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Agbessi Amouzou
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 153
Citations - 5964
Agbessi Amouzou is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health equity. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 137 publications receiving 4785 citations. Previous affiliations of Agbessi Amouzou include United Nations & UNICEF.
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Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030
Joy E Lawn,Joy E Lawn,Hannah Blencowe,Hannah Blencowe,Peter Waiswa,Agbessi Amouzou,Colin Mathers,Daniel R Hogan,Vicki Flenady,J. Frederik Frøen,J. Frederik Frøen,Zeshan Qureshi,Claire Calderwood,Suhail Shiekh,Fiorella Bianchi Jassir,Danzhen You,Elizabeth M. McClure,Matthews Mathai,Simon Cousens +18 more
TL;DR: Improved care at birth is essential to prevent 1.3 million intrapartum stillbirths, end preventable maternal and neonatal deaths, and improve child development, and provide a way to target interventions to reach more than 7000 women every day worldwide who experience the reality of stillbirth.
Socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population
Davidson R. Gwatkin,Shea Rutstein,Kiersten Johnson,Eldaw Suliman,Adam Wagstaff,Agbessi Amouzou +5 more
TL;DR: This report on the Socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population in Mozambique is one in a series that provides basic information about health, Nutrition, and Population (hnp) inequalities within fifty-six developing countries.
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Socio-economic differences in health nutrition and population within developing countries. An overview.
Davidson R. Gwatkin,Shea Rutstein,Kiersten Johnson,Eldaw Suliman,Adam Wagstaff,Agbessi Amouzou +5 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this opening chapter is to explain how data appearing in the overview tables and in the individual country reports came into being, and how they can be used to help shape policies and programs.
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Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health
Ties Boerma,Jennifer Harris Requejo,Cesar G. Victora,Agbessi Amouzou,Asha George,Irene Akua Agyepong,Carmen Barroso,Aluísio J D Barros,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Robert E. Black,Josephine Borghi,Kent Buse,Liliana Carvajal Aguirre,Mickey Chopra,Doris Chou,Yue Chu,Mariam Claeson,Bernadette Daelmans,Austen Davis,Jocelyn DeJong,Theresa Diaz,Shams El Arifeen,Fernanda Ewerling,Monica Fox,Stuart Gillespie,John Grove,Tanya Guenther,Annie Haakenstad,Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor,Sennen Hounton,Luis Huicho,Troy Jacobs,Safia S Jiwani,Youssouf Keita,Rajat Khosla,Margaret E Kruk,Taona Kuo,Catherine Kyobutungi,Ana Langer,Joy E Lawn,Hannah H. Leslie,Mengjia Liang,Blerta Maliqi,Alexander Manu,Honorati Masanja,Tanya Marchant,Purnima Menon,Allisyn C. Moran,Oscar J. Mujica,Devaki Nambiar,Kelechi Ohiri,Lois Park,George C Patton,Stefan Peterson,Ellen Piwoz,Kumanan Rasanathan,Anita Raj,Carine Ronsmans,Ghada Saad-Haddad,Mariam L Sabin,David S Sanders,Susan M Sawyer,Inácio Crochemore Mohnsam da Silva,Neha S. Singh,Kate Somers,Paul Spiegel,Hannah Tappis,Marleen Temmerman,Lara M. E. Vaz,Rajani Ved,Luis Paulo Vidaletti,Peter Waiswa,Fernando C. Wehrmeister,William Weiss,Danzhen You,Shehla Zaidi +75 more
TL;DR: Analysis of intervention coverage, equity, and drivers of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) in the 81 Countdown countries suggests that available services in many countries are of poor quality, limiting the potential effect on RMNCH outcomes.
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Count every newborn; a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data
Sarah G Moxon,Sarah G Moxon,Harriet Ruysen,Kate Kerber,Agbessi Amouzou,Suzanne Fournier,John Grove,Allisyn C. Moran,Lara M. E. Vaz,Hannah Blencowe,Hannah Blencowe,Niall Conroy,A Metin Gülmezoglu,Joshua P. Vogel,Barbara Rawlins,Rubayet Sayed,Kathleen Hill,Donna Vivio,Shamim Qazi,Deborah Sitrin,Anna C. Seale,Steve Wall,Troy Jacobs,Juan Gabriel Ruiz Peláez,Tanya Guenther,Patricia S. Coffey,P Dawson,Tanya Marchant,Peter Waiswa,Ashok K. Deorari,Christabel Enweronu-Laryea,Shams El Arifeen,Anne C C Lee,Matthews Mathai,Joy E Lawn,Joy E Lawn +35 more
TL;DR: A major measurement gap exists to monitor care of small and sick babies, yet signal functions could be tracked similarly to emergency obstetric care, and tools to be developed and actions to test, validate and institutionalise proposed coverage indicators are outlined.