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Building capacity for birth defects surveillance in Africa: Implementation of an intermediate birth defects surveillance workshop
(First Aid WorldWide, 2015-12)
Each year around the world, it is estimated that 300,000 neonates are born with a neural tube defect. Many countries, however, are still lacking comprehensive birth defects surveillance registries. Comprehensive birth ...
Methodological approaches to evaluate teratogenic risk using birth defect registries: advantages and disadvantages
(Public Library Science, 2016)
Panorama epidemiológico dos defeitos congênitos em Honduras
(Universidade Federal de São CarlosUFSCarPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem - PPGEnfCâmpus São Carlos, 2021-08-20)
Introduction: Honduras is the second poorest country in Central America. The country's total population in 2019 was 9,181,487; the child population, including children under the age of five, represented about 14.8% of the ...
Action against birth defects: if not now, when?
(2024)
Background: More children are surviving through interventions to address the infectious causes of under-5 mortality; subsequently, the proportion of deaths caused by birth defects is increasing. Prevention, diagnosis, ...
Methodological Approaches to Evaluate Teratogenic Risk Using Birth Defect Registries: Advantages and Disadvantages
(Public Library of Science, 2012-10)
Background: Different approaches have been used in case-control studies to estimate maternal exposure to medications and the risk of birth defects. However, the performance of these approaches and how they affect the odds ...