Oxford Textbook of Global Health of Women, Newborns, Children, and Adolescents

Delan Devakumar is a Clinical Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Health at the Institute for Global Health in University College London. With a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, he worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres as a paediatrician in Pakistan in 2006 (Kashmir earthquake), in South Sudan (cholera outbreak) in 2007 and Myanmar (post-cyclone Nargis) in 2008. He also has a master degree in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD from UCL. He is a commissioner and steering group member of the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health. Jennifer Hall, Principal Clinical Researcher at the Institute for Women's Health in University College London, is a public health doctor with a PhD in Maternal Health and Epidemiology and a long-standing interest in reproductive and women's health. A mixed-methods researcher, she works with quantitative, qualitative and psychometric methodologies. She has worked with clinical public health nationally and internationally. She is particularly interested in the measurement of pregnancy intention, preconception care and the detection and management of unplanned pregnancies. Her work aims to improve health and social outcomes for women of reproductive age around the world. Zeshan Qureshi is an academic and clinical paediatrician, with a special interest in global health and medical education. Since graduating from the University of Southampton in 2009, he has published and presented research in the fields of pharmacology, global health, and medical education. He is also the chief editor of the Unofficial Guide to Medicine series. Joy Lawn has worked at the WHO Collaborating Center, CDC Atlanta, USA, and the Institute of Child Health, London. She has a Masters of Public Health from Emory University, Atlanta, and a PhD in perinatal epidemiology at University College London, UK. She has been Director Global Evidence and Policy for Gates Foundation funded Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) programme of Save the Children for ten years. She has also published over 200 peer reviewed papers, as well as a range of chapters, books and policy relevant reports. She co-led several Lancet series on newborn survival and stillbirths. Front cover image illustrated by the artist Joanna Lawn. For more information see instagram @nothing.bettertodo

Section 1: Introduction
1: Mike Rowson: Women's and children's health in a changing world
2: Joy Lawn, Samantha Sadoo,: Strategies through the lifecycle to improve maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
3: Mike Rowson: Agencies and actors in women's and children's health
Section 2: Research Methods
4: Tim Colbourn: Research Methods and Evidence Based Medicine
5: Catherine Pitt, Josephine Borghi, Kara Hanson: Economic evaluation in global health
Section 3: Important concepts across the life course
6: Bernadette O'Hare, Sebastian Taylor: Social determinants of child health
7: Caroline Fall, Kalyanaraman Kumaran: Developmental origins of health and disease
8: Kate Mandeville, Ingrid Wolfe: Health Workers and Health Systems
9: Nicholas Watts: The environment and health
10: Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Aula Abarra: Conflict, Natural Disaster and the Humanitarian Response
Section 4: Adolescent health
11: Susan Sawyer, Suraya Abdul-Razak, George Patton: Introduction to Adolescent health
12: Saiqa Mullick: Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
13: Jackie Pitchforth, Dougal Hargreaves: Adolescent Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
14: Kelly Clarke, Silvia Yasuda, Atif Rahman: Adolescent mental health
15: Rashida Ferrand: Adolescent HIV and infection
16: Qingfeng Li, Adnan Hyder: Adolescent Injuries
17: Samantha Sadoo, David Ross: Strategies to improve adolescent health
Section 5: Women's health
18: Address Malata: Introduction to Maternal Health
19: Mags Beksinska, Jenni Smit, Chelsea Morroni Lavanya Pillay: Sexual and reproductive health
20: Jennifer Hall: Contraception and abortion
21: Abi Merriel, Raymond Kanthit, David Lissauer: Direct maternal Deaths
22: Heather Lytle, Beatrice Chikaphonya-Phiri, Abi Merriel: Indirect maternal deaths
23: Nynke van de Broek, Mary McCauley: Maternal morbidity
24: Delanjathan Devakumar, Patricia Rondo: Maternal nutrition
25: Rob Stewart, Selena Gleadow-Ware: Maternal mental health
26: Address Malata: Strategies to improve maternal health
Section 6: Newborn health
27: Samantha Sadoo, Hannah Blencowe, Shefali Oza, Joy Lawn: Introduction to newborn health
28: Hannah Blencowe, Samantha Sadoo, Joy Lawn: Stillbirth
29: Sarah Moxon, Samantha Sadoo , Tom Lissauer: Preterm births
30: Anne CC Lee, Saima Aftab, Lian Folger, Lauren Schaeffer: Intrapartum related events affecting the newborn
31: Anna Seale, Helen Brotherton: Neonatal Infection
32: Sowmi Moorthie: Congenital disorders
33: Gabriela Cormick, Nicole Minckas, José Belizán: Low Birth weight and poor fetal growth
34: Samantha Sadoo, Hannah Blencowe, Joy Lawn, Cally Tann: Strategies to improve newborn health and prevent stillbirths
Section 7: Child health
35: Dan Magnus, Sebastian Taylor, Bhanu Williams: Introduction to child health
36: Mark Lee, Bhanu Williams, Anupam Goenka: Child infection
37: Jonathan Wells: Child nutrition
38: Richard Rosch, Michelle Heyes, Hannah Kuper: Child development and disability
39: Jessica Mvula, Takondwa Chimowa, Elizabeth Molyneux, Bernadette O'Hare: Non-communicable diseases and childhood
40: Therese Hesketh: Children in difficult circumstances
41: Geoff Debelle, Qingfeng Li, Delan Devakumar: Child injury, maltreatment and safeguarding
42: Fred Martineau: Strategies to improve child health
Section 8: Influencing policy
43: Elizabeth Mason, Blerta Maliqi: Converting research into policy
44: Maureen Kelly: Ethics and rights
45: Tony Waterston: Advocacy in maternal and child health
46: David Osrin: Current challenges and debates for women's and children's health