UNICEF-PHFI Series on Newborn and Child Health, India: Methodology for Systematic Reviews on Child Health Priorities for Advocacy and Action.
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2011-03
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Abstract
India is committed to reducing childhood mortality and
morbidity. This requires evidence-based policy and
practice in the realm of public health. This in turn
necessitates advocacy and action (among all
stakeholders), focused on locally relevant issues. A
collaboration to work towards this goal was forged
between the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI),
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
(UNICEF), India; and a team of independent researchers.
As a first step, a systematic review of literature on four
priority areas of newborn care (community-based
interventions) and child health (acute respiratory infection,
diarrheal disease, anemia), was undertaken to address
important issues including epidemiology, interventions for
management, and operational issues of planning,
implementing, and measuring actions at a programmatic
level. This paper describes the development of the
methodology for undertaking these systematic reviews
including the process for framing of research questions,
building a research team, and executing the systematic
review (literature search strategy, data extraction,
analysis, and reporting). The challenges associated with
ensuring robust methodology, are also described.
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Action, Advocacy, Anemia, ARI, Child health, Community based newborn care, Diarrhea, Systematic reviews, India, Methods, Newborn
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Mathew Joseph L, Shah Dheeraj, Gera Tarun, Gogia Siddhartha, Mohan Pavitra, Panda Rajmohan, Menon Subhadra, Gupta Piyush. UNICEF-PHFI Series on Newborn and Child Health, India: Methodology for Systematic Reviews on Child Health Priorities for Advocacy and Action. Indian Pediatrics. 2011 Mar; 48(3): 183-189.