作者
Igor Rudan, Katherine L O’brien, Harish Nair, Li Liu, Evropi Theodoratou, Shamim Qazi, Ivana Lukšić, Christa L Fischer Walker, Robert E Black, Harry Campbell, Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group
发表日期
2013/6
期刊
Journal of global health
卷号
3
期号
1
出版商
International Society for Global Health
简介
Background
The recent series of reviews conducted within the Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) addressed epidemiology of the two deadly diseases at the global and regional level; it also estimated the effectiveness of interventions, barriers to achieving high coverage and the main implications for health policy. The aim of this paper is to provide the estimates of childhood pneumonia at the country level. This should allow national policy–makers and stakeholders to implement proposed policies in the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF member countries.
Methods
We conducted a series of systematic reviews to update previous estimates of the global, regional and national burden of childhood pneumonia incidence, severe morbidity, mortality, risk factors and specific contributions of the most common pathogens: Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP), Haemophilus influenzae type B …
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