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Section edited by Shally Awasthi and Anne Lee
This section considers studies of healthcare policy, healthcare provision, and pediatric morbidity and mortality in developing nations.
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Burundi is one of the poorest countries and is among the four countries with the highest prevalence of stunting (58%) among children aged less than 5 years. This situation undermines the economic growth of the...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:176
Published on: 25 July 2017
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Pain problems are common in children and adolescents. Measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can be used to assess children’s subjective perspectives of pain experience and its impact on their life...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:174
Published on: 24 July 2017
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Systematic reviews support health systems and clinical decision-making by identifying and summarizing all existing studies on a particular topic. In 2009, a comprehensive description of child-relevant systemat...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:155
Published on: 11 July 2017
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A plateau in childhood overweight and obesity has been reported in some developed countries while in almost all developing countries this problem is on the rise. The aim of this paper is to describe the change...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:150
Published on: 19 June 2017
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Family-centered care seems promising in preventive pediatrics, but evidence is lacking as to whether this type of care is also valid as a means to identify risks to infants’ social-emotional development. We ai...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:148
Published on: 15 June 2017
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Infant feeding practices are known to influence the child’s long-term health. Studies have associated obesity and other diseases with reduced breastfeeding and early introduction of high calorie beverages (HCB...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:145
Published on: 13 June 2017
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Despite availability of treatment guidelines, persistent diarrhoea (PD) has been a major contributor of diarrhoeal deaths in low and middle income countries. We evaluated the outcome of children under the age ...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:142
Published on: 12 June 2017
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In China, the measles vaccine is offered for free whereas the pneumococcal vaccine is a for-fee vaccine. This difference has the potential to influence how caregivers evaluate whether a vaccine is important or...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:143
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Approximately 50% of the deaths of children under the age of 5 can be attributed to undernutrition, which also encompasses severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Diarrhoea is strongly associated with these deaths an...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:140
Published on: 7 June 2017
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Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) occurs in 3–5 of 1000 live births and is associated with known risk factors. In most countries, formal practice for early detection of DDH entails the combination of ri...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:136
Published on: 5 June 2017
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Migrant children are a population at risk for various health problems. Despite the increased inflow of migrants in Greece, data regarding their health assessment are lacking. This study aims to describe the cl...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:132
Published on: 26 May 2017
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Congenital heart defects (CHD) and preterm birth (PTB) are major causes of infant mortality. However, limited data exist on risk of mortality associated with PTB for newborns with CHD. Our objective was to ass...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:124
Published on: 15 May 2017
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The case fatality rate of severely malnourished children during inpatient treatment is high and mortality is often associated with diarrhea. As intestinal carbohydrate absorption is impaired in severe acute ma...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:112
Published on: 26 April 2017
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Quality improvement in health care requires identification of areas in need of improvement by comparing processes and patient outcomes within and between health care providers. It is critical to adjust for dif...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:106
Published on: 17 April 2017
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Hospital mortality data can inform planning for health interventions and may help optimize resource allocation if they are reliable and appropriately interpreted. However such data are often not available in l...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:99
Published on: 5 April 2017
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Nutrition training can boost competence of health workers to improve children’s feeding practices. In this way, child undernutrition can be ameliorated in general populations. However, evidence is lacking on e...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:94
Published on: 4 April 2017
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In Australia the health outcomes of remote dwelling Aboriginal infants are comparable to infants in developing countries. This research investigates service quality, from the clinicians’ perspective and as obs...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:93
Published on: 31 March 2017
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The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been increasing globally over the past two decades in children and adolescents. There are currently a dearth of comprehensive population-based estimates of ...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:85
Published on: 22 March 2017
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Diarrhea remains to be a main cause of childhood mortality. Diarrhea case management indicators reflect the effectiveness of child survival interventions. We aimed to assess time trends and country-wise change...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:83
Published on: 21 March 2017
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The impairment of immune functions associated with malnutrition may be one reason for the high mortality in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and thymus atrophy has been proposed as a marker of th...
BMC Pediatrics 2017 17:70
Published on: 14 March 2017
