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ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2024

Birth defects and their impact on child morbidity and mortality in developing settings.

George Nyadimo Agot, Marshal Mutinda Mweu, Joseph Kibuchi Wang'ombe

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Article in The Pan African medical journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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George Nyadimo AgotDepartment of Public and Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Marshal Mutinda MweuDepartment of Public and Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Joseph Kibuchi Wang'ombeDepartment of Public and Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.

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Abstract

Despite the notable gains that have been realized in reversing perinatal, neonatal, and childhood morbidity and mortality, insignificant actions on birth defects undermine the desired outcomes. A yearly upward trend of birth defects (44.04-205.28 per 100,000 livebirths) between 2014 and 2018 attributed to known genetic, unknown multifactorial inheritance, and socio-demographic environmental factors, with an estimated unit economic cost of $ 1,139.73 for outpatient services was observed in Kiambu County, Kenya. Thus, interventions anchored on social health insurance would suffice.

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Child MortalityCongenital AbnormalitiesChildChild, PreschoolDeveloping CountriesFemaleHumansInfantInfant MortalityInfant, NewbornKenyaMorbidityPregnancyBirth defectschild morbiditychild mortalityimpact

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PMID39582908
PMCPMC11585121

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