepal: Testing the contributions of kidney size and intergenerational effects

scientific article published on 5 February 2016

Body composition in Nepalese children using isotope dilution: the production of ethnic-specific calibration equations and an exploration of methodological issues

scientific article

Born too soon: care for the preterm baby

scientific article

Can We Predict Oral Antibiotic Treatment Failure in Children with Fast-Breathing Pneumonia Managed at the Community Level? A Prospective Cohort Study in Malawi.

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Cause-of-death data to support MDG 4 progress.

scientific article

Cause-specific neonatal mortality: analysis of 3772 neonatal deaths in Nepal, Bangladesh, Malawi and India

scientific article

Change in cost and affordability of a typical and nutritionally adequate diet among socio-economic groups in rural Nepal after the 2008 food price crisis

scholarly article by Nasima Akhter et al published 2018 in Food Security

Christiana Figueres joins The Lancet Countdown-delivering on the promise of Paris

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Climate change and health in Pacific island states

scientific article

Climate change is not the biggest global health threat – Authors' reply

scientific article published in September 2009

Climate change: the challenge for healthcare professionals

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Cluster-randomised controlled trial of community mobilisation in Mumbai slums to improve care during pregnancy, delivery, postpartum and for the newborn

scientific article

Community groups or mobile phone messaging to prevent and control type 2 diabetes and intermediate hyperglycaemia in Bangladesh (DMagic): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Community interventions for maternal and perinatal health

scientific article published in September 2005

Community interventions to reduce child mortality in Dhanusha, Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Community interventions to reduce maternal and child mortality in low-income countries

Community mobilisation and health management committee strengthening to increase birth attendance by trained health workers in rural Makwanpur, Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Community mobilisation with women's groups facilitated by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to improve maternal and newborn health in underserved areas of Jharkhand and Orissa: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Community-based interventions to reduce maternal mortality – Authors' reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Community-linked maternal death review (CLMDR) to measure and prevent maternal mortality: a pilot study in rural Malawi

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Correction: Can We Predict Oral Antibiotic Treatment Failure in Children with Fast-Breathing Pneumonia Managed at the Community Level? A Prospective Cohort Study in Malawi

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Correction: Impact of a Participatory Intervention with Women's Groups on Psychological Distress among Mothers in Rural Bangladesh: Secondary Analysis of a Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Correction: Predicting Hospitalised Paediatric Pneumonia Mortality Risk: An External Validation of RISC and mRISC, and Local Tool Development (RISC-Malawi) from Malawi

scientific article

Cost-Effectiveness of Monovalent Rotavirus Vaccination of Infants in Malawi: A Postintroduction Analysis Using Individual Patient-Level Costing Data

scientific article published in May 2016

Cost-effectiveness and affordability of community mobilisation through women's groups and quality improvement in health facilities (MaiKhanda trial) in Malawi

scientific article

Countdown to 2015: will the Millennium Development Goal for child survival be met?

scientific article

Cross-sectional study of asthma and rhinitis symptoms in the context of exposure to air pollution in Nepal

scientific article

Determinants and consequences of short birth interval in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Determinants of intra-household food allocation between adults in South Asia - a systematic review

scientific article

Development and validation of a photographic food atlas for portion size assessment in the southern plains of Nepal.

scientific article

Diabetes knowledge and care practices among adults in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey

Dietary Diversity Is Positively Associated with Deviation from Expected Height in Rural Nepal

scientific article published in July 2016

Disabled women׳s maternal and newborn health care in rural Nepal: a qualitative study.

scientific article

Distribution of diabetes, hypertension and non-communicable disease risk factors among adults in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal?

scientific article

Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes and maternal depression in Jharkhand and Orissa, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 6 March 2010

Effect of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on anthropometry and blood pressure in mid-childhood in Nepal: follow-up of a double-blind randomised controlled trial ⬇️

scientific article

Effect of participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits on children's linear growth in rural eastern India (CARING trial): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on October 2017

Effect of participatory women's groups facilitated by Accredited Social Health Activists on birth outcomes in rural eastern India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on February 2016

Effect of scaling up women's groups on birth outcomes in three rural districts in Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 6 March 2010

Effect of women's groups and volunteer peer counselling on rates of mortality, morbidity, and health behaviours in mothers and children in rural Malawi (MaiMwana): a factorial, cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on May 2013

Effectiveness of a monovalent rotavirus vaccine in infants in Malawi after programmatic roll-out: an observational and case-control study

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Effects of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on lung function in mid-childhood: follow-up of a double-blind randomised controlled trial in Nepal

scientific article

Effects of quality improvement in health facilities and community mobilization through women's groups on maternal, neonatal and perinatal mortality in three districts of Malawi: MaiKhanda, a cluster randomized controlled effectiveness trial

scientific article published on 26 June 2013

Effects of women's groups practising participatory learning and action on preventive and care-seeking behaviours to reduce neonatal mortality: A meta-analysis of cluster-randomised trials.

scientific article

Epidemiological transition, medicalisation of childbirth, and neonatal mortality: three Brazilian birth-cohorts

scientific article published in March 2005

Equity impact of participatory learning and action community mobilisation and mHealth interventions to prevent and control type 2 diabetes and intermediate hyperglycaemia in rural Bangladesh: analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in 2022

Estimating coverage of a women's group intervention among a population of pregnant women in rural Bangladesh

scientific article

Experiences in running a complex electronic data capture system using mobile phones in a large-scale population trial in southern Nepal

scientific article

Explaining the impact of a women's group led community mobilisation intervention on maternal and newborn health outcomes: the Ekjut trial process evaluation

scientific article

Exploring the equity impact of a maternal and newborn health intervention: a qualitative study of participatory women's groups in rural South Asia and Africa

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Exploring the first delay: a qualitative study of home deliveries in Makwanpur district Nepal

scientific article

Extreme caution is needed before scale-up of antenatal corticosteroids to reduce preterm deaths in low-income settings

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Formative evaluation of a participatory women's group intervention to improve reproductive and women's health outcomes in rural Bangladesh: a controlled before and after study

scientific article published on 06 January 2016

Formative qualitative research to develop community-based interventions addressing low birth weight in the plains of Nepal

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Framing an agenda for children thriving in the SDG era: a WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission on Child Health and Wellbeing

scientific article published in The Lancet

Gendered perceptions of physical activity and diabetes in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative study to inform mHealth and community mobilization interventions

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Generating Insights from Trends in Newborn Care Practices from Prospective Population-Based Studies: Examples from India, Bangladesh and Nepal

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Global health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action

scientific article

Growth and body composition of children aged 2-4 years after exposure to community mobilisation women's groups in Bangladesh

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Growth and body composition of children aged 2–4 years after exposure to community mobilisation women’s groups in Bangladesh

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Harmful marketing to children - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Health and climate change - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

scientific article

Health management committee strengthening and community mobilisation through women's groups to improve trained health worker attendance at birth in rural Nepal: a cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Health risks, present and future, from global climate change.

scientific article

How many births in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will not be attended by a skilled birth attendant between 2011 and 2015?

scientific article

How to reach every newborn: three key messages.

scientific article published on 29 June 2014

Impact of a participatory intervention with women's groups on psychological distress among mothers in rural Bangladesh: secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Impact of monovalent rotavirus vaccine on diarrhoea-associated post-neonatal infant mortality in rural communities in Malawi: a population-based birth cohort study

scientific article published in September 2018

Impact of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Clinical and Hypoxemic Childhood Pneumonia over Three Years in Central Malawi: An Observational Study.

scientific article

Impact on birth weight and child growth of Participatory Learning and Action women's groups with and without transfers of food or cash during pregnancy: Findings of the low birth weight South Asia cluster-randomised controlled trial (LBWSAT) in Nepa

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Implementation and fidelity of a participatory learning and action cycle intervention to prevent and control type 2 diabetes in rural Bangladesh

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Improved neonatal survival after participatory learning and action with women's groups: a prospective study in rural eastern India

scientific article published on 04 April 2013

Improving newborn survival in low-income countries: community-based approaches and lessons from South Asia

scientific article

Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes: one-year surveillance of births in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai

scientific article published on 05 June 2009

Intracluster correlation coefficients and coefficients of variation for perinatal outcomes from five cluster-randomised controlled trials in low and middle-income countries: results and methodological implications

scientific article

Intrapartum-Related Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in Rural Bangladesh: A Prospective, Community-Based Cohort Study ⬇️

scientific article published on April 18, 2011

Is essential newborn care provided by institutions and after home births? Analysis of prospective data from community trials in rural South Asia

scientific article

Leadership, action, learning and accountability to deliver quality care for women, newborns and children.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Learning from every stillbirth and neonatal death

scientific article published on August 2016

MaiMwana women's groups: a community mobilisation intervention to improve mother and child health and reduce mortality in rural Malawi

scientific article

Managing the health effects of climate change

scientific article (publication date: May 2009)

Marketing of breastmilk substitutes during the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Maternal antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation for long-term health benefits in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Maternal infection and risk of intrapartum death: a population based observational study in South Asia

scientific article

Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008.

scientific article

Maternal phenotype, independent of family economic capital, predicts educational attainment in lowland nepalese children.

scientific article published on 2 May 2016

Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health: challenges for the next decade

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Methods and challenges in measuring the impact of national pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccine introduction on morbidity and mortality in Malawi

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

Mobilizing women's groups for improved maternal and newborn health: Evidence for impact, and challenges for sustainability and scale up ⬇️

scientific article published on August 9, 2012

Monitoring climate change and child health: The case for putting children in all policies

scientific article published in 2021

Monitoring mortality trends in low-resource settings

scientific article

Mortality and its risk factors in Malawian children admitted to hospital with clinical pneumonia, 2001-12: a retrospective observational study

scientific article

Mortality and recovery following moderate and severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6-18 months in rural Jharkhand and Odisha, eastern India: A cohort study

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Non-treatment of children with community health worker-diagnosed fast-breathing pneumonia in rural Malawi: exploratory subanalysis of a prospective cohort study

scientific article

Nonmicrocephalic Infants with Congenital Zika Syndrome Suspected Only after Neuroimaging Evaluation Compared with Those with Microcephaly at Birth and Postnatally: How Large Is the Zika Virus "Iceberg"?

scientific article

Open-access publishing

article published in 2004

Participatory learning and action (PLA) to improve health outcomes in high-income settings: a systematic review protocol

scientific article published in 2022

Participatory learning and action cycles with women s groups to prevent neonatal death in low-resource settings: A multi-country comparison of cost-effectiveness and affordability

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Participatory learning and action cycles with women s groups to prevent neonatal death in low-resource settings: A multi-country comparison of cost-effectiveness and affordability

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Participatory learning and action to address type 2 diabetes in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative process evaluation

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits to improve child growth in rural eastern India: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Population Impact and Effectiveness of Monovalent Rotavirus Vaccination in Urban Malawian Children 3 Years After Vaccine Introduction: Ecological and Case-Control Analyses

scientific article published on May 2016

Population impact and effectiveness of sequential 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate and monovalent rotavirus vaccine introduction on infant mortality: prospective birth cohort studies from Malawi

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Predicting Hospitalised Paediatric Pneumonia Mortality Risk: An External Validation of RISC and mRISC, and Local Tool Development (RISC-Malawi) from Malawi.

scientific article

Predictive value of pulse oximetry for mortality in infants and children presenting to primary care with clinical pneumonia in rural Malawi: A data linkage study

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Predictors of Uptake and Timeliness of Newly Introduced Pneumococcal and Rotavirus Vaccines, and of Measles Vaccine in Rural Malawi: A Population Cohort Study

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Predictors of maternal psychological distress in rural India: a cross-sectional community-based study

scientific article

Predictors of psychological distress among postnatal mothers in rural Nepal: a cross-sectional community-based study

scientific article published on December 2013

Prevalence and determinants of caesarean section in private and public health facilities in underserved South Asian communities: cross-sectional analysis of data from Bangladesh, India and Nepal

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Protocol for the economic evaluation of a community-based intervention to improve growth among children under two in rural India (CARING trial).

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Protocol of economic evaluation and equity impact analysis of mHealth and community groups for prevention and control of diabetes in rural Bangladesh in a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial

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Protocol of the Low Birth Weight South Asia Trial (LBWSAT), a cluster-randomised controlled trial testing impact on birth weight and infant nutrition of Participatory Learning and Action through women's groups, with and without unconditional [...]

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Pulse oximetry for children with pneumonia treated as outpatients in rural Malawi

scientific article published on 11 October 2016

Reaching the poor with health interventions: programme-incidence analysis of seven randomised trials of women's groups to reduce newborn mortality in Asia and Africa

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Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in the poorest communities

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Research report--Volunteer infant feeding and care counselors: a health education intervention to improve mother and child health and reduce mortality in rural Malawi

scientific article published on June 2012

Scaling up antenatal corticosteroids in low-resource settings?

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Scaling up community mobilisation through women's groups for maternal and neonatal health: experiences from rural Bangladesh

scientific article published on 24 January 2012

Serious bacterial infections in newborn infants in developing countries

scientific article published on June 2004

Smartphone tool to collect repeated 24 h dietary recall data in Nepal.

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Socio-economic determinants of household food security and women's dietary diversity in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Socioeconomic determinants of growth in a longitudinal study in Nepal

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Socioeconomic inequalities in newborn care during facility and home deliveries: a cross sectional analysis of data from demographic surveillance sites in rural Bangladesh, India and Nepal

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

Stillbirth should be given greater priority on the global health agenda.

scientific article

Sustainability of community-based women's groups: reflections from a participatory intervention for newborn and maternal health in Nepal

scientific article published on 30 April 2018

The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

scientific article published in December 2018

The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

scientific article published on 1 November 2019

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

scientific article published on 2 December 2020

The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels ⬇️

scientific article published in November 2022

The Epidemiology of Hypoxemic Pneumonia among Young Infants in Malawi

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

The case for a new Global Fund for maternal, neonatal, and child survival

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

The effect of community groups and mobile phone messages on the prevention and control of diabetes in rural Bangladesh: study protocol for a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

The effect of increased coverage of participatory women's groups on neonatal mortality in Bangladesh: A cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on September 2013

The effect of participatory women's groups on birth outcomes in Bangladesh: does coverage matter? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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The effect of participatory women's groups on infant feeding and child health knowledge, behaviour and outcomes in rural Bangladesh: a controlled before-and-after study

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The equity impact of community women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality: a meta-analysis of four cluster randomized trials.

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

The equity impact of participatory women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality in India: secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised trial

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

The long-term impact of community mobilisation through participatory women's groups on women's agency in the household: A follow-up study to the Makwanpur trial.

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Trials of participation to improve maternal and newborn health – Authors' reply ⬇️

scientific article published on August 24, 2013

Understanding psychological distress among mothers in rural Nepal: a qualitative grounded theory exploration

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Using Observational Data to Estimate the Effect of Hand Washing and Clean Delivery Kit Use by Birth Attendants on Maternal Deaths after Home Deliveries in Rural Bangladesh, India and Nepal

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Utilization and management of maternal and child health funds in rural Nepal

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Validating an Agency-based Tool for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Complex Public Health Trial in Rural Nepal

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Vitamin A supplementation and maternal mortality

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What will it take for children and adolescents to thrive? The Global Strategy for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Where's the leadership? Future commitments of Unicef and WHO for global child health

BMJ article

Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on May 2013

Women's health groups to improve perinatal care in rural Nepal

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