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A composite index; socioeconomic deprivation and coverage of reproductive and maternal health interventions

Ferreira LZ, Wehrmeister FC, Dirksen J, Vidaletti LP, Pinilla-Roncancio M, Kirkby K, Ricardo LI, Barros AJ, Hosseinpoor AR.

Bull World Health Organ. 2024. 10.2471/blt.23.290866


Association between women’s empowerment and demand for family planning satisfied among Christians and Muslims in multireligious African countries

Hellwig F, Wado Y, Barros AJD.

BMJ Glob Health. 2024. 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013651


Attitudes of women towards intimate partner violence in Guyana: A cross-sectional analytical study

Joseph G, Vidaletti LP, Husbands C, Edwards L, James MK, Branas CC, Morrison CN.

PLoS One. 2024. 10.1371/journal.pone.0303902


Child immunization status according to number of siblings and birth order in 85 low- and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study

Costa FS, Silva LAN, Cata-Preta BO, Santos TM, Ferreira LZ, Mengistu T, Hogan DR, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

eClinicalMedicine. 2024.


Comparison of wealth-related inequality in tetanus vaccination coverage before and during pregnancy: a cross-sectional analysis of 72 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Johns NE, Blumenberg C, Kirkby K, Allorant A, Costa FDS, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Lyons C, Yusuf N, Barros AJD, Hosseinpoor AR.

Vaccines. 2024. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/4/431


Deprivation and its association with child health and nutrition in the Greater Kampala metropolitan area of Uganda

Kananura RM, Waiswa P, Wasswa R, Boerma T, Blumenberg C, Maiga A.

J Urban Health. 2024. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102547


Erosion of the Capital City Advantage in Child Survival and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Intervention Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amouzou A, Melesse DY, Wehrmeister FC, Ferreira LZ, Jiwani SS, Kassegne S, Maïga A, Faye CM, Ca T, Boerma T, For the Countdown to Regional Collaboration in Sub-Saharan A.

J Urban Health. 2024. 10.1007/s11524-023-00820-0


Exploring the “Urban Advantage” in Access to Immunization Services: A Comparison of Zero-Dose Prevalence Between Rural, and Poor and Non-poor Urban Households Across 97 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Santos TM, Cata-Preta BO, Wendt A, Arroyave L, Blumenberg C, Mengistu T, Hogan DR, Victora CG, Barros AJD.

J Urban Health. 2024. 10.1007/s11524-024-00859-7


Gestational weight gain at the national, regional, and income group levels based on 234 national household surveys from 70 low-income and middle-income countries

Costa JC, Wang D, Wang M, Liu E, Partap U, Cliffer I, Fawzi WW.

PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024. 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003484


Global inequities in adverse pregnancy outcomes: What can we do?

Roberts JM, Abimbola S, Bale TL, Barros AJD, Bhutta ZA, Browne JL, Celi AC, Dube P, Graves CR, Hollestelle MMJ, Hopkins MS, Kashan A, Koi-Larbi MK, Lacritz E, Myatt L, Redman CWG, ÖzgeTunÇAlp, Vermund SH, Gravett MG.

AJOG Glob Rep. 2024. 10.1016/j.xagr.2024.100385


Identifying and characterizing the poorest urban population using National Household Surveys in 38 cities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wehrmeister FC, Ferreira LZ, Amouzou A, Blumenberg C, Fayé C, Ricardo LIC, Maiga A, Vidaletti LP, Melesse DY, Costa JC, Blanchard AK, Barros AJD, Boerma T.

J Urban Health. 2024. 10.1007/s11524-023-00805-z


Inequalities in ownership and availability of home-based vaccination records in 82 low- and middle-income countries

Cata-Preta BO, Wendt A, Santos TM, Arroyave L, Mengistu T, Hogan D, R. , Barros AJD, Victora CG, Danovaro-Holliday MC.

medRxiv. 2024. 10.1101/2024.01.16.24301369


Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens

Mulugeta, Gajaa Asrat, Arja Cauane, Blumenberg Tewabe, Manaye Geremew, Gonfa Elsabe du, Plessis Elisabeth, Hamilton Awoke, Mihretu Abdurehman, Usamael Magdelawit, Mengesha Solomon Kassahun, Gelaw Aschale, Worku Mirkuzie, Woldie Biruk, Abate Theodros, Geta

BMJ Glob Health. 2024. 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-011911


Learning from success: the main drivers of the maternal and newborn health transition in seven positive-outlier countries and implications for future policies and programmes

Oona Maeve Renee C, Agbessi A, Cauane B, Ties B.

BMJ Glob Health. 2024. 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012126


Policies for expanding family planning coverage: lessons from five successful countries

Hellwig F, Moreira LR, Silveira MF, Vieira CS, Rios-Quituizaca PB, Masabanda M, Serucaca J, Rudasingwa S, Nyandwi A, Mulu S, Rashad H, Barros AJD.

Front Public Health. 2024. 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1339725


Trends and Inequalities in Maternal and Newborn Health Services for Unplanned Settlements of Lusaka City, Zambia

Jacobs C, Musukuma M, Hamoonga R, Sikapande B, Chooye O, Wehrmeister FC, Michelo C, Blanchard AK.

J Urban Health. 2024. 10.1007/s11524-024-00837-z


Understanding progress and challenges in women's health and wellbeing in exemplar countries: a time-series study identifying positive outliers

Martopullo I, Neves PA, Baird S, Liang M, Keats EC, Cherkas A, Iyer A, Seshadri SR, Woolway E, Victora CG, Sen G, Drake JK, Bhutta ZA.

Lancet Glob Health. 2024. 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00364-4


Zero-dose children and the extended immunisation cascade: Understanding the path to full immunisation with six childhood vaccines in 43 countries

Cata-Preta BO, Silva LAN, Costa FS, Santos TM, Mengistu T, Hogan DR, Victora CG, Barros AJD.

J Glob Health. 2024. 10.7189/jogh.14.04199


Coverage, trends, and inequalities of maternal, newborn, and child health indicators among the poor and non-poor in the most populous cities from 38 Sub-Saharan African Countries

Blumenberg C, Costa JC, Ricardo LI, Jacobs C, Ferreira LZ, Vidaletti LP, Wehrmeister FC, Barros AJD, Faye C, Boerma T.

J Urban Health. 2023. 10.1007/s11524-023-00806-y


Cross-national associations between age at marriage and intimate partner violence among young women: an analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 48 countries

Coll CVN, Wendt A, Santos TM, Bhatia A, Barros AJD.

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023. 10.3390/ijerph20043218


E. coli contamination of drinking water sources in rural and urban settings: an analysis of 38 nationally representative household surveys (2014–2021)

Santos, Thiago M. Wendt, Andrea Coll, Carolina V. N. Bohren, Meghan A. Barros, Aluisio J. D.

J Water Health. 2023. 10.2166/wh.2023.174


Gender-specific disaggregated analysis of childhood undernutrition in Ethiopia: evidence from 2000–2016 nationwide survey

Sahiledengle B, Mwanri L, Blumenberg C, Agho KE.

BMC Public Health. 2023. 10.1186/s12889-023-16907-x


Going deeper with health equity measurement: how much more can surveys reveal about inequalities in health intervention coverage and mortality in Zambia?

Blanchard AK, Jacobs C, Musukuma M, Chooye O, Sikapande B, Michelo C, Boerma T, Wehrmeister FC

Int J Equity Health. 2023. 10.1186/s12939-023-01901-x


How Zambia reduced inequalities in under-five mortality rates over the last two decades: a mixed-methods study

Jacobs C, Musukuma M, Sikapande B, Chooye O, Wehrmeister FC, Boerma T, Michelo C, Blanchard AK.

BMC Health Serv Res. 2023. 10.1186/s12913-023-09086-3


Inequalities in child immunization coverage: potential lessons from the Guinea-Bissau case.

Lerm BR, Silva Y, Cata-Preta BO, Giugliani C.

Cad Saude Publ. 2023. 10.1590/0102-311XEN102922


Inequalities in Immunization against Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Protection at Birth Coverage Using Household Health Survey Data from 76 Countries

Johns NE, Cata-Preta BO, Kirkby K, Arroyave L, Bergen N, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Santos TM, Yusuf N, Barros AJD, Hosseinpoor AR

Vaccines. 2023. 10.3390/vaccines11040752


Intimate partner violence victimisation and its association with maternal parenting (the 2015 Pelotas [Brazil] Birth Cohort): a prospective cohort study

Coll CVN, Barros AJD, Stein A, Devries K, Buffarini R, Murray L, Arteche A, Munhoz TN, Silveira MF, Murray J.

Lancet Glob Health. 2023. 10.1016/s2214-109x(23)00282-6


Maternal mortality, stillbirths, and neonatal mortality: a transition model based on analyses of 151 countries

Boerma T, Campbell OMR, Amouzou A, Blumenberg C, Blencowe H, Moran A, Lawn JE, Ikilezi G.

Lancet Glob Health. 2023. 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00195-X


Measures of women's empowerment based on individual-level data: a literature review with a focus on the methodological approaches

Costa JC, Saad-Haddad G, Hellwig F, Maia MFS, Barros AJD.

Measures of women's empowerment based on individual-level data: a literature review with a focus on the methodological approaches. 2023. 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1231790


Prevalence and changes of intimate partner violence against women aged 15 to 49 years in 53 low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2021: a secondary analysis of population-based surveys

Ma N, Chen S, Kong Y, Chen Z, Geldsetzer P, Zeng H, Wu L, Wehrmeister FC, Lu C, Subramanian SV, Song Y, Li Z.

Lancet Glob Health. 2023. 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00417-5


Recent trends in maternal and child health inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean: analysis of repeated national surveys

Mujica OJ, Sanhueza A, Carvajal-Velez L, Vidaletti LP, Costa JC, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

Int J Equity Health. 2023. 10.1186/s12939-023-01932-4


Sociodemographic inequalities in vegetables, fruits, and animal source foods consumption in children aged 6–23 months from 91 LMIC

Ricardo LIC, Gatica-Domínguez G, Neves PAR, Vaz JS, Barros AJD, Wehrmeister FC.

Front Nutr. 2023. 10.3389/fnut.2023.1046686


Socioeconomic inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Guyana: a time trends analysis

Joseph G, Vidaletti LP, Boston C.

J Glob Health Rep. 2023. https://doi.org/10.29392/001c.84527


The Mother-Baby Dyad: Why an integrated approach to maternal and newborn health in research and practice is essential for progress

Requejo J, Barros AJD, Faye C.

International Maternal Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) - Cape Town, South Africa. 2023.


The role of gender inequality and health expenditure on the coverage of demand for family planning satisfied by modern contraceptives: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional studies in 14 LAC countries.

Moreira LR, Blumenberg C, Caicedo Velasquez BE, Ewerling F, Balandrán A, Vidaletti LP, Varela AR, Hellwig F, Ponce de Leon RG, Barros AJD, Silveira MF, Wehrmeister FC.

Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 2023. 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100435


Time trends in ethnic inequalities in child health and nutrition: analysis of 59 low and middle-income countries

Vidaletti LP, Cata-Preta BO, Phillips DE, Shekhar S, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

Int J Equity Health. 2023. 10.1186/s12939-023-01888-5


Trends and inequities in adolescent childbearing in Latin American and Caribbean countries across generations and over time: a population-based study

Sanhueza A, Costa JC, Mujica OJ, Carvajal-Velez L, Caffe S, Victora C, Barros AJD.

Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023. 10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00077-9


Trends in the prevalence and social determinants of stunting in India, 2005–2021: findings from three rounds of the National Family Health Survey

Nirmala R, Manya B, Namita R, Utkarsh A, Sunaina D, Janaina Calu C, Ann MW.

BMJ Nutr Prev Health. 2023. 10.1136/bmjnph-2023-000648


What are the sources of contraceptives for married and unmarried adolescents: Health services or friends? Analysis of 59 low- and middle-income countries

Hellwig F, Barros AJD.

Front Public Health. 2023. 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1100129


Women's marital status and use of family planning services across male- and female-headed households in low- and middle-income countries.

Hellwig F, Saad GE, Wendt A, Barros AJ.

J Glob Health. 2023. 10.7189/jogh.13.04015


Birth registration coverage according to the sex of the head of household: an analysis of national surveys from 93 low- and middle-income countries

Wendt A, Hellwig F, Saad GE, Faye C, Boerma T, Barros AJD, Victora CG

BMC Public Health. 2022. 10.1186/s12889-022-14325-z


Children of more empowered women are less likely to be left without vaccination in low- and middle-income countries: A global analysis of 50 DHS surveys

Wendt A, Santos TM, Cata-Preta BO, Costa JC, Mengistu T, Hogan DR, Victora CG, Barros AJD.

J Glob Health. 2022. 10.7189/jogh.12.04022


Disparities in early initiation of breast feeding and prelacteal feeding: A study of low- and middle-income countries

Neves PAR, Vaz JS, Ricardo LIC, Armenta-Paulino NN, Barros AJD, Richter L, Rollins N, Perez-Escamilla R

Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2022. 10.1111/ppe.12871


Early initiation of breastfeeding is inversely associated with public and private c-sections in 73 lower- and middle-income countries

Vaz J, Gatica-Dominguez G, Neves P, Vidaletti L, Barros AJD

Sci Rep. 2022. 10.1038/s41598-022-25564-w


Effects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs

Victora CG, Hartwig FP, Vidaletti LP, Martorell R, Osmond C, Richter L, Stein AD, Barros AJD, Adair LS, Barros FC, SBhargava aK, BHorta eL, Kroker-Lobos MF, Lee NR, Menezes AMB, Murray J, Norris SA, Sachdev HS, Stein A, Varghese JS, Bhutta ZA, Black RE

Lancet. 2022. 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02716-1


Ethnic disparities in immunisation: analyses of zero-dose prevalence in 64 countries

Cata-Preta BO, Santos TM, Wendt A, Hogan DR, Mengistu T, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

BMJ Glob Health. 2022. 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008833


Ethnic inequalities in health intervention coverage among Mexican women at the individual and municipality levels

Armenta-Paulino N, Wehrmeister FC, Arroyave L, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

EClinicalMedicine. 2022. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101228


Ethnic inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in Ecuador: A study of the 2004 and 2012 national surveys.

Rios-Quituizaca P, Gatica-Dominguez G, Nambiar D, Santos JLF, Barros AJD.

EClinicalMedicine. 2022. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101322


Exploring the potential for a new measure of socioeconomic deprivation status to monitor health inequality

Dirksen J, Pinilla-Roncancio M, Wehrmeister FC, Ferreira LZ, Vidaletti LP, Kirkby K, Koller TS, Schlotheuber A, Tapia H, Vidal Fuertes C, Alkire S, Barros AJD, Hosseinpoor AR.

Int J Equity Health. 2022. 10.1186/s12939-022-01661-0


Exposure of zero-dose children to multiple deprivation: analyses of data from 80 low- and middle-income countries

Wendt A, Santos TM, Cata-Preta BO, Arroyave L, Hogan DR, Mengistu T, Barros AJB, Victora CG.

Vaccines. 2022. 10.3390/vaccines10091568


Gender-Related Inequality in Childhood Immunization Coverage: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of DTP3 Coverage and Zero-Dose DTP Prevalence in 52 Countries Using the SWPER Global Index

Johns NE, Santos TM, Arroyave L, Cata-Preta BO, Heidari S, Kirkby K, Munro J, Schlotheuber A, Wendt A, O’Brien K, Gupta A, Barros AJD, Hosseinpoor AR.

Vaccines. 2022. 10.3390/vaccines10070988


Geographic inequalities in health intervention coverage – mapping the composite coverage index in Peru using geospatial modelling

Ferreira LZ, Utazi CE, Huicho L, Nilsen K, Hartwig FP, Tatem AJ, Barros AJD

BMC Public Health. 2022. 10.1186/s12889-022-14371-7


Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age to build human capital

Black RE, Liu L, Hartwig FP, Villavicencio F, Rodriguez-Martinez A, Vidaletti LP, Perin J, Black MM, Blencowe H, You D, Hug L, Masquelier B, Cousens S, Gove A, Vaivada T, Yeung D, Behrman J, Martorell R, Osmond C, Stein AD, Adair LS, Fall CHD, et. al.

Lancet. 2022. 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02533-2


Health inequity focus in pandemic preparedness and response plans

Mujica, OJ, Brown CE, Victora CG, Goldblattd PO, da Silva Jr JB

Bull World Health Organ. 2022. 10.2471/BLT.21.287580


Independent and cumulative effects of risk factors associated with stillbirths in 50 low- and middle-income countries: A multi-country cross-sectional study

Li Z, Kong Y, Chen S, Subramanian M, Lu C, Kim R, Wehrmeister FC, Song Y, Subramanian SV.

eClinicalMedicine. 2022. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101706


Inequalities in the health, nutrition, and wellbeing of Afrodescendant women and children: A cross-sectional analysis of ten Latin American and Caribbean countries

Costa JC, Mujica OJ, Gatica-Dominguez G, del Pino S, Carvajal L, Sanhueza A, Caffe S, Victora CG, Barros AJD.

Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022. 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100345


Learning from success cases: ecological analysis of pathways to universal access to reproductive health care in low- and middle-income countries [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]

Hellwig F, Barros AJ

Gates Open Research. 2022. 10.12688/gatesopenres.13570.3


Paving the way to understanding female-headed households: Variation in household composition across 103 low- and middle-income countries

Saad GE, Ghattas H, Wendt A, Hellwig F, DeJong J, Boerma T, Victora C, Barros AJ.

J Glob Health. 2022. 10.7189/jogh.12.04038


Prelacteal feeding and its relationship with exclusive breastfeeding and formula consumption among infants in low- and middle-income countries

Neves PA, Armenta-Paulino N, Arroyave L, Ricardo LI, Vaz JS, Boccolini CS, Richter L, Peréz-Escamilla R, Barros AJ.

J Glob Health. 2022. 10.7189/jogh.12.04104


Prevalence of smoking and smokeless tobacco use during breastfeeding: A cross-sectional secondary data analysis based on 0.32 million sample women in 78 low-income and middle-income countries

Singh PK, Singh L, Wehrmeister FC, Singh N, Kumar C, Singh A, Sinha DN, Bhutta ZA, Singh S.

eClinicalMedicine. 2022. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101660


Religious affiliation as a driver of immunization coverage: Analyses of zero-dose vaccine prevalence in 66 low- and middle-income countries

Santos TM, Cata-Preta BO, Wendt A, Arroyave L, Hogan DR, Mengistu T, Barros AJ, Victora CG

Front Public Health. 2022. 10.3389/fpubh.2022.977512


The role of female permanent contraception in meeting the demand for family planning in low- and middle-income countries

Hellwig F, Ewerling F, Coll CVN, Barros AJD

Contraception. 2022. 10.1016/j.contraception.2022.05.002


Within-Country Inequalities in Zero-dose Prevalence (The background report for Unicef State of the World’s Children 2023. With support from Bianca Cata-Preta, Andrea Wendt, Luisa Arroyave and Thiago Santos)

Victora C, Barros AJ.

Electronic Report. 2022. https://www.countdown2030.org/publications/within-country-inequalities-in-zero-dose-prevalence


Womens empowerment as it relates to attitudes towards and practice of female genital mutilation/cutting of daughters: an ecological analysis of demographic and health surveys from 12 African countries

Coll CVN, Santos TM, Wendt A, Hellwig F, Ewerling F, Barros AJD

Front Sociol. 2022. 10.3389/fsoc.2021.685329


A new content-qualified antenatal care coverage indicator: Development and validation of a score using national health surveys in low- and middle-income countries

Arroyave L, Saad GE, Victora CG, Barros AJD

J Glob Health. 2021. 10.7189/jogh.11.04008


A scoping review of methods for assessment of sex differentials in early childhood mortality

Costa, JC, Victora, CG

BMC Pediatr. 2021. 10.1186/s12887-021-02503-8


Age patterns in overweight and wasting prevalence of under 5-year-old children from low- and middle-income countries

Ricardo LIC, Gatica-Domínguez G, Crochemore-Silva I, Neves PAR, dos Santos Vaz J, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

Int J Obesity. 2021. 10.1038/s41366-021-00911-5


An antenatal care indicator based on contact with services and content developed for 63 countries - IEA World Congress of Epidemiology 2021

Arroyave L, Saad-Haddad G, Victora CG, Barros AJD

Int J Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1093/ije/dyab168.040


Are children in female-headed households at a disadvantage? An analysis of immunization coverage and stunting prevalence: in 95 low- and middle-income countries

Wendt A, Hellwig F, Saad, GE, Faye C, Mokomane Z, Boerma T, Barros AJD, Victora CG

SSM - Population Health. 2021. 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100888


Assessing the overlap between immunisation and other essential health interventions in 92 low- and middle-income countries using household surveys: opportunities for expanding immunisation and primary health care

Santos TM, Cata-Preta BO, Mengistu T, Victora CG, Hogan DR, Barros AJD

EClinicalMedicine. 2021. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101196


Assessing Wealth-Related Inequalities in Demand for Family Planning Satisfied in 43 African Countries

Hellwig F., Coll Carolina, Blumenberg C., Ewerling F., Kabiru C., Barros AJD

Front Glob Womens Health. 2021. 10.3389/fgwh.2021.674227


Association Between Antenatal Care and Child Mortality: A Survival Analysis From 70 Low and Middle-Income Countries Using the ANCq Content-Qualified Coverage Indicator

Arroyave L, Saad-Haddad G, Barros AJ.

SSRN Preprints. 2021. 10.2139/ssrn.3963791


Coverage of maternal and child health in slums, rural and urban areas from 42 countries - IEA World Congress of Epidemiology 2021

Blumenberg C, Costa JC, Barros AJD, Victora CG

Int J Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1093/ije/dyab168.085


Delivery channels and socioeconomic inequalities in coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health interventions: analysis of 36 cross-sectional surveys in low-income and middle-income countries

Leventhal DGP, da Silva IC, Vidaletti LP, Armenta-Paulino N, Barros AJD, Victora CG

Lancet Glob Health. 2021. 10.1016/s2214-109x(21)00204-7


Determinants of childhood mortality sex ratios in low- and middle-income countries - IEA World Congress of Epidemiology 2021

Costa JC, Victora CG

Int J Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1093/ije/dyab168.142


Ethnic inequalities in reproductive health in Latin America - IEA World Congress of Epidemiology 2021

Costa JC, Gatica-Dominguez G, Victora CG, Barros AJD

Int J Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1093/ije/dyab168.143


Finding Children with High Risk of Non-Vaccination in 92 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Decision Tree Approach

Santos TM, Cata-Preta, B, Victora CG, Barros AB

Vaccines. 2021. 10.3390/vaccines9060646


Growth patterns by sex and age among under-5 children from 87 low-income and middle-income countries

Costa JC, Blumenberg C, Victora C.

BMJ Glob Health. 2021. 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007152


Identification of non-vaccinated children using decision trees - IEA World Congress of Epidemiology 2021

Santos TM, Cata-Preta B, Victora CG, Barros AJD

Int J Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1093/ije/dyab168.580


Identifying the women most vulnerable to intimate partner violence: A decision tree analysis from 48 low and middle-income countries

Coll CVN, Santos TM, Devries K, Knaul F, Bustreo F, Gatuguta A, Houvessou GM, Barros AJD

EClinicalMedicine. 2021. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101214


Inequalities in antenatal care coverage and quality: an analysis from 63 low and middle-income countries using the ANCq content-qualified coverage indicator

Arroyave, Luisa; Saad, Ghada; E. Victora, Cesar G.; Barros, Aluisio J. D.

Int J Equity Health. 2021. 10.1186/s12939-021-01440-3


Intimate partner violence against adolescents and young women in sub-Saharan Africa: who is most vulnerable?

Wado YD, Mutua, MK, Mohiddin A, Ijadunola MY, Faye C, Coll CVN, Barros AJD, Kabiru CW

Reprod Health. 2021. 10.1186/s12978-021-01077-z


Is womens empowerment associated with coverage of RMNCH interventions in low- and middle-income countries? An analysis using a survey-based empowerment indicator, the SWPER

Ewerling F, Wehrmeister F, C Victora C G, Raj A, McDougal L, Barros AJD

J Glob Health. 2021. 10.7189/jogh.11.04015


Levels and potential drivers of under-five mortality sex ratios in low- and middle-income countries

Costa JC, Weber AM, Abdalla S, Darmstadt GL, Victora CG

Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1111/ppe.12763


Maternal education and equity in breastfeeding: trends and patterns in 81 low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2019

Neves, PAR, Barros, AJD, Gatica-Domínguez, G, Vaz, JS, Baker, P, Lutter, CK

Int J Equity Health. 2021. 10.1186/s12939-020-01357-3


Measles vaccine coverage: The rise of vaccine hesitancy in upper-middle income countries - IEA World Congress of Epidemiology 2021

Cata-Preta B, Santos TM, Barros AJD, Victora CG, Wehrmeister FC.

Int J Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1093/ije/dyab168.114


Modern contraceptive use among women in need of family planning in India: an analysis of the inequalities related to the mix of methods used

Ewerling F, McDougal L, Raj A, Ferreira LZ, Blumenberg C, Parmar D, Barros AJD.

Reprod Health. 2021. 10.1186/s12978-021-01220-w


Monitoring breastfeeding indicators in high-income countries: Levels, trends and challenges

Vaz, JS, Maia, FS, Neves, PAR, Santos, TM, Vidaletti, LP, Victora, CG

Matern Child Nutr. 2021. 10.1111/mcn.13137


National and subnational coverage and inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and sanitary health interventions in Ecuador: a comparative study between 1994 and 2012

Rios Quituizaca, P, Gatica-Dominguez, G, Nambiar, D, Ferreira Santos, J, Licio Bruck, S, Vidaletti, LR, Luis Barros, AJD

Int J Equity Health. 2021. 10.1186/s12939-020-01359-1


Planning for work: Exploring the relationship between contraceptive use and womens sector-specific employment in India

McDougal L, Singh A, Kumar K, Dehingia N, Barros AJD, Ewerling F, Atmavilas Y, Raj A

Plos One. 2021. 10.1371/journal.pone.0248391


Probabilistic data linkage of health facility and individual data using PMA2020 surveys - IEA World Congress of Epidemiology 2021

Blumenberg C, Hellwig F, Barros AJD

Int J Epidemiol. 2021. 10.1093/ije/dyab168.086


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