Building the foundations for sustainable development: a case for global investment in the capabilities of adolescents

P Sheehan, K Sweeny, B Rasmussen, A Wils… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Investment in the capabilities of the world's 1· 2 billion adolescents is vital to the UN's
Sustainable Development Agenda. We examined investments in countries of low income …

Factors associated with stillbirth in selected countries of South Asia: A systematic review of observational studies

S Poudel, PR Ghimire, N Upadhaya, L Rawal - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite having the high rate of stillbirth in most of the countries of South Asia,
there is a lack of synthesized evidence based on factors associated with stillbirth. This study …

Evidence of health inequity in child survival: spatial and Bayesian network analyses of stillbirth rates in 194 countries

DA Adeyinka, BO Olakunde, N Muhajarine - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Estimated at 2.6 million annually, stillbirths worldwide have stayed alarmingly high,
in contrast to neonatal and under-five mortality rates. It is a neglected public health …

What are the costs of stillbirth? Capturing the direct health care and macroeconomic costs in Australia

EJ Callander, J Thomas, H Fox, D Ellwood, V Flenady - Birth, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Reducing stillbirth rates is an international priority; however, little is known
about the cost of stillbirth. This analysis sought to quantify the costs of stillbirth in Australia …

Burden of stillbirths and associated factors in Yirgalem Hospital, Southern Ethiopia: a facility based cross-sectional study

S Mengesha, MH Dangisso - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020 - Springer
Background Stillbirth is an adverse pregnancy outcome of public health importance causing
considerable psychosocial burden on parents and their family. Studies on stillbirth are …

A health system–based investment case for adolescent health

K Sweeny, HS Friedman, P Sheehan, M Fridman… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose This study argues that investments in the health of the world's 1.2 billion
adolescents is a critical component of the overall investment case for adolescents and is …

Exploring women's experience of healthcare use during pregnancy and childbirth to understand factors contributing to perinatal deaths in Pakistan: A qualitative study

J Ahmed, A Alam, S Khokhar, S Khowaja, R Kumar… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Understanding key healthcare system challenges experienced by women during pregnancy
and birth is crucial to scale up available interventions and reduce perinatal mortality. A …

Identifying the High-Risk Fetus in the Low-Risk Mother Using Fetal Doppler Screening

U Feucht, T Hlongwane, V Vannevel… - … Health: Science and …, 2022 - ghspjournal.org
Identifying the high-risk fetus in the low-risk pregnant mother (LRM) is a neglected area of
research. Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a major cause of stillbirths, especially in low-and …

Perinatal mortality and its causes in a rural block in Tamil Nadu, southern India: a community-based nonconcurrent cohort study

AG Cherian, C Tryphena, K George… - Indian Journal of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: Globally, over 130 million babies are born every year, and almost 8 million die
before their first birthday. Data on perinatal mortality (PM) and its various causes are lacking …

Protocol for an economic evaluation alongside a cluster randomised controlled trial: cost-effectiveness of Learning Clubs, a multicomponent intervention to improve …

T Nguyen, K Sweeny, T Tran, S Luchters… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Economic evaluations of complex interventions in early child development are
required to guide policy and programme development, but a few are yet available. Methods …