Medicine for patients who are not small adults.
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March of Dimes Global Report on Birth Defects: The Hidden Toll of Dying and Disabled Children
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation · 2006
Argues that birth defects are a large and undercounted cause of child death and disability worldwide, concentrated in low- and middle-income…
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A Proposal for a New Method of Evaluation of the Newborn Infant
Virginia Apgar · 1953
Proposed scoring a newborn on five simple signs one minute after birth, replacing a subjective judgement of 'looks fine' with a number that different…
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10 works
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Argues that birth defects are a large and undercounted cause of child death and disability worldwide, concentrated in low- and middle-income countries where surveillance is weakest and folate fortification and rubella vaccination remain undelivered.
link checked 17 Sept 2026UNICEF
Argues that most of the world's child deaths are preventable with a defined package of low-cost interventions — skilled birth attendance, immunisation, oral rehydration and nutrition — delivered as an integrated continuum of care rather than as separate vertical programmes.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Sets shared targets and a monitoring framework for eliminating vaccine-preventable disease worldwide, treating immunisation coverage as a health-system indicator rather than a stand-alone programme.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Sets out a triage-and-treat protocol for severely ill children in resource-limited hospitals, arguing that a small set of danger signs, correctly acted on, prevents most avoidable child deaths.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Argues that adolescent health needs its own programmes and data, distinct from child health services, because the leading causes of death and disability in this age group are injury, mental health and reproductive health.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization et al.
Argues that early childhood development depends on five interlinked components — health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, security and early learning — and that programmes addressing only one, such as nutrition alone, systematically underachieve.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Virginia Apgar
Proposed scoring a newborn on five simple signs one minute after birth, replacing a subjective judgement of 'looks fine' with a number that different observers would reliably agree on.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William K. Frankenburg & Josiah B. Dodds
Proposes a brief, standardised set of age-referenced milestones that a non-specialist can use to flag a child's development as needing further assessment, rather than relying on parental impression or informal observation.
World Health Organization
Builds growth charts from breastfed children raised under optimal conditions across six countries, treating them as a normative standard for how children should grow rather than a descriptive average of how they do.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jamie Perin et al.
Shows that the causes of child death have shifted from infectious disease toward neonatal conditions and prematurity, meaning further reductions need different interventions than the ones that drove past progress.
link checked 17 Sept 2026