Regional meeting on reducing newborn mortality with a focus on birth defects

Meeting Report | New Delhi, India | 8-10 August 2018

19 March 2021
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Regional meeting on reducing newborn mortality with a focus on birth defects
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Overview

In 2014, WHO-SEARO in collaboration with CDC-USA created an online system to gather data on newborn-birth defects via a web-based database (SEAR-NBBD) with the objectives: 
  • To define the magnitude and distribution of birth defects by time, person and place 
  • To identify high-risk populations or identify clusters (aggregation of cases) 
  • To refer affected infants to appropriate services in a timely manner 
  • To monitor trends in the prevalence of different types of birth defects in a defined population
WHO Team
SEARO Regional Office for the South East Asia (RGO), WHO South-East Asia
Editors
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
Number of pages
48
Reference numbers
WHO Reference Number: SEA-CAH-34
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