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

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

Sohni Dean  1 , 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
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Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity

Sohni Dean et al. PLoS Med. 2013.

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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Conflict of interest statement

This work was funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at which FD works as a Senior Program Officer and KCT worked as a Program Officer in the Family Health Division. ZAB is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Conceptual framework.
Overview of the key steps in this adaptation of the CHNRI methodology.
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