Perinatal health monitoring through a European lens: eight lessons from the Euro-Peristat report on 2015 births

J Zeitlin¹, S Alexander², H Barros³, B Blondel¹, M Delnord^{1

4}, M Durox¹, M Gissler^{5

6}, A D Hindori-Mohangoo^{7

8

9}, A Hocquette¹, K Szamotulska¹⁰, A Macfarlane¹¹; Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee

Affiliations

¹ Inserm UMR 1153, Obstetrical, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team (EPOPé), Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), DHU Risks in Pregnancy, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
² Perinatal Epidemiology and Reproductive Health Unit, CR2, School of Public Health, ULB, Brussels, Belgium.
³ ISPUP-EPIUnit, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
⁶ Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Department Child Health, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, TNO Healthy Living, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁸ Perinatal Interventions Suriname, Perisur Foundation, Paramaribo, Suriname.
⁹ School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Research Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
¹¹ Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, City, University of London, London, UK.

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. 2019 Dec;126(13):1518-1522.

doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15857. Epub 2019 Jul 18.

¹ Inserm UMR 1153, Obstetrical, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team (EPOPé), Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), DHU Risks in Pregnancy, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
² Perinatal Epidemiology and Reproductive Health Unit, CR2, School of Public Health, ULB, Brussels, Belgium.
³ ISPUP-EPIUnit, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
⁶ Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Department Child Health, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, TNO Healthy Living, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁸ Perinatal Interventions Suriname, Perisur Foundation, Paramaribo, Suriname.
⁹ School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Research Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
¹¹ Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, City, University of London, London, UK.

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Robinson JN, Ryan RM. Robinson JN, et al. BJOG. 2019 Dec;126(13):1523. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15928. Epub 2019 Sep 30. BJOG. 2019. PMID: 31495043 No abstract available.

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