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    • Community initiated kangaroo mother care and early child development in low birth weight infants in India - a randomized controlled trial 

      Taneja, Sunita; Sinha, Bireshwar; Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Mazumder, Sarmila; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Martines, Jose Carlos; Dalpath, Suresh Kumar; Gupta, Rakesh; Kariger, Patricia; Bahl, Rajiv; Bhandari, Nita; Dua, Tarun; Abbasi, Farah; Panwar, Vaishali; Nagpal, Sugandhi; Shekhar, Medha; Ghosh, Runa; Kaur, Jasmine; Dube, Brinda (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background: In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 8402 stable low birthweight (LBW) infants, majority being late preterm or term small for gestational age, community-initiated KMC (ciKMC) showed a significant improvement ...

    • “The cord is the child”: meanings and practices related to umbilical cord care in Central Uganda 

      Mukunya, David; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Tumwine, James K; Tylleskär, Thorkild; Nankabirwa, Victoria; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-04)
      Background: Infections account for a quarter of all newborn deaths and the umbilical cord has been identified as a major route of newborn infections. Objective: To explore the meanings and practices related to the umbilical ...

    • Diagnostic measures for severe acute malnutrition in Indian infants under 6 months of age: a secondary data analysis 

      Chowdhury, Ranadip; Sanger, Nitika; Choudhary, Tarun Shankar; Taneja, Sunita; Martines, Jose Carlos; Bhandari, Nita; Bahl, Rajiv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Weight for length z-score (WLZ) < − 3 is currently used to define severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among infants. However, this approach has important limitations for infants younger than 6 months of age as WLZ ...

    • Diet and nutritional status among hospitalised children in Hawassa, Southern Ethiopia 

      Hjellbakk, Vilde Kloster; Hailemariam, Hailu; Reta, Fikadu; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Undernutrition constitutes a major problem among children in Hawassa, Ethiopia, and the literature on nutritional status in hospitalised children is scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate dietary ...

    • Early child stimulation, linear growth and neurodevelopment in low birth weight infants 

      Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Taneja, Sunita; Strand, Tor Arne; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Hysing, Mari; Mazumder, Sarmila; Bhandari, Nita; Martines, Jose Carlos; Dua, Tarun; Kariger, Patricia; Bahl, Rajiv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Children with low birth weight (LBW) are at risk of linear growth faltering and developmental deficits. Evidence suggests that early child stimulation and care reflected as responsive caregiving and opportunities ...

    • The unmet need for treatment of children with musculoskeletal impairment in Malawi 

      Ngoie, Leonard Banza; Dybvik, Eva Hansen; Hallan, Geir; Gjertsen, Jan-Erik; Mkandawire, Nyengo; Varela, Carlos Gomes; Young, Sven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: More than a billion people globally are living with disability and the prevalence is likely to increase rapidly in the coming years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The vast majority of those living ...