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Sarah Williams

Researcher at Save the Children

Publications -  8
Citations -  133

Sarah Williams is an academic researcher from Save the Children. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Breastfeeding. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 6 publications receiving 85 citations.

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Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025.

Sachiyo Yoshida, +98 more
TL;DR: Nine out of top ten identified priorities were in the domain of research on improving delivery of known interventions, with simplified neonatal resuscitation program and clinical algorithms and improved skills of community health workers leading the list.
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Barriers and facilitators of kangaroo mother care adoption in five Chinese hospitals: a qualitative study

TL;DR: Policy interventions specifically addressing barriers and facilitators of KMC adoption in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and postnatal wards in China are recommended and increased family and peer support is recommended to improve K MC adoption in China.
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Intermittent kangaroo mother care and the practice of breastfeeding late preterm infants: results from four hospitals in different provinces of China.

TL;DR: Intermittent KMC was associated with a nearly doubled increase in exclusive breast milk feeding (outcome) and breastfeeding (method) at both discharge and 42 days after discharge for late preterm infants in China.
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Early essential newborn care is associated with increased breastfeeding: a quasi-experimental study from Sichuan Province of Western China.

TL;DR: EENC enhances breastfeeding initiation and increases exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months of age and evidence suggests that nationwide scale up of EENC would increase the exclusive breastfeeding rate in the first 6 years of life.
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Maternal experience of intermittent kangaroo mother care for late preterm infants: a mixed-methods study in four postnatal wards in China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how mothers of late preterm infants experienced the provision of intermittent kangaroo mother care (KMC) in four postnatal wards in different hospitals in China, under a pilot KMC project.