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Family planning: the unfinished agenda
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In half the larger low-income and lower-middle income countries (mainly in Africa), contraceptive practice remains low and fertility, population growth, and unmet need for family planning are high, and greater investment in family planning in these countries compelling.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2006-11-18. It has received 1095 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Family planning policy & Millennium Development Goals.read more
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Use of mass media campaigns to change health behaviour
TL;DR: It is concluded that mass media campaigns can produce positive changes or prevent negative changes in health-related behaviours across large populations.
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Continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health: from slogan to service delivery
TL;DR: This work defines a population-level or public-health framework based on integrated service delivery throughout the lifecycle, and proposes eight packages to promote health for mothers, babies, and children that can be used to deliver more than 190 separate interventions.
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Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future
TL;DR: The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) as mentioned in this paper brings together over 300 international researchers to provide an independent, scientifically based, integrated and policy-relevant analysis of current and emerging energy issues and options.
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Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
Haidong Wang,Chelsea A. Liddell,Matthew M Coates,Meghan D. Mooney,Carly E Levitz,Austin E Schumacher,Henry Apfel,Marissa Iannarone,Bryan K. Phillips,Katherine T. Lofgren,Logan Sandar,Rob E. Dorrington,Ivo Rakovac,Troy Jacobs,Xiaofeng Liang,Maigeng Zhou,Jun Zhu,Gonghuan Yang,Yanping Wang,Shiwei Liu,Yichong Li,Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren,Semaw Ferede Abera,Ibrahim Abubakar,Tom Achoki,Ademola Lukman Adelekan,Zanfina Ademi,Zewdie Aderaw Alemu,Peter J. Allen,Mohammad A. AlMazroa,Elena Alvarez,Adansi A. Amankwaa,Azmeraw T. Amare,Walid Ammar,Palwasha Anwari,Solveig A. Cunningham,Majed Asad,Reza Assadi,Amitava Banerjee,Sanjay Basu,Neeraj Bedi,Tolesa Bekele,Michelle L. Bell,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Jed D. Blore,Berrak Bora Basara,Soufiane Boufous,Nicholas J K Breitborde,Nigel Bruce,Linh N Bui,Jonathan R. Carapetis,Rosario Cárdenas,David O. Carpenter,Valeria Caso,Ruben Castro,Ferrán Catalá-López,Alanur Çavlin,Xuan Che,Peggy Pei-Chia Chiang,Rajiv Chowdhury,Costas A. Christophi,Ting Wu Chuang,Massimo Cirillo,Iuri da Costa Leite,Karen J. Courville,Lalit Dandona,Lalit Dandona,Rakhi Dandona,Adrian Davis,Anand Dayama,Kebede Deribe,Samath D Dharmaratne,Mukesh Dherani,Uʇur Dilmen,Eric L. Ding,Karen Edmond,Sergei Petrovich Ermakov,Farshad Farzadfar,Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad,Daniel Obadare Fijabi,Nataliya Foigt,Mohammad H. Forouzanfar,Ana C. Garcia,Johanna M. Geleijnse,Bradford D. Gessner,Ketevan Goginashvili,Philimon Gona,Atsushi Goto,Hebe N. Gouda,Mark A. Green,Karen Fern Greenwell,Harish Chander Gugnani,Rashmi Gupta,Randah R. Hamadeh,Mouhanad Hammami,Hilda L Harb,Simon I. Hay,Mohammad Taghi Hedayati,H. Dean Hosgood,Damian G Hoy,Bulat Idrisov,Farhad Islami,Samaya Ismayilova,Vivekanand Jha,Guohong Jiang,Jost B. Jonas,Knud Juel,Edmond K. Kabagambe,Dhruv S. Kazi,Andre Pascal Kengne,Maia Kereselidze,Yousef Khader,Shams Eldin Ali Hassan Khalifa,Young-Ho Khang,Daniel Kim,Yohannes Kinfu,Jonas Minet Kinge,Yoshihiro Kokubo,Soewarta Kosen,Barthelemy Kuate Defo,G Anil Kumar,Kaushalendra Kumar,R. Kumar,Taavi Lai,Qing Lan,Anders Larsson,Jongmin Lee,Mall Leinsalu,Stephen S Lim,Steven E. Lipshultz,Giancarlo Logroscino,Paulo A. Lotufo,Raimundas Lunevicius,Ronan A Lyons,Stefan Ma,Abbas Ali Mahdi,Melvin Barrientos Marzan,Mohammad T Mashal,Tasara T. Mazorodze,John J. McGrath,Ziad A. Memish,Walter Mendoza,George A. Mensah,Atte Meretoja,Ted R. Miller,Edward J Mills,Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad,Ali H. Mokdad,Lorenzo Monasta,Marcella Montico,Ami R. Moore,Joanna Moschandreas,William Msemburi,Ulrich O Mueller,Magdalena M. Muszyńska,Mohsen Naghavi,Kovin Naidoo,K.M. Venkat Narayan,Chakib Nejjari,Marie Ng,Jean de Dieu Ngirabega,Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen,Luke Nyakarahuka,Takayoshi Ohkubo,Saad B. Omer,Angel J Paternina Caicedo,Victoria Pillay-van Wyk,Daniel Pope,Farshad Pourmalek,Dorairaj Prabhakaran,Sajjad Ur Rahman,Saleem M Rana,Robert Quentin Reilly,David Rojas-Rueda,Luca Ronfani,Lesley Rushton,Mohammad Yahya Saeedi,Joshua A. Salomon,Uchechukwu K.A. Sampson,Itamar S. Santos,Monika Sawhney,Jürgen C Schmidt,Marina Shakh-Nazarova,Jun She,Sara Sheikhbahaei,Kenji Shibuya,Hwashin Hyun Shin,Kawkab Shishani,Ivy Shiue,Inga Dora Sigfusdottir,Jasvinder A. Singh,Vegard Skirbekk,Karen Sliwa,Sergey Soshnikov,Luciano A. Sposato,Vasiliki Stathopoulou,Konstantinos Stroumpoulis,Karen M. Tabb,Roberto Tchio Talongwa,Carolina Maria Teixeira,Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi,Alan J Thomson,Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman,Hideaki Toyoshima,Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene,Parfait Uwaliraye,Selen Begüm Uzun,Tommi Vasankari,Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos,Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov,Stein Emil Vollset,Stephen G. Waller,Xia Wan,Scott Weichenthal,Elisabete Weiderpass,Robert G. Weintraub,Robert G. Weintraub,Ronny Westerman,James D. Wilkinson,Hywel C Williams,Yang Yang,Gokalp Kadri Yentur,Paul S. F. Yip,Naohiro Yonemoto,Mustafa Z. Younis,Chuanhua Yu,Kim Yun Jin,Maysaa El Sayed Zaki,Shankuan Zhu,Theo Vos,Alan D. Lopez,Christopher J L Murray +231 more
TL;DR: Decreases since 2000 in under-5 mortality rates are accelerating in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and rising income per person and maternal education and changes in secular trends led to 4·2 million fewer deaths.
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Continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health : from slogan to service delivery. Commentary
Ann M Starrs,Kate Kerber,Joseph de Graft-Johnson,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Pius Okong,Ann Starrs,Joy E Lawn +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a population-level or public-health framework based on integrated service delivery throughout the lifecycle, and propose eight packages to promote health for mothers, babies, and children.
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