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. 2011 Jan 11;8(1):e1000389.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000389.

Setting research priorities to reduce almost one million deaths from birth asphyxia by 2015

Joy E Lawn  1 , Rajiv Bahl, Staffan Bergstrom, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Gary L Darmstadt, Matthew Ellis, Mike English, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Anne C C Lee, Mario Merialdi, Mohamed Mohamed, David Osrin, Robert Pattinson, Vinod Paul, Siddarth Ramji, Ola D Saugstad, Lyn Sibley, Nalini Singhal, Steven N Wall, Dave Woods, John Wyatt, Kit Yee Chan, Igor Rudan
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Setting research priorities to reduce almost one million deaths from birth asphyxia by 2015

Joy E Lawn et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Joy Lawn and colleagues used a systematic process developed by the Child Health Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) to define and rank research options to reduce mortality from intrapartum-related neonatal deaths (birth asphyxia) by the year 2015.

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Conflict of interest statement

Zulfiqar Bhutta and David Osrin are members of the Editorial Board of PLoS Medicine. None of the other authors declare any competing interests.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. The burden of intrapartum-related neonatal deaths, intrapartum stillbirths, maternal deaths, and the unknown associated burden of neonatal morbidity and disability.
Data sources: neonatal deaths , stillbirths ,, maternal deaths , place of birth . No systematic estimates are currently available.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Conceptual framework for Child Health and Nutrition Initiative (CHNRI) showing steps from health research investment to a decrease in burden of death, disease, or disability.
Investment decisions in health research are based on a range of factors and processes (left side). The CHNRI framework identifies criteria to discriminate between competing research options (right side): (1) answerability; (2) effectiveness; (3) deliverability; (4) maximum potential for disease burden reduction; and (5) predicted equity effect in the population. These five criteria are used to score the list of research options in the CHNRI research priority setting process –.
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