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Rajiv Bahl
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 227
Citations - 18185
Rajiv Bahl is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 188 publications receiving 14628 citations. Previous affiliations of Rajiv Bahl include All India Institute of Medical Sciences & University of London.
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Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect
Cesar G. Victora,Rajiv Bahl,Aluísio J D Barros,Giovanny Vinícius Araújo de França,Susan Horton,Julia Krasevec,Simon Murch,Mari Jeeva Sankar,Neff Walker,Nigel Rollins +9 more
TL;DR: The meta-analyses indicate protection against child infections and malocclusion, increases in intelligence, and probable reductions in overweight and diabetes, and an increase in tooth decay with longer periods of breastfeeding.
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Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost?
Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Jai K Das,Rajiv Bahl,Joy E Lawn,Joy E Lawn,Rehana A Salam,Vinod K. Paul,M. Jeeva Sankar,Hannah Blencowe,Arjumand Rizvi,Victoria B Chou,Neff Walker +11 more
TL;DR: The analysis indicates that available interventions can reduce the three most common cause of neonatal mortality--preterm, intrapartum, and infection-related deaths--by 58, 79, and 84%, respectively.
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Quality of care for pregnant women and newborns—the WHO vision
Ӧzge Tunçalp,Wilson Were,C. MacLennan,Olufemi T Oladapo,Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu,Rajiv Bahl,Bernadette Daelmans,Matthews Mathai,Lale Say,Finn Børlum Kristensen,Marleen Temmerman,Flavia Bustreo +11 more
TL;DR: Poor quality of care (QoC) in many facilities becomes a paramount roadblock in the quest to end preventable mortality and morbidity.
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Breastfeeding and maternal health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Ranadip Chowdhury,Bireshwar Sinha,Mari Jeeva Sankar,Sunita Taneja,Nita Bhandari,Nigel Rollins,Rajiv Bahl,Jose Martines +7 more
TL;DR: A systematic literature search was conducted in PubMed Cochrane Library and CABI databases to evaluate the effect of breastfeeding on longterm (breast carcinoma ovarian carcinoma osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes mellitus) and short-term (lactational amenorrhoea post-partum depression postpartum weight change) maternal health outcomes.
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Moving beyond essential interventions for reduction of maternal mortality (the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health): a cross-sectional study
João Paulo Souza,Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu,Joshua P. Vogel,Guillermo Carroli,Pisake Lumbiganon,Zahida Qureshi,Maria José Costa,Bukola Fawole,Yvonne Mugerwa,Idi Nafiou,Isilda Neves,Jean José Wolomby-Molondo,Hoang Thi Bang,Kannitha Cheang,Kang Chuyun,Kapila Jayaratne,Chandani Anoma Jayathilaka,Syeda Batool Mazhar,Rintaro Mori,Mir Lais Mustafa,Laxmi Raj Pathak,Deepthi Perera,Tung Rathavy,Zenaida Dy Recidoro,Malabika Roy,P. Ruyan,N Shrestha,Surasak Taneepanichsku,Nguyen Viet Tien,Togoobaatar Ganchimeg,Mira A. Wehbe,Buyanjargal Yadamsuren,Wang Yan,Khalid Yunis,Vicente Bataglia,José Guilherme Cecatti,Bernardo Hernández-Prado,Juan Manuel Nardin,Alberto Narváez,Eduardo Ortiz-Panozo,Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas,Eliette Valladares,Nelly Zavaleta,Anthony Armson,Caroline A Crowther,Carol J. R. Hogue,Gunilla Lindmark,Suneeta Mittal,Robert Clive Pattinson,Mary Ellen Stanton,Liana Campodonico,Cristina Beatriz Cuesta,Daniel Giordano,N. Intarut,Malinee Laopaiboon,Rajiv Bahl,Jose Martines,Matthews Mathai,Mario Merialdi,Lale Say +59 more
TL;DR: High coverage of essential interventions did not imply reduced maternal mortality in the health-care facilities the authors studied, and the maternal severity index (MSI) had good accuracy for maternal death prediction in women with markers of organ dysfunction.