Filtered sunlight, solar powered phototherapy and other strategies for managing neonatal jaundice in low-resource settings
| Autor: | J A Owa, Tina M. Slusher, Tolulope Ogundele, Louise T Day, Nick Woolfield |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Low resource business.industry Infant Newborn Obstetrics and Gynecology Phototherapy Jaundice Jaundice Neonatal 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Treatment modality 030225 pediatrics Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Health care medicine Humans Female 030212 general & internal medicine medicine.symptom Solar powered Intensive care medicine business Developing Countries Healthcare providers Heliotherapy |
| Zdroj: | Early Human Development. 114:11-15 |
| ISSN: | 0378-3782 |
| Popis: | Challenges in treating severe neonatal jaundice in low and middle-income country settings still exist at many levels. These include: a lack of awareness of causes and prevention by families, communities and even sometimes health care professionals; insufficient, ineffective, high quality affordable diagnostic and therapeutic options; limited availability of rehabilitation provision for kernicterus. Collectively these challenges lead to an unacceptably high global morbidity and mortality from severe neonatal jaundice. In the past decade, there has been an explosion of innovations addressing some of these issues and these are increasingly available for scale up. Scientists, healthcare providers, and communities are joining hands to explore educational tools, low cost screening and diagnostic options including at point-of-care and treatment modalities including filtered sunlight and solar powered phototherapy. For the first time, the possibility of eliminating the tragedy of preventable morbidity and mortality from severe NNJ is on the horizon, for all. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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