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Sarmila Mazumder
Researcher at All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Publications - 80
Citations - 2462
Sarmila Mazumder is an academic researcher from All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1834 citations.
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Interventions to improve breastfeeding outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Bireshwar Sinha,Ranadip Chowdhury,M. Jeeva Sankar,Jose Martines,Sunita Taneja,Sarmila Mazumder,Nigel Rollins,Rajiv Bahl,Nita Bhandari +8 more
TL;DR: To provide comprehensive evidence of the effect of interventions on early initiation, exclusive, continued and any breastfeeding rates when delivered in five settings: health systems and services, home and family environment, community environment, work environment, policy environment or a combination of any of above.
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An Educational Intervention to Promote Appropriate Complementary Feeding Practices and Physical Growth in Infants and Young Children in Rural Haryana, India
TL;DR: Improving complementary feeding practices through existing services is feasible but the effect on physical growth is limited, and factors that limit physical growth must be better understood to plan more effective nutrition programs.
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Timing of initiation patterns of breastfeeding and infant survival: prospective analysis of pooled data from three randomised trials.
Karen Edmond,Sam Newton,Lisa Hurt,Caitlin Shannon,Betty R. Kirkwood,Sarmila Mazumder,Sunita Taneja,Nita Bhandari,Wafaie W. Fawzi,Masanja Honorati,Emily R. Smith,Ellen Piwoz,Rajiv Bahl,Sachiyo Yoshida,Jose Martines +14 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that early initiation of breastfeeding reduces neonatal and early infant mortality both through increasing rates of exclusive breastfeeding and by additional mechanisms.
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Population-based rates, timing and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country prospective cohort study
Imran Ahmed,Said M. Ali,Seeba Amenga-Etego,Shabina Ariff,Rajiv Bahl,Abdullah H Baqui,Nazma Begum,Nita Bhandari,Kiran Bhatia,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Godfrey Biemba,Saikat Deb,Usha Dhingra,Brinda Dube,Arup Dutta,Karen Edmond,Fabian Esamai,Wafaie W. Fawzi,Amit Kumar Ghosh,Peter Gisore,Caroline Grogan,Davidson H. Hamer,Julie M. Herlihy,Lisa Hurt,Muhammad Ilyas,Fyezah Jehan,Michel Kalonji,Jasmine Kaur,Rasheda Khanam,Betty R. Kirkwood,Aarti Kumar,Alok Kumar,Vishwajeet Kumar,Alexander Manu,Irene Marete,Honorati Masanja,Sarmila Mazumder,Usma Mehmood,Shambhavi Mishra,Dipak Kumar Mitra,Erick Mlay,Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan,Mamun Ibne Moin,Karim Muhammad,Alfa Muhihi,Sam Newton,Serge Ngaima,Andre Nguwo,Imran Nisar,Maureen O'Leary,John Otomba,Pawankumar Patil,M. A. Quaiyum,Mohammed Hefzur Rahman,Sunil Sazawal,Katherine Semrau,Caitlin Shannon,Emily R. Smith,Sajid Bashir Soofi,Seyi Soremekun,Venantius Sunday,Sunita Taneja,Antoinette Tshefu,Yaqub Wasan,Kojo Yeboah-Antwi,Sachiyo Yoshida,Anita K. M. Zaidi +66 more
TL;DR: The findings imply that programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia need to further intensify their efforts to reduce mortality rates, which continue to be high.
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Effect of implementation of Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) programme on neonatal and infant mortality: cluster randomised controlled trial
TL;DR: Implementation of the IMNCI resulted in substantial improvement in infant survival and in neonatal survival in those born at home and should be a part of India’s strategy to achieve the millennium development goal on child survival.