Published in Lancet on June 05, 2010
Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet (2014) 11.19
Reproductive health, and child health and nutrition in India: meeting the challenge. Lancet (2011) 6.19
Vitamin A supplements for preventing mortality, illness, and blindness in children aged under 5: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ (2011) 2.51
Quality of sick child care delivered by Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi. Health Policy Plan (2012) 2.50
Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Hum Resour Health (2011) 2.47
Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet (2016) 2.35
The Joint Action and learning initiative: towards a global agreement on national and global responsibilities for health. PLoS Med (2011) 2.33
Introduction to a special supplement: Evidence for the implementation, effects, and impact of the integrated community case management strategy to treat childhood infection. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2012) 2.08
Study protocol for promoting respectful maternity care initiative to assess, measure and design interventions to reduce disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Kenya. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 2.04
Scaling up integrated community case management of childhood illness: update from Malawi. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2012) 2.03
Determinants of maternity care services utilization among married adolescents in rural India. PLoS One (2012) 2.02
Setting research priorities to reduce almost one million deaths from birth asphyxia by 2015. PLoS Med (2011) 2.01
Integrated community case management of childhood illness in Ethiopia: implementation strength and quality of care. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2014) 1.83
Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: rationale for and challenges of guidance development. PLoS Med (2012) 1.81
Availability of long-acting and permanent family-planning methods leads to increase in use in conflict-affected northern Uganda: evidence from cross-sectional baseline and endline cluster surveys. Glob Public Health (2013) 1.69
Care seeking behaviour for children with suspected pneumonia in countries in sub-Saharan Africa with high pneumonia mortality. PLoS One (2015) 1.67
Towards universal health coverage: the role of within-country wealth-related inequality in 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.64
Community mobilization in Mumbai slums to improve perinatal care and outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial. PLoS Med (2012) 1.63
The role of HIV-related stigma in utilization of skilled childbirth services in rural Kenya: a prospective mixed-methods study. PLoS Med (2012) 1.59
Community health workers providing government community case management for child survival in sub-Saharan Africa: who are they and what are they expected to do? Am J Trop Med Hyg (2012) 1.54
Measuring coverage in MNCH: challenges and opportunities in the selection of coverage indicators for global monitoring. PLoS Med (2013) 1.53
Barriers and enablers to integrating maternal and child health services to antenatal care in low and middle income countries. BJOG (2016) 1.48
Can volunteer community health workers decrease child morbidity and mortality in southwestern Uganda? An impact evaluation. PLoS One (2011) 1.47
The influence of distance and level of service provision on antenatal care use in rural Zambia. PLoS One (2012) 1.47
Quality of antenatal care in Zambia: a national assessment. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2012) 1.44
Critical incident audit and feedback to improve perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2005) 1.42
Factors associated with the use and quality of antenatal care in Nepal: a population-based study using the demographic and health survey data. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.41
Mobile phones improve antenatal care attendance in Zanzibar: a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.40
Overcoming Stagnation in the Levels and Distribution of Child Mortality: The Case of the Philippines. PLoS One (2015) 1.39
Maternal health care professionals' perspectives on the provision and use of antenatal and delivery care: a qualitative descriptive study in rural Vietnam. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.34
Equity and geography: the case of child mortality in Papua New Guinea. PLoS One (2012) 1.33
Effect of investment in malaria control on child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa in 2002-2008. PLoS One (2011) 1.32
Missed Opportunities: barriers to HIV testing during pregnancy from a population based cohort study in rural Uganda. PLoS One (2012) 1.31
Scaling up of breastfeeding promotion programs in low- and middle-income countries: the "breastfeeding gear" model. Adv Nutr (2012) 1.30
Effect of Chiranjeevi Yojana on institutional deliveries and neonatal and maternal outcomes in Gujarat, India: a difference-in-differences analysis. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 1.30
When women deliver with no one present in Nigeria: who, what, where and so what? PLoS One (2013) 1.28
Bypassing primary care clinics for childbirth: a cross-sectional study in the Pwani region, United Republic of Tanzania. Bull World Health Organ (2014) 1.27
Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity. PLoS Med (2013) 1.26
Determinants of maternal health services utilization in urban settings of the Democratic Republic of Congo--a case study of Lubumbashi City. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2012) 1.24
Health systems supports for community case management of childhood illness: lessons from an assessment of early implementation in Malawi. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 1.21
Exploring the prevalence of disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Kenya. PLoS One (2015) 1.17
A prospective study on neonatal mortality and its predictors in a rural area in Burkina Faso: can MDG-4 be met by 2015? J Perinatol (2011) 1.17
Monitoring intervention coverage in the context of universal health coverage. PLoS Med (2014) 1.17
Health system support for childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: results from a health facility census. BMC Res Notes (2013) 1.15
Effectiveness of an integrated approach to reduce perinatal mortality: recent experiences from Matlab, Bangladesh. BMC Public Health (2011) 1.15
Implementing knowledge into practice for improved neonatal survival; a cluster-randomised, community-based trial in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.15
Effect of Facilitation of Local Maternal-and-Newborn Stakeholder Groups on Neonatal Mortality: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS Med (2013) 1.14
Measuring coverage in MNCH: evaluation of community-based treatment of childhood illnesses through household surveys. PLoS Med (2013) 1.14
Trends in antenatal care attendance and health facility delivery following community and health facility systems strengthening interventions in Northern Uganda. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 1.14
Human resources for maternal, newborn and child health: from measurement and planning to performance for improved health outcomes. Hum Resour Health (2011) 1.13
The role of home-based records in the establishment of a continuum of care for mothers, newborns, and children in Indonesia. Glob Health Action (2013) 1.13
Prevalence and predictors of giving birth in health facilities in Bugesera District, Rwanda. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.11
Why some women fail to give birth at health facilities: a qualitative study of women's perceptions of perinatal care from rural Southern Malawi. Reprod Health (2013) 1.10
Wealth inequality and utilization of reproductive health services in the Republic of Vanuatu: insights from the multiple indicator cluster survey, 2007. Int J Equity Health (2011) 1.10
The changes in maternal mortality in 1000 counties in mid-Western China by a government-initiated intervention. PLoS One (2012) 1.09
Implementing a simplified neonatal resuscitation protocol-helping babies breathe at birth (HBB) - at a tertiary level hospital in Nepal for an increased perinatal survival. BMC Pediatr (2012) 1.09
Health financing in Malawi: Evidence from National Health Accounts. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2010) 1.09
Sentinel site community surveillance of mortality and nutritional status in southwestern Central African Republic, 2010. Popul Health Metr (2012) 1.08
Predictors of HIV serostatus disclosure to partners among HIV-positive pregnant women in Morogoro, Tanzania. BMC Public Health (2013) 1.08
Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 1.07
Can breastfeeding promote child health equity? A comprehensive analysis of breastfeeding patterns across the developing world and what we can learn from them. BMC Med (2013) 1.07
Preconception care: nutritional risks and interventions. Reprod Health (2014) 1.06
Stagnant neonatal mortality and persistent health inequality in middle-income countries: a case study of the Philippines. PLoS One (2013) 1.06
A qualitative study of health system barriers to accessibility and utilization of maternal and newborn healthcare services in Ghana after user-fee abolition. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.06
Indians can do better at improving child survival. Indian J Community Med (2011) 1.05
Health equity: evidence synthesis and knowledge translation methods. Syst Rev (2013) 1.05
Preconception care: closing the gap in the continuum of care to accelerate improvements in maternal, newborn and child health. Reprod Health (2014) 1.04
Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa: an area needing urgent attention to improve child health. BMC Pediatr (2012) 1.04
Increased use of social autopsy is needed to improve maternal, neonatal and child health programmes in low-income countries. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 1.04
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme--a systems approach. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 1.03
The patterns and causes of neonatal mortality at a tertiary hospital in oman. Oman Med J (2013) 1.03
Quality of newborn care: a health facility assessment in rural Ghana using survey, vignette and surveillance data. BMJ Open (2013) 1.02
Strengthening management and leadership practices to increase health-service delivery in Kenya: an evidence-based approach. Hum Resour Health (2012) 1.01
Patient-Held Maternal and/or Child Health Records: Meeting the Information Needs of Patients and Healthcare Providers in Developing Countries? Online J Public Health Inform (2011) 1.00
Estimating coverage of a women's group intervention among a population of pregnant women in rural Bangladesh. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2012) 1.00
Exploring the first delay: a qualitative study of home deliveries in Makwanpur district Nepal. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 0.99
Understanding the determinants of the complex interplay between cost-effectiveness and equitable impact in maternal and child mortality reduction. J Glob Health (2012) 0.99
Risk factors for maternal death and trends in maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a prospective longitudinal cohort analysis. Reprod Health (2015) 0.98
Quality of Antenatal care services in eastern Uganda: implications for interventions. Pan Afr Med J (2012) 0.98
Benchmarking health system performance across districts in Zambia: a systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions from 1990 to 2010. BMC Med (2015) 0.98
Correlates of complete childhood vaccination in East African countries. PLoS One (2014) 0.98
Community experiences and perceptions of reproductive health vouchers in Kenya. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.98
A strategy for reducing maternal and newborn deaths by 2015 and beyond. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 0.98
Factors Contributing to Maternal and Child Mortality Reductions in 146 Low- and Middle-Income Countries between 1990 and 2010. PLoS One (2016) 0.98
Global health actors no longer in favor of user fees: a documentary study. Global Health (2013) 0.97
Trends in child immunization across geographical regions in India: focus on urban-rural and gender differentials. PLoS One (2013) 0.97
Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025. J Glob Health (2016) 0.97
Factors associated with health facility childbirth in districts of Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia: a population based survey. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 0.97
Birth registration and access to health care: an assessment of Ghana's campaign success. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 0.97
Aspirations for quality health care in Uganda: How do we get there? Hum Resour Health (2013) 0.97
Determinants of utilisation of antenatal care and skilled birth attendant at delivery in South West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. Reprod Health (2015) 0.97
A decade of improvements in equity of access to reproductive and maternal health services in Cambodia, 2000-2010. Int J Equity Health (2013) 0.96
Editorial: IMA Health 2010. Health Care Manag Sci (2011) 0.95
Mapping of research on maternal health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a review of 2292 publications between 2000 and 2012. Global Health (2016) 0.95
Determinants of Utilization of Health Extension Workers in the Context of Scale-Up of Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illnesses in Ethiopia. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2015) 0.95
Scaling up impact on nutrition: what will it take? Adv Nutr (2015) 0.95
Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? Lancet (2003) 28.59
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2013) 18.02
Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation. Lancet (2013) 16.85
How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings? Lancet (2005) 12.16
Health information systems: the foundations of public health. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 10.84
Countdown to 2015 for maternal, newborn, and child survival: the 2008 report on tracking coverage of interventions. Lancet (2008) 9.23
Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania. Lancet (2003) 8.79
Evidence-based public health: moving beyond randomized trials. Am J Public Health (2004) 8.61
Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost? Lancet (2013) 8.46
Comparison of stratified primary care management for low back pain with current best practice (STarT Back): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet (2011) 7.90
Estimates of world-wide distribution of child deaths from acute respiratory infections. Lancet Infect Dis (2002) 6.73
The burden of malaria mortality among African children in the year 2000. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 6.64
The Accelerated Child Survival and Development programme in west Africa: a retrospective evaluation. Lancet (2010) 6.56
Preventing preterm births: analysis of trends and potential reductions with interventions in 39 countries with very high human development index. Lancet (2012) 6.33
Continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health: from slogan to service delivery. Lancet (2007) 6.25
Making health systems more equitable. Lancet (2004) 6.21
Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done. Lancet (2009) 6.09
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in five Latin American cities (the PLATINO study): a prevalence study. Lancet (2005) 5.61
Sub-Saharan Africa's mothers, newborns, and children: where and why do they die? PLoS Med (2010) 5.54
Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Countdown to 2015: a retrospective review of survey data from 54 countries. Lancet (2012) 5.31
Measuring impact in the Millennium Development Goal era and beyond: a new approach to large-scale effectiveness evaluations. Lancet (2010) 5.11
Countdown to 2015: tracking intervention coverage for child survival. Lancet (2006) 5.00
Mind the gap: equity and trends in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health services in 54 Countdown countries. Lancet (2008) 4.93
Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review. Lancet (2005) 4.64
Improving the prevention and management of chronic disease in low-income and middle-income countries: a priority for primary health care. Lancet (2008) 4.32
WHO guidelines for management of severe malnutrition in rural South African hospitals: effect on case fatality and the influence of operational factors. Lancet (2004) 4.29
Achieving universal coverage with health interventions. Lancet (2004) 4.29
A global fund for the health MDGs? Lancet (2009) 4.28
Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for maternal and neonatal health in developing countries. BMJ (2005) 4.22
Monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health: an international perspective. Hum Resour Health (2003) 4.17
Effect of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy on childhood mortality and nutrition in a rural area in Bangladesh: a cluster randomised trial. Lancet (2009) 4.11
How much does quality of child care vary between health workers with differing durations of training? An observational multicountry study. Lancet (2008) 4.09
Child survival gains in Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys. Lancet (2008) 4.03
Alma-Ata 30 years on: revolutionary, relevant, and time to revitalise. Lancet (2008) 3.94
Standards for CHERG reviews of intervention effects on child survival. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 3.90
Improvement of child survival in Mexico: the diagonal approach. Lancet (2006) 3.87
Programmatic pathways to child survival: results of a multi-country evaluation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. Health Policy Plan (2005) 3.86
Global and regional causes of death. Br Med Bull (2009) 3.71
Pneumonia: the leading killer of children. Lancet (2006) 3.66
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 3.59
The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: a report from a household survey in South Africa. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak (2009) 3.49
Trade and social determinants of health. Lancet (2009) 3.47
Neonatal survival: a call for action. Lancet (2005) 3.44
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: guidelines for implementation of CHNRI method. Croat Med J (2008) 3.42
30 years after Alma-Ata: has primary health care worked in countries? Lancet (2008) 3.40
Born too soon: the global epidemiology of 15 million preterm births. Reprod Health (2013) 3.32
Validity of reported vaccination coverage in 45 countries. Lancet (2003) 3.29
Supporting the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews. Lancet (2008) 3.28
The effect of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness on observed quality of care of under-fives in rural Tanzania. Health Policy Plan (2004) 3.27
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: assessment of principles and practice. Croat Med J (2007) 3.24
Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic scale: updating income ranges for the year 2012. Indian J Public Health (2012) 3.23
Exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa (PROMISE-EBF): a cluster-randomised trial. Lancet (2011) 3.21
Co-coverage of preventive interventions and implications for child-survival strategies: evidence from national surveys. Lancet (2005) 3.17
The challenge of reducing neonatal mortality in middle-income countries: findings from three Brazilian birth cohorts in 1982, 1993, and 2004. Lancet (2005) 3.14
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Bangladesh: early findings from a cluster-randomised study. Lancet (2004) 3.06
Ending of preventable deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea: an achievable goal. Lancet (2013) 2.98
Effect of the HIV epidemic on infant feeding in South Africa: "When they see me coming with the tins they laugh at me". Bull World Health Organ (2006) 2.94
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: universal challenges and conceptual framework. Croat Med J (2008) 2.93
Setting priorities in child health research investments for South Africa. PLoS Med (2007) 2.93
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: addressing values of stakeholders. Croat Med J (2007) 2.91
Context matters: interpreting impact findings in child survival evaluations. Health Policy Plan (2005) 2.89
How changes in coverage affect equity in maternal and child health interventions in 35 Countdown to 2015 countries: an analysis of national surveys. Lancet (2012) 2.88
Expanding access to antiretroviral therapy in sub-saharan Africa: avoiding the pitfalls and dangers, capitalizing on the opportunities. Am J Public Health (2005) 2.87
Adolescent physical activity and health: a systematic review. Sports Med (2006) 2.87
Levels and trends in under-5 mortality, 1990-2008. Lancet (2009) 2.86
Systematic scaling up of neonatal care in countries. Lancet (2005) 2.84
The multi-country evaluation of the integrated management of childhood illness strategy: lessons for the evaluation of public health interventions. Am J Public Health (2004) 2.83
Newborn survival: a multi-country analysis of a decade of change. Health Policy Plan (2012) 2.80
National, regional, and global trends in infertility prevalence since 1990: a systematic analysis of 277 health surveys. PLoS Med (2012) 2.78
An approach to estimating human resource requirements to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Health Policy Plan (2005) 2.77
Sub-Saharan Africa's mothers, newborns, and children: how many lives could be saved with targeted health interventions? PLoS Med (2010) 2.77
The WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study: planning, study design, and methodology. Food Nutr Bull (2004) 2.76
High ANC coverage and low skilled attendance in a rural Tanzanian district: a case for implementing a birth plan intervention. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2010) 2.76
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring. Glob Health Action (2013) 2.69
1 year after The Lancet Neonatal Survival Series--was the call for action heard? Lancet (2006) 2.66