Anne CC Lee, Simon Cousens, Stephen Wall, Susan Niermeyer et al.
BACKGROUND: Of 136 million babies born annually, around 10 million require assistance to breathe. Each year 814,000 neonatal deaths result from intrapartum-related events in term babies (previously "birth asphyxia") and 1.03 million from complications of prematurity. No systematic assessment of mort...
Debra Efroymson, Saifuddin Ahmed, Joy Townsend, Syed Mahbubul Alam et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent of tobacco expenditures in Bangladesh and to compare those costs with potential investment in food and other essential items. DESIGN: Review of available statistics and calculations based thereon. RESULTS: Expenditure on tobacco, particularly cigarettes, represen...
Edris Alam, Andrew Collins
For generations, cyclones and tidal surges have frequently devastated lives and property in coastal and island Bangladesh. This study explores vulnerability to cyclone hazards using first-hand coping recollections from prior to, during and after these events. Qualitative field data suggest that, bey...
Lindsey Lenters, Kerri Wazny, Patrick Webb, Tahmeed Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affect approximately 52 million children under five. This systematic review evaluates the effectiveness of interventions for SAM including the World Health Organization (WHO) protocol for inpatient management...
Aamer Imdad, Luke C. Mullany, Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen et al.
BACKGROUND: There is an increased risk of serious neonatal infection arising through exposure of the umbilical cord to invasive pathogen in home and facility births where hygienic practices are difficult to achieve. The World Health Organization currently recommends 'dry cord care' because of insuff...
Shams El Arifeen, Luke C. Mullany, Rashed Shah, Ishtiaq Mannan et al.
Background Up to half of neonatal deaths in high mortality settings are due to infections, many of which can originate through the freshly cut umbilical cord stump. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of two cord-cleansing regimens with the promotion of dry cord care in the prevention of neonatal m...
Ren Minghui, Matthew D. Stone, Maria Helena Semedo, Louis H. Nel
Rabies is one of the oldest and most terrifying diseases known to man. Written and pictorial records of rabies date back more than 4000 years, and today it is endemic in more than 150 countries around the world.1World Health Organization Rabies: key facts.http://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/...
Robert E. Black, Olivier Fontaine, Laura Lamberti, Maharaj Kishan Bhan et al.
BACKGROUND: Childhood diarrhea deaths have declined more than 80% from 1980 to 2015, in spite of an increase in the number of children in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Possible drivers of this remarkable accomplishment can guide the further reduction of the half million annual child death...
Martin Woodhead
This article summarizes some features of the Radda Barnen (Swedish Save the Children) study `Children's Perspectives on their Working Lives'. The case is made for working children's participation in the process of combatting child labour. Their participation will help ensure that interventions desig...
Tashrik Ahmed, Timothy Roberton, Petra Vergeer, Peter M. Hansen et al.
BACKGROUND: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had wide-reaching direct and indirect impacts on population health. In low- and middle-income countries, these impacts can halt progress toward reducing maternal and child mortality. This study estimates changes in health services util...
Ayesha Sania, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Goodarz Danaei, Günther Fink et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the magnitude of relationships of early life factors with child development in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). DESIGN: Meta-analyses of standardised mean differences (SMDs) estimated from published and unpublished data. DATA SOURCES: We searched Medline, bibliographies o...
Ruxana Hossain Parvin, Shaikh Flint Salam
Across the globe, governments of different countries have recognized the importance and value of digital technologies in language learning. This article is based on the pilot project of Save the Children using information and communication technology (ICT) in education. Through this initiative, inte...
Margubur Rahaman, Y. PATWARI, K M Aziz, Md. Hanif Munshi
To combat dehydration from diarrhoea in Shamlapur, a village of 7021 people, multiple community-based points were set up by trained volunteers for the distribution of glucose-electrolyte oral rehydration salt (ORS) packets. The comparable adjoining village, Bordil, with a population of 3888, obtaine...
Tapan Behl, Ishnoor Kaur, Simona Bungău, Arun Kumar et al.
The novel corona virus disease has shaken the entire world with its deadly effects and rapid transmission rates, posing a significant challenge to the healthcare authorities to develop suitable therapeutic solution to save lives on earth. The review aims to grab the attention of the researchers all ...
Fiona Steele, Sajeda Amin, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
This paper examines the impact of participation in women’s savings and credit groups organized by Save the Children USA on women’s empowerment, contraceptive use, and fertility in a rural area of Bangladesh. The data are drawn from a panel survey conducted in 1993, shortly before the groups were for...
Sheela Sinharoy, Thomas Clasen, Reynaldo Martorell
Child linear growth impairment, particularly stunting, remains a global health challenge. Stunting is defined as a height-for-age Z-score more than two SDs below the WHO child growth standards reference median for age and sex. The number of children younger than 5 years who are stunted was 59 millio...
Rima Shretta, Jenny Liu, Chris Cotter, Justin M Cohen et al.
No AccessNov 2017Malaria Elimination and EradicationAuthors/Editors: Rima Shretta, Jenny Liu, Chris Cotter, Justin Cohen, Charlotte Dolenz, Kudzai Makomva, Gretchen Newby, Didier Ménard, Allison Phillips, Allison Tatarsky, Roly Gosling, Richard FeachemRima ShrettaSearch for more papers by this autho...
Charles P. Larson, Unnati Rani Saha, Hazera Nazrul
BACKGROUND: Zinc treatment of childhood diarrhea has the potential to save 400,000 under-five lives per year in lesser developed countries. In 2004 the World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF revised their clinical management of childhood diarrhea guidelines to include zinc. The aim of this study was...
Fiona Steele, Sajeda Amin, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
We examine the characteristics of women who chose to join a women's savings or credit group organized by Save the Children USA in a rural area of Bangladesh, and the impact of participation on contraceptive use. The data are taken from a panel survey conducted in 1993, shortly before the groups were...
Daniel C. Schroeder, Federico Semeraro, Robert Greif, Janet Bray et al.
BACKGROUND: Basic life support education for schoolchildren has become a key initiative to increase bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates. Our objective was to review the existing literature on teaching schoolchildren basic life support to identify the best practices to provide basic life su...