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Robert E. Black
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 571
Citations - 41696
Robert E. Black is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Child mortality. The author has an hindex of 108, co-authored 567 publications receiving 36412 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert E. Black include Global Forum for Health Research & University of California, Davis.
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The Epidemiology of Global Micronutrient Deficiencies
TL;DR: It is widely accepted that intervention in the first 1,000 days is critical to break the cycle of malnutrition; however, a coordinated, sustainable commitment to scaling up nutrition at the global level is still needed.
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Burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in children in the era of conjugate vaccines: global, regional, and national estimates for 2000–15
Brian Wahl,Katherine L. O'Brien,Adena Greenbaum,Anwesha Majumder,Li Liu,Yue Chu,Ivana Lukšić,Harish Nair,Harish Nair,David A. McAllister,Harry Campbell,Igor Rudan,Robert E. Black,Maria Deloria Knoll +13 more
TL;DR: Pneumococcal deaths declined by 51% and Hib deaths by 90% from 2000 to 2015 and progress towards further reducing the global burden of Hib and pneumococcal disease burden will depend on the efforts of a few large countries in Africa and Asia.
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Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Abdullah H Baqui,Abdullah H Baqui,Shams El-Arifeen,Gary L. Darmstadt,Saifuddin Ahmed,Emma K. Williams,Habibur R Seraji,Habibur R Seraji,Ishtiaq Mannan,Ishtiaq Mannan,Syed Moshfiqur Rahman,Rasheduzzaman Shah,Rasheduzzaman Shah,Samir K. Saha,Uzma Syed,Peter J. Winch,Amnesty E LeFevre,Mathuram Santosham,Robert E. Black +18 more
TL;DR: A home-care strategy to promote an integrated package of preventive and curative newborn care is effective in reducing neonatal mortality in communities with a weak health system, low health-care use, and high Neonatal mortality.
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Zinc supplementation reduces the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections in infants and preschool children : A double-blind, controlled trial
TL;DR: A dietary zinc supplement resulted in a significant reduction in respiratory morbidity in preschool children and suggest that interventions to improve zinc intake will improve the health and survival of children in developing countries.
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Efficacy of probiotics in prevention of acute diarrhoea: a meta-analysis of masked, randomised, placebo-controlled trials
Sunil Sazawal,Sunil Sazawal,Girish Hiremath,Usha Dhingra,Pooja Malik,Saikat Deb,Robert E. Black +6 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the available data from 34 masked, randomised, placebo-controlled trials suggests that probiotics significantly reduced antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, reduced the risk of travellers' diarrhoee by 8% (-6 to 21%), and that of acute diarrhoeA of diverse causes by 34% (8-53%).