The overlooked burden of birth defects in addressing newborn mortality

Kebede, Meskerem ORCID: 0009-0007-7427-0897 and Friebel, Rocco ORCID: 0000-0003-1256-9096 (2025) The overlooked burden of birth defects in addressing newborn mortality. Global Health at LSE (17 Jul 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In this week’s blog post, Dr Meskerem Kebede and Dr Rocco Friebel (Global Surgery Policy Unit – LSE Health) lay out the need to reprioritise birth defects as a major contributor to neonatal and child mortality. Based on their research in Ethiopia and Somaliland, the authors argue that community- and primary care-focused surveillance, and timely interventions, are the essential ways to better understand and tackle this challenge.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE Health Health Policy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2025 00:48
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2025 00:48
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129205

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