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Documents on research

Key documents

• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  This report presents the proceedings and conclusions of a meeting organized by WHO's Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development to review research priorities in the area of child health.

• Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008
  Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank

• Neonatal and perinatal mortality 2004
  Country, regional and global estimates

2011

• Guidelines on optimal feeding of low birth-weight infants in low- and middle-income countries

2010

• Report of the WHO technical consultation on neonatal vitamin A supplementation research priorities
  Geneva, Switzerland, 4-5 December 2008

2009

• A qualitative review of psychosocial support interventions for young people living with HIV
• Effectiveness of shortened course (≤ 3 days) of antibiotics for treatment of acute otitis media in children
  A systematic review of randomized controlled efficacy trials
• Generating demand and community support for sexual and reproductive health services for young people
  A review of the literature and programmes
• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  Consultation proceedings, Geneva, 26–27 March 2009
• Traditional male circumcision among young people
  A public health perspective in the context of HIV prevention

2008

• Countdown to 2015: tracking progress in maternal, newborn & child survival
  The 2008 report
• Global action plan for the prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP): Report of an informal consultation
  Informal consultation at La Mainaz, Gex, France, 5–7 March 2007
• Introducing zinc in a diarrhoeal control programme
  Guide to conducting formative research

2007

• A research agenda for childhood tuberculosis
  Improving the management of childhood tuberculosis within national tuberculosis programmes: research priorities based on a literature review
• Evidence on the long-term effects of breastfeeding
  Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
• HIV transmission through breastfeeding
  A review of available evidence
• Indoor air pollution and lower respiratory tract infections in children
  Report of a symposium held at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Paris, 4 September 2006, presenting preliminary results of a randomized intervention trial in Guatemala and a workshop discussing the implication for policy, advocacy and future research
• Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth
  Report from a symposium held at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), September 2005, Johannesburg
• Joint statement on the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition
• Maternal mortality in 2005
  Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank
• Neonatal and perinatal mortality 2004
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Summaries of projects in developing countries assisting the parents of adolescents
• The impact of zinc supplementation on childhood mortality and severe morbidity
  Report of a workshop to review the results of three large studies
• WHO discussion papers on adolescence

2006

• Impact on economic growth of investing in maternal–newborn health
• Neonatal and perinatal mortality 2000
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people
  A systematic review of the evidence from developing countries
• The costs of maternal–newborn illness and mortality
• The effect of maternal–newborn ill-health on households
  Economic vulnerability and social implications

2005

• Report of a technical consultation on birth spacing

2004

• A review of the technical basis for the control of conditions associated with GAS infections
• Consultation on child health in complex emergencies
  Meeting report
• Consultative meeting to review evidence and research priorities in the management of ARI
• Dengue, dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome in the context of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
• Epidemiology and management of common skin diseases in children in developing countries
• Family and community practices that promote child survival, growth and development
  A review of the evidence
• Group A streptococcal vaccine development: current status and issues of relevance to less developed countries
• HIV and infant feeding counselling: from research to practice
• HIV and infant feeding data analysis
  Workshop report
• Home-modified animal milk for replacement feeding: is it feasible and safe?
  Discussion paper prepared for HIV and infant feeding technical consultation, 25-27 October 2006
• Indoor air pollution and child health in Pakistan
  Report of a seminar held at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 29 September 2005
• Informal consultation on clinical use of oxygen
• Key issues in the implementation of programmes for adolescent sexual and reproductive health
• Low birthweight
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Maternal mortality in 2000
  Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA
• Optimal feeding of low-birth-weight infants
  Technical review
• Risk and protective factors affecting adolescent reproductive health in developing countries
• Situation analysis of household energy use and indoor air pollution in Pakistan
• The current evidence for the burden of group A streptococcal diseases
• The importance of caregiver-child interactions for the survival and healthy development of young children
  A review
• The Lancet Neonatal survival series
• Urinary tract infections in infants and children in developing countries in the context of IMCI
• WHO, UNICEF, and SCN informal consultation on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children
  SCN Nutrition Policy Paper No. 21

2003

• Antenatal care in developing countries
  Promises, achievements and missed opportunities: an analysis of trends, levels and differentials, 1990-2001
• Building the evidence base on the provision of health care to children in complex emergencies: Report of the working group
• Explore simplified antimicrobial regimens for the treatment of neonatal sepsis
  Meeting report, Geneva, 30th September – 1st October 2002
• Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
  Geneva, 3-5 February 2003 : Meeting report
• Special supplement of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin based on a WHO expert consultation on complementary feeding
• The Lancet Child survival series

2002

• Child health research: A foundation for improving child health
• Evidence base for the community management of pneumonia
• Growing in confidence
  Lessons from eight countries in successful scaling up of adolescent health and development programming
• Nutrient adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding for the term infant during the first six months of life
• Report of informal technical meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding
  3-5 December 2002, Washington, D.C.

2001

• Breastfeeding and replacement feeding practices in the context of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
  An assessment tool for research
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: report of an expert consultation

2000

• What about boys?
  A literature review on the health and development of adolescent boys

1990-1999

• A critical link: Interventions for physical growth and psychological development
• Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children
• Evidence for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding
• Hypoglycaemia of the newborn
  Review of the literature
• Programming for adolescent health and development
  Report of a WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF study group
• Relactation: review of experience and recommendations for practice