Medicine & Health

Pediatric Medicine

Published June 8, 2016 Curated Collections

In a commitment to increasing the evidence base for improving child health, PLOS journals publish high-quality, Open Access research and commentary on Pediatric Medicine. Open Access publication ensures this crucial evidence is freely available to read and use throughout the world without restriction. In 2014, PLOS Medicine celebrated a decade of publishing. PLOS Medicine marked the journal's tenth anniversary with a call for research papers on the health and well-being of pre-adolescent children, including 10-year-olds, from around the world. The papers that resulted from this call are included below.

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PLOS Medicine Soon PLOS Medicine Will Be Ten: A Call for Papers on the Health of Pre-adolescent Children
January 28, 2014 The PLoS Medicine Editors

From the Blogs

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Speaking of Medicine Improving the health of pre-adolescent children: The latest update to the Pediatric Medicine Collection
May 2, 2014 Rhona MacDonald, Amy Ross

Health in Action

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001371

PLOS Medicine Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: A Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Sudan
January 15, 2013 Mark Jordans, Wietse Tol, Dessy Susanty, Prudence Ntamatumba, Nagendra Luitel, Ivan Komproe, Joop de Jong

Policy Forum

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001656

PLOS Medicine Pediatric Oncology as the Next Global Child Health Priority: The Need for National Childhood Cancer Strategies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
June 17, 2014 Sumit Gupta, Roberto Rivera-Luna, Raul Ribeiro, Scott Howard

Perspectives

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PLOS Medicine Improving Treatment of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Non-specialist Care Providers
December 17, 2013 Mashudat Bello-Mojeed, Muideen Bakare
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PLOS Medicine Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counselling for Children
May 27, 2014 Mary-Ann Davies, Emma Kalk

Essay

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PLOS Medicine Pediatric AIDS in the Elimination Agenda
August 27, 2013 Scott Kellerman, Nandita Sugandhi

Review

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001421

PLOS Medicine Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Challenges in Monitoring the Proportion of Young Children with Pneumonia Who Receive Antibiotic Treatment
May 7, 2013 Harry Campbell, shams elarifeen, tabish hazir, james o'kelly, jennifer bryce, igor rudan, shamim qazi

Research Articles

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001753

PLOS Medicine Association of Adenotonsillectomy with Asthma Outcomes in Children: A Longitudinal Database Analysis
November 4, 2014 Rakesh Bhattacharjee, Beatrix H. Choi, David Gozal, Babak Mokhlesi
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001424

PLOS Medicine Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Population HIV-Free Survival among Children under Two Years of Age in Four African Countries
May 7, 2013 Jeffrey Stringer, Kathryn Stinson, Piuus Tih, Mark Giganti, Didier Ekouevi, Tracy Creek, Thomas Welty, Benjamin Chi, Catherine Wilfert, Nathan Shaffer, Elizabeth Stringer, Francois Dabis, David Coetzee
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001409

PLOS Medicine Young Children’s Probability of Dying Before and After Their Mother’s Death: A Rural South African Population-Based Surveillance Study
March 26, 2013 Samuel Clark, Kathleen Kahn, Brian Houle, Adriane Arteche, Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman, Alan Stein
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0002331

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Dengue and Other Common Causes of Acute Febrile Illness in Asia: An Active Surveillance Study in Children
July 25, 2013 Maria Rosario Capeding, Mary Noreen Chua, Sri Rezeki Hadinegoro, Ismail I H M Hussain, Revathy Nallusamy, Punnee Pitisuttithum, Kusnandi Rusmil, Usa Thisyakorn, Stephen J Thomas, Ngoc Huu Tran, Dewa Nyoman Wirawan, In-Kyu Yoon, Alain Bouckenooghe, Yanee Hutagalung, Thelma Laot, Tram Anh Wartel
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001497

PLOS Medicine Effect of Household-Based Drinking Water Chlorination on Diarrhoea among Children under Five in Orissa, India: A Double-Blind Randomised Placebo-Controlled Trial
August 20, 2013 Sophie Boisson, Matthew Stevenson, Lily Shapiro, Vinod Kumar, Lakhwinder Singh, Dana Ward, Thomas Clasen
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001542

PLOS Medicine Predicting Patterns of Long-Term CD4 Reconstitution in HIV-Infected Children Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cohort-Based Modelling Study
October 29, 2013 Marie-Quitterie Picat, Joanna Lewis, Victor Musiime, Andrew Prendergast, Kusum Nathoo, Addy Kekitiinwa, Patricia Nahirya Ntege, Diana Gibb, Rodolphe Thiebaut, A. Sarah Walker, Nigel Klein, Robin Callard
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001555

PLOS Medicine When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy in Children Aged 2–5 Years: A Collaborative Causal Modelling Analysis of Cohort Studies from Southern Africa
November 19, 2013 Michael Schomaker, Matthias Egger, James Ndirangu, Sam Phiri, Harry Moultrie, Karl Technau, Vivian Cox, Janet Giddy, Cleophas Chimbetete, Robin Wood, Thomas Gsponer, Carolyn Bolton-Moore, Helena Rabie, Brian Eley, Lulu Muhe, Martina Penazzato, Shaffiq Essajee, Olivia Keiser, Mary-Ann Davies
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001484

PLOS Medicine Global Burden of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Children under Five, 2010–2050: Modelling Based on Demographics, Excess Mortality, and Interventions
July 16, 2013 Frédéric Piel, Simon Hay, Sunetra Gupta, David Weatherall, Thomas Williams
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001572

PLOS Medicine Non-Specialist Psychosocial Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability or Lower-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review
December 17, 2013 Brian Reichow, Chiara Servili, M. Yasamy, Corrado Barbui, Shekhar Saxena
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001594

PLOS Medicine Impact of Intermittent Screening and Treatment for Malaria among School Children in Kenya: A Cluster Randomised Trial
January 28, 2014 Katherine Halliday, George Okello, Elizabeth Turner, Kiambo Njagi, Carlos Mcharo, Juddy Kengo, Elizabeth Allen, Margaret Dubeck, Matthew Jukes, Simon Brooker
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001618

PLOS Medicine Assessing Causality in the Association between Child Adiposity and Physical Activity Levels: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis
March 18, 2014 Rebecca Richmond, George Davey Smith, Andy Ness, Marcel den Hoed, George McMahon, Nicholas Timpson
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001649

PLOS Medicine Barriers to Provider-Initiated Testing and Counselling for Children in a High HIV Prevalence Setting: A Mixed Methods Study
May 27, 2014 Katharina Kranzer, Jamilah Meghji, Tsitsi Bandason, Ethel Dauya, Stanley Mungofa, Joanna Busza, Karin Hatzold, Khameer Kidia, Hilda Mujuru, Rashida Ferrand
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001679

PLOS Medicine Mortality after Parental Death in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study from Three Nordic Countries
July 22, 2014 Jiong Li, Mogens Vestergaard, Sven Cnattingius, Mika Gissler, Bodil Bech, Carsten Obel, Jørn Oslen
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001700

PLOS Medicine Hand Sanitiser Provision for Reducing Illness Absences in Primary School Children: A Cluster Randomised Trial
August 12, 2014 Patricia Priest, Joanne McKenzie, Rick Audas, Marion Poore, Cheryl Brunton, Lesley Reeves
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001703

PLOS Medicine Regular Breakfast Consumption and Type 2 Diabetes Risk Markers in 9- to 10-Year-Old Children in the Child Heart and Health Study in England (CHASE): A Cross-Sectional Analysis
September 2, 2014 Angela Donin, Claire Nightingale, Chris Owen, Alicja Rudnicka, Michael Perkin, Susan Jebb, Alison Stephen, Naveed Sattar, Derek Cook, Peter Whincup