Wendy Graham, Jacqueline Bell, Colin H W Bullough
Summary This paper explores the scientific justification for the key action message “ensure skilled attendance at delivery.” Many governments and other provider agencies in poor countries will need to commit additional health resources in order to respond to this message, and opportunity costs will ...
Local Burden of Disease Vaccine Coverage Collaborators, Alyssa N. Sbarra, Sam Rolfe, Jason Q. Nguyen et al.
Abstract The safe, highly effective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children under 5 years old, and more than 99% of both occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) 1–4 . Globally co...
Jacqueline Bell, Siân Curtis, Silvia Alayón
Increasing the proportion of deliveries with skilled attendants present is being advocated as the most important step in preventing maternal deaths worldwide. The indicator most commonly used as a proxy for skilled attendance at delivery is the percentage of deliveries attended by a health professio...
Jacqueline Bell, Julia Hussein, Birgit Jentsch, Graham Scotland et al.
BACKGROUND: Increasing the proportion of births with skilled attendance is advocated by international agencies as a key factor in reducing maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. The SAFE Strategy Development Tool is designed to enable policy makers and planners to gather and interpret infor...
Rosalind Latiner Raby
FreeComparative and International Education: A Bibliography (2009)PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAdult, Rural, Literacy, Vocational, Nonformal, Lifelong, and Popular EducationÅber...
Ananya Roy
Ananya Roy , Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development , London : Routledge , 2010 . ISBN 978-0-415-87673-5 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-87672-8 (cloth) . Mr Jiabao. Sir. When you get here, you'll be told that we Indians invented everything from the Internet to hard-boiled eggs to space...
Adam C. Schneider, Marc J. Kuchner, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Aaron M. Meisner et al.
Abstract The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project uses data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to detect infrared objects with significant motion. In this work, we present the majority of the L and T dwarf candidates discovered through this effort. For each candidate, we provi...
Gianluca Aimaretti, Anna Alisi, Rayan Almathhur, Kristopher L. Arheart et al.
Rosalie Hughes
Photo: VideauxCANKUZO PROVINCE, Burundi—Last November, Sedar Zamukulu Watula and 30 other Congolese refugees waited, perched on a circle of wobbly wooden benches in Kavumu Refugee Camp in western Burundi. Watula, 27, sweat in the heat, unusual for the rainy season. He was used to waiting—for food, f...