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Anemia

Afghanistan

• PLoS ONE
  • Reducing Anemia Prevalence in Afghanistan: Socioeconomic Correlates and the Particular Role of Agricultural Assets [2016]

Africa

• SAGE Open Medicine
  • Anemia in African malnourished pre-school children: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Scientific Reports
  • Prevalence and types of anemia among people with tuberculosis in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

Angola

• Porto Biomedical Journal
  • Anemia in preschool children from Angola: a review of the evidence [2020]

Australia

• BMJ Open
  • Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia associated with body mass index in Australian adults: a cross-sectional study [2022]

Australia, New Zealand

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • The management of peri-operative anaemia in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery in Australia and New Zealand: a prospective cohort study [2022]

Bangladesh

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Determinants of anemia among 6–59 months aged children in Bangladesh: evidence from nationally representative data [2016]

• BMC Public Health
  • Inequality, chronic undernutrition, maternity, and diabetes mellitus as the determinant of anemia among ever-married women in Bangladesh [2021]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Differentials in the prevalence of anemia among non-pregnant, ever-married women in Bangladesh: multilevel logistic regression analysis of data from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey [2015]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence of Anemia among Children and Adolescents of Bangladesh: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]

Brazil

• BMC Women's Health
  • Anemia among indigenous women in Brazil: findings from the First National Survey of Indigenous People’s Health and Nutrition [2016]

• Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  • Prevalence of anemia in Brazilian adults and elderly [2019]

Cambodia

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Anemia in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study of anemia, socioeconomic status and other associated risk factors in rural women [2015]
  • Anemia in Cambodia: prevalence, etiology and research needs [2012]

Cameroon

• BioMed Research International
  • Determining Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associated Factors in Cameroon: A Multilevel Analysis [2021]

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Blood donation and anemia [2016]

Cape Verde

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Prevalence of Anaemia and Associated Factors among Children below Five Years of Age in Cape Verde, West Africa [2014]

China

• BMC Public Health
  • Increased prevalence and incidence of anemia among adults in transforming rural China: two cross-sectional surveys [2015]

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence and health correlates of anaemia among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study [2020]

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Anaemia prevalence and its associated factors in children under 5 years in Western China: a systematic review [2022]

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Prevalence and intervention of preoperative anemia in Chinese adults: A retrospective cross-sectional study based on national preoperative anemia database [2021]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence and Temporal Trend (2016–2018) of Anaemia among 6–23-Month-Old Infants and Young Children in China [2021]
  • Prevalence of Anemia and its Associated Factors among Chinese 9-, 12-, and 14-Year-Old Children: Results from 2014 Chinese National Survey on Students Constitution and Health [2020]
  • Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Association with Anaemia Prevalence and Haemoglobin Levels in Chinese Older Adults [2020]
  • Prevalence and Risk Factors for Anemia in Non-pregnant Childbearing Women from the Chinese Fifth National Health and Nutrition Survey [2019]

• Nutrients
  • Regional Differences in the Prevalence of Anaemia and Associated Risk Factors among Infants Aged 0–23 Months in China: China Nutrition and Health Surveillance [2021]

East Africa

• Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Magnitudes of Anemia and Its Determinant Factors Among Lactating Mothers in East African Countries: Using the Generalized Mixed-Effect Model [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Anemia and its associated factors among women of reproductive age in eastern Africa: A multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear model [2020]

Ecuador

• PLoS ONE
  • Anemia in women of reproductive age in Ecuador: Data from a national survey [2020]

Ethiopia

• African Health Sciences
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and predictors of anemia among children in Ethiopia [2020]

• BMC Hematology
  • Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors in human immuno deficiency virus infected adult individuals in Ethiopia. A systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• BMC Public Health
  • Multilevel proportional odds modeling of anaemia prevalence among under five years old children in Ethiopia [2023]
  • Decision-making autonomy of women and other factors of anemia among married women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of a countrywide survey [2021]

• BMC Research Notes
  • The contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to socioeconomic inequality in childhood anemia in Ethiopia: a regression-based decomposition analysis [2019]

• BMJ Open
  • Spatio-temporal distribution and associated factors of anaemia among children aged 6–59 months in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis based on the EDHS 2005–2016 [2021]
  • Anaemia prevalence and associated factors among lactating mothers in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2005 and 2011 demographic and health surveys [2015]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Coexistence of Anaemia and Stunting among Children Aged 6-59 Months in Ethiopia: Findings from the Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study [2023]

• Journal of Nutritional Science
  • Disparities in the prevalence and risk factors of anaemia among children aged 6–24 months and 25–59 months in Ethiopia [2020]

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Anaemia and its determinants among young children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia (2005–2016) [2021]

• Nutrients
  • Prevalence Rate and Associated Risk Factors of Anaemia among under Five Years Children in Ethiopia [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Trend and factors associated with anemia among women reproductive age in Ethiopia: A multivariate decomposition analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey [2023]
  • Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among adolescent girls in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Geographically weighted regression analysis of anemia and its associated factors among reproductive age women in Ethiopia using 2016 demographic and health survey [2022]
  • Spatial variations and determinants of anemia among under-five children in Ethiopia, EDHS 2005–2016 [2021]
  • Spatiotemporal patterns of anemia among lactating mothers in Ethiopia using data from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys (2005, 2011 and 2016) [2020]
  • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among young (15–24 years) women in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data [2020]
  • Individual and community level factors associated with anemia among children 6—59 months of age in Ethiopia: A further analysis of 2016 Ethiopia demographic and health survey [2020]

• Scientific Reports
  • Determinants of anemia severity levels among children aged 6-59 months in Ethiopia: Multilevel Bayesian statistical approach [2023]

• Systematic Reviews
  • Prevalence of anemia among school-age children in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Risk factors for anemia in children under 6 years of age in Ethiopia: analysis of the data from the cross-sectional Malaria Indicator Survey, 2007 [2013]

• Women's Health
  • Menstrual abnormality, maternal illiteracy, and household factors as main predictors of anemia among adolescent girls in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Europe

• British Society for Haematology
  • The use of next-generation sequencing in the diagnosis of rare inherited anaemias: A Joint BSH/EHA Good Practice Paper [2022]

France

• Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine
  • Management and prevention of anemia (acute bleeding excluded) in adult critical care patients [2020]

Germany

• Advances in Therapy
  • Estimating the Epidemiological and Economic Impact of Implementing Preoperative Anaemia Measures in the German Healthcare System: The Health Economic Footprint of Patient Blood Management [2020]

Ghana

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence of anemia among under-5 children in the Ghanaian population: estimates from the Ghana demographic and health survey [2014]

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Risk factors for anaemia among Ghanaian women and children vary by population group and climate zone [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Association between health insurance membership and anaemia among children under-five years. Evidence from Ghana [2020]

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Ghana: Landscape Analysis of Anemia and Anemia Programming [2016]

India

• BMC Public Health
  • To what extent classic socio-economic determinants explain trends of anaemia in tribal and non-tribal women of reproductive age in India? Findings from four National Family Heath Surveys (1998-2021) [2023]
  • Key drivers of reversal of trend in childhood anaemia in India: evidence from Indian demographic and health surveys, 2016-21 [2023]
  • Socio-economic inequality in anaemia among men in India: a study based on cross-sectional data [2021]
  • Anaemia among mother-father-child pairs in India: examining co-existence of triple burden of anaemia in a family [2021]

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Nutritional Anemia in Children: Recommendations of the Joint Committee of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Chapter and Pediatric and Adolescent Nutrition Society of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics [2022]

• Jornal de Pediatria
  • Socio-economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia [2015]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Haemoglobin thresholds to define anaemia in a national sample of healthy children and adolescents aged 1–19 years in India: a population-based study [2021]

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Anaemia in Indians aged 10-19 years: Prevalence, burden and associated factors at national and regional levels [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends in prevalence and determinants of severe and moderate anaemia among women of reproductive age during the last 15 years in India [2023]
  • Prevalence of anemia among reproductive women in different social group in India: Cross-sectional study using nationally representative data [2023]

Indonesia

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Intersectoral and eco-nutritional approaches to resolve persistent anemia in Indonesia [2020]
  • Anaemia prevalence over time in Indonesia: estimates from the 1997, 2000, and 2008 Indonesia Family Life Surveys [2015]

• Epidemiology and Health
  • Maternal pre-pregnancy anemia and childhood anemia in Indonesia: a risk assessment using a population-based prospective longitudinal study [2022]

• Geospatial Health
  • Spatial distribution and identifying biochemical factors affecting haemoglobin levels among women of reproductive age for each province in Indonesia: A geospatial analysis [2022]

International

• Annals of Surgery
  • Recommendations From the International Consensus Conference on Anemia Management in Surgical Patients (ICCAMS) [2023]

• Blood
  • A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010 [2014]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Preanalytic and analytic factors affecting the measurement of haemoglobin concentration: impact on global estimates of anaemia prevalence [2021]
  • The burden of anaemia among displaced women and children in refugee settings worldwide, 2013–2016 [2019]

• Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Anemia

• Lancet Global Health
  • National, regional, and global estimates of anaemia by severity in women and children for 2000-19: a pooled analysis of population-representative data [2022]
  • Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995–2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data [2013]

• Lancet Haematology
  • Prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anaemia burden by severity and cause, 1990-2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2023]

• Perioperative Medicine
  • “Simplified International Recommendations for the Implementation of Patient Blood Management” (SIR4PBM) [2017]

Iran

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among Iranian population aged >=35 years: A PERSIAN cohort–based cross-sectional study [2022]

Israel

• Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • Reducing infantile anemia: insight on patterns of process and outcome indicators by ethnicity and socioeconomic class during a 10-year intervention program and 5 years after [2022]

Japan

• Scientific Reports
  • Prevalence of and factors related to anemia among Japanese adult women: Secondary data analysis using health check-up database [2019]

Jordan

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • The prevalence and determinants of anaemia in Jordan [2019]
  • Prevalence and risk factors of anaemia among ever-married women in Jordan [2019]

Laos

• Anemia
  • Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associate Factors among Women of Reproductive Age in Lao PDR: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A multilevel analysis [2021]

Latin America

• Revista de Saúde Pública
  • Prevalence of anemia among Indigenous children in Latin America: a systematic review [2022]

• Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Double Burden of Excess Weight and Anemia in Latin American Children up to 2019 [2020]

Lesotho

• African Health Sciences
  • Household and individual risk factors of anaemia among under-5 children in Lesotho [2020]

• BMC Public Health
  • Joint modelling of anaemia and stunting in children less than five years of age in Lesotho: a cross-sectional case study [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Anaemia in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries: progress towards the 2025 global nutrition target [2022]

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Prevalence and changes of anemia among young children and women in 47 low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018 [2021]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Associations between type of blood collection, analytical approach, mean haemoglobin and anaemia prevalence in population-based surveys: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Journal of Nutrition
  • Trends in the Intraindividual Double Burden of Overweight/Obesity and Anemia among Adult Women Living in 33 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Secondary Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 2000-2019 [2023]

• Nature Medicine
  • Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018 [2021]

• Nutrients
  • Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age: An Overview of Global Burden, Trends, Determinants, and Drivers of Progress in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2021]

Malaysia

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associated Factors among Older Persons: Findings from the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2015 [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Haematological Reference Intervals in a Multiethnic Population [2014]

Mali

• BMC Women's Health
  • Sociodemographic factors associated with anemia among reproductive age women in Mali; evidenced by Mali malaria indicator survey 2021: spatial and multilevel mixed effect model analysis [2023]

Myanmar

• American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Prevalence of Anemia and Its Risk Factors Among Lactating Mothers in Myanmar [2014]

Nepal

• BMJ Open
  • Factors affecting anaemia among women of reproductive age in Nepal: a multilevel and spatial analysis [2021]

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Trends and determinants of anaemia in women of Nepal: a multilevel analysis [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and risk factors of childhood anemia in Nepal: A multilevel analysis [2020]

Nigeria

• Anemia
  • Statistical Modeling of Determinants of Anemia Prevalence among Children Aged 6–59 Months in Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study [2020]

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Ecological analysis of demographic-, nutritional- and housing-related factors associated with anaemia among women of reproductive age group in Nigeria [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of childhood anemia: Potential sociodemographic and dietary factors in Nigeria [2022]

• Women's Health
  • Determinants of anaemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in Nigeria: A cross-sectional study using secondary data from Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 2018 [2022]

Peru

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Inequalities in anemia among Peruvian children aged 6-59 months: A decomposition analysis [2023]

• Nutrients
  • Women's Autonomy and Anemia in Children under Five Years of Age: A Peruvian Population-Based Survey [2023]

• Rural and Remote Health
  • Rural and urban disparities in anemia among Peruvian children aged 6-59 months: a multivariate decomposition and spatial analysis [2022]

Republic of Guinea

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Anemia among Children under 5 Years in Guinea [2021]

Republic of Korea

• Annals of Laboratory Medicine
  • Complete Blood Count Reference Intervals and Patterns of Changes Across Pediatric, Adult, and Geriatric Ages in Korea [2018]

• BMC Geriatrics
  • High anemia prevalence in Korean older adults, an advent healthcare problem: 2007–2016 KNHANES [2020]

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
  • Changes in the prevalence of anemia in Korean adolescents, 1998–2018 [2021]

Somalia

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Risk factors of anaemia and iron deficiency in Somali children and women: Findings from the 2019 Somalia Micronutrient Survey [2022]

South and Southeast Asia

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and factors associated with anemia among women of reproductive age in seven South and Southeast Asian countries: Evidence from nationally representative surveys [2020]

South Asia

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of anemia in diabetes mellitus in South Asia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Prevalence of and factors associated with anaemia in women of reproductive age in Bangladesh, Maldives and Nepal: Evidence from nationally-representative survey data [2021]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Archives of Public Health
  • Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among married women in 19 sub-Saharan African countries [2021]

• BioMed Research International
  • Variations and Determinants of Anemia among Reproductive Age Women in Five Sub-Saharan Africa Countries [2021]

• BMJ Open
  • Household cooking fuel type and childhood anaemia in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of cross-sectional surveys of 123, 186 children from 29 countries [2021]

• British Journal of Haematology
  • Transfusion management of severe anaemia in African children: a consensus algorithm [2021]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Key Determinants of Anemia among Youngsters under Five Years in Senegal, Malawi, and Angola [2020]
  • A Scoping Review of the Risk Factors Associated with Anaemia among Children Under Five Years in Sub-Saharan African Countries [2020]

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Anaemia among under-five children: Is maternal marriage at 18th birthday and above protective? Evidence from 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Relationship between history of hormonal contraceptive use and anaemia status among women in sub-Saharan Africa: A large population-based study [2023]
  • Multilevel analysis of determinants of anemia among young women (15-24) in sub-Sahara Africa [2022]
  • Prevalence and determinants of severity levels of anemia among children aged 6–59 months in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel ordinal logistic regression analysis [2021]

• Scientific Reports
  • The epidemiological landscape of anemia in women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]

Sudan

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Anaemia prevalence and determinants in under 5 years children: findings of a cross-sectional population-based study in Sudan [2020]

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and determinants of anaemia in women of reproductive age in Sudan: analysis of a cross-sectional household survey [2020]

Tanzania

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Targeted and Population-Wide Interventions Are Needed to Address the Persistent Burden of Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age in Tanzania [2022]

Thailand

• Scientific Reports
  • Prevalence of anemia and association with mortality in community-dwelling elderly in Thailand [2022]

Uganda

• American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Prevalence and Factors Associated with Anemia Among Children Under 5 Years of Age—Uganda, 2009 [2015]

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Spatial variation and attributable risk factors of anaemia among young children in Uganda: Evidence from a nationally representative survey [2023]

United Kingdom

• British Society for Haematology
  • British Committee for Standards in Haematology Guidelines on the Identification and Management of Pre-Operative Anaemia [2015]
  • Guidelines on the management of anaemia and red cell transfusion in adult critically ill patients [2013]

• Centre for Perioperative Care
  • Anaemia in the Perioperative Pathway [2022]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Evidence review for preoperative management of anaemia [2020]

• NHS England
  • Treatment of iron overload for transfused and non-transfused patients with chronic inherited anaemias (all ages) [2022]

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Anaemia: migrant health guide

United States

• American College of Physicians
  • Treatment of Anemia in Patients With Heart Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians [2013]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Anemia

• JAMA Network Open
  • Prevalence of Appropriate Testing for Incident Anemia in the US Department of Veterans Affairs [2021]

• Journal of Community Health
  • Adolescent Anemia Screening During Ambulatory Pediatric Visits in the United States [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • The Prevalence of Anemia and Moderate-Severe Anemia in the US Population (NHANES 2003-2012) [2016]

West and Central Africa

• Journal of Global Health
  • Levels and trends of adolescent girl’s undernutrition and anemia in West and Central Africa from 1998 to 2017 [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Guideline on haemoglobin cutoffs to define anaemia in individuals and populations [2024]
  • Accelerating anaemia reduction: a comprehensive framework for action: web annex: WHO recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis and management of anaemia [2023]
  • Accelerating anaemia reduction: a comprehensive framework for action [2023]
  • WHO methods and data sources for mean haemoglobin and anaemia estimates in women of reproductive age and pre-school age children 2000-2019 [2021]
  • Global anaemia reduction efforts among women of reproductive age: impact, achievement of targets and the way forward for optimizing efforts [2020]
  • Nutritional anaemias: tools for effective prevention and control [2017]
  • The global prevalence of anaemia in 2011 [2015]
  • Global nutrition targets 2025: anaemia policy brief [2014]
  • Haemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anaemia and assessment of severity [2011]
  • Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005 : WHO global database on anaemia [2008]
  • Prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age (aged 15-49) (%)
  • Prevalence of anaemia in non-pregnant women (aged 15-49) (%)
  • Prevalence of anaemia in children aged 6–59 months (%)
  • Prevalence of anaemia in children <5 years
  • Number of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
  • Number of non-pregnant women (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
  • Number of children aged 6–59 months with anaemia (thousands)
  • Anaemia: Fact sheet
  • Anaemia in women and children
  • Anaemia

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Are Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region on Track towards Meeting the World Health Assembly Target for Anemia? A Review of Evidence [2021]

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Anaemia

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