The Jamaican Historical Experience of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Sickle Cell Disease Child Mortality

The authors provide additional support for the assertion in our paper on sickle cell disease (SCD) in Africa that newborn screening can result in substantially reduced mortality even in the absence of specific interventions such as penicillin prophylaxis or pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). [C...

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Published in:American journal of preventive medicine 2012-06, Vol.42 (6), p.e101-e103
Main Authors: Grosse, Scott D., PhD, Atrash, Hani K., MD, MPH, Odame, Isaac, MB, ChB, MRCP, Amendah, Djesika, PhD, Piel, Frédéric B., PhD, Williams, Thomas N., PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Anemia, Sickle Cell - mortality
Child Mortality
Educational programmes
Humans
Internal Medicine
Jamaican people
Mortality
Sickle cell anaemia
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Summary:The authors provide additional support for the assertion in our paper on sickle cell disease (SCD) in Africa that newborn screening can result in substantially reduced mortality even in the absence of specific interventions such as penicillin prophylaxis or pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). [Copyright American Journal of Preventive Medicine; published by Elsevier Inc.]
ISSN:0749-3797
1873-2607
DOI:10.1016/j.amepre.2012.03.005