National and regional estimates of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age in 138 low-income and middle-income countries in 2010

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Anne C C ^a,b   Katz, Joanne ^a   Blencowe, Hannah ^c   Cousens, Simon ^c   Kozuki, Naoko ^a   Vogel, Joshua P ^d,e   Adair, Linda ^f   Baqui, Abdullah H ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^g   Caulfield, Laura E ^a   Christian, Parul ^a   Clarke, Siân E ^c   Ezzati, Majid ^h   Fawzi, Wafaie ⁱ   Gonzalez, Rogelio ^j   Huybregts, Lieven ^k,l   Kariuki, Simon ^m   Kolsteren, Patrick ^k,l   Lusingu, John ⁿ   Marchant, Tanya ^c   Merialdi, Mario ^e   Mongkolchati, Aroonsri ^o   Mullany, Luke C ^a   Ndirangu, James ^p   Newell, Marie Louise ^p,q   Nien, Jyh Kae ^r   Osrin, David ^q   Roberfroid, Dominique ^l   Rosen, Heather E ^a   Sania, Ayesha ⁱ   Silveira, Mariangela F ^s   Tielsch, James ^t   Vaidya, Anjana ^q   Willey, Barbara A ^c   Lawn, Joy E ^c,u   Black, Robert E ^a   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f IL   (United States)

^g AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^k GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^l INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^m Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya   (Kenya)

ⁿ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^o MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^p UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^q UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Chile)

^s FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^t GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; MALE; PREMATURE BIRTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84886445962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70006-8     Document Type: Article

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