Saifon Chawanpaiboon, Joshua P. Vogel, Ann‐Beth Moller, Pisake Lumbiganon et al.
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth is the leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years worldwide. Although preterm survival rates have increased in high-income countries, preterm newborns still die because of a lack of adequate newborn care in many low-income and middle-income countries. We estima...
Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Hafni Bachtiar, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sunil Fernando et al.
AIM: To compare the mortality, morbidity of emergency and elective cesarean section with vaginal delivery among Asian teaching hospitals. METHODS: Hospital based prospective study at 12 centers of 9 countries. RESULTS: 12 591 vaginal deliveries, 3062 elective and 4328 emergency cesarean section were...
Wanicha Chuenkongkaew, Himanshu Negandhi, Pisake Lumbiganon, Weimin Wang et al.
BACKGROUND: Five countries in Asia including Bangladesh, China, India, Thailand and Vietnam formed a network called Asia-Pacific Network for Health Professional Education Reforms (ANHER). This network collectively conducted a survey at the national level and at the institutional level (for medical, ...
Sanjay Zodpey, Pisake Lumbiganon, Tim Evans, Ke Yang et al.
BACKGROUND: There is an increasing consensus globally that the education of health professionals is failing to keep pace with scientific, social, and economic changes transforming the healthcare environment. This catalyzed a movement in reforming education of health professionals across Bangladesh, ...
Ana Pilar Betrán, Maria Regina Torloni, Fernando Althabe, Elena Altieri et al.
Access to emergency obstetric care, including assisted vaginal birth and caesarean birth, is crucial for improving maternal and childbirth outcomes. However, although the proportion of births by caesarean section has increased during the last few decades, the use of assisted vaginal birth has declin...
Ka Yu Tse, Ai Ling Tan, Kirtipal Subedi, Shahana Pervin et al.
Cervical cancer remains a disease burden in Asia. The Asia and Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology envisages a need to produce a set of recommendations on the implementation of human papilloma virus vaccination program for both lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countr...
Unnop Jaisamrarn, Pisake Lumbiganon, Rohana Haththotuwa, Jiayu Li et al.
Violence against women remains a severe human rights violation and public health challenge across Asia and Oceania, with significant variations in prevalence and response capacity among countries. Despite global frameworks such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Agai...
Verónica Pingray, C. A. Williams, Fadhlun M. Alwy Al‐beity, Edgardo Ábalos et al.
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE There are no globally agreed upon strategies on early detection and first response management of postpartum haemorrhage during and after caesarean birth. Our study aimed to develop an international expert’s consensus on evidence-based approaches for early detection and first respo...