Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity

Sohni Dean; Igor Rudan; Fernando Althabe; Aimee Webb Girard; Christopher Howson; Ana Langer; Joy Lawn; Mary-Elizabeth Reeve; Katherine C Teela; Mireille Toledano; Chandra-Mouli Venkatraman; José M Belizan; Josip Car; Kit Yee Chan; Subidita Chatterjee; Stanley Chitekwe; Tanya Doherty; France Donnay; Majid Ezzati; Khadija Humayun; Brian Jack; Zohra S Lassi; Reynaldo Martorell; Ysbrand Poortman; Zulfiqar A Bhutta

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001508

Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity

PLoS Med. 2013;10(9):e1001508. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001508. Epub 2013 Sep 3.

Affiliation

¹ Division of Women & Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Abstract

Sohni Dean and colleagues report their CHNRI exercise that developed health research priorities for effective pre-conception care in low- and middle-income countries.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child
Child Mortality
Developing Countries / economics*
Developing Countries / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Income*
Maternal Mortality
Morbidity
Preconception Care / economics*
Preconception Care / statistics & numerical data*
Research / economics*
Research / statistics & numerical data*

Grants and funding

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded the two-day meeting of MNCH experts that lead to the second iteration of this exercise. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.