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Argentina

• Archivos argentinos de pediatría
  • RENAC: National Registry of Congenital Anomalies of Argentina [2013]

• Journal of Community Genetics
  • Birth prevalence of congenital anomalies in Argentina, according to socioeconomic level [2021]

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Congenital anomalies 2016 [2022]

Barbados

• ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Major Congenital Malformations in Barbados: The Prevalence, the Pattern, and the Resulting Morbidity and Mortality [2014]

Canada

• Government of Alberta
  • Alberta congenital anomalies surveillance system

• Ontario Health
  • Genome-Wide Sequencing for Unexplained Developmental Disabilities or Multiple Congenital Anomalies: A Health Technology Assessment [2020]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Congenital Anomalies in Canada 2013: A Perinatal Health Surveillance Report by the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System [2015]

China

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The changing epidemiology of syndactyly in Chinese newborns: a nationwide surveillance-based study [2023]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Prevention and Control of Birth Defects in China: Achievements and Challenges [2021]

Colombia

• Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
  • Trends and characteristics of fetal and neonatal mortality due to congenital anomalies, Colombia 1999–2008 [2018]

Denmark

• Clinical Epidemiology
  • Congenital Malformations in Denmark: Considerations for the Use of Danish Health Care Registries [2020]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Epidemiology of Multiple Congenital Anomalies Before and After Implementation of a Nationwide Prenatal Screening Program in Denmark [2021]

Developing countries

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Birth Defects Registries in the Genomics Era: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries [2014]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO events addressing public health priorities: the prevention of congenital and genetic disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [2017]
  • Summary report on the expert meeting on the prevention of congenital and genetic disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 29–31 July 2016 [2016]

Europe

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
  • Estimating Global Burden of Disease due to congenital anomaly: an analysis of European data [2018]

• EUROCAT
  • Linking a European cohort of children born with congenital anomalies to vital statistics and mortality records: A EUROlinkCAT study [2021]
  • Multilevel analyses of related public health indicators: The European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies (EUROCAT) Public Health Indicators [2020]
  • Publications
  • Prevalence charts and tables

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends in congenital anomalies in Europe from 1980 to 2012 [2018]

• Techniques in Coloproctology
  • European consensus meeting of ARM-Net members concerning diagnosis and early management of newborns with anorectal malformations [2015]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Number of births with congenital anomalies
  • Congenital anomalies per 100 000 live births

India

• BMC Pediatrics
  • A national estimate of the birth prevalence of congenital anomalies in India: systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• Indian Journal of Human Genetics
  • Birth defects in India: Hidden truth, need for urgent attention [2013]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • Comprehensive Newborn Screening: Handbook for screening visible birth defects at all delivery points [2016]

International

• Global Birth Defects
  • Global Birth Defects

• International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research
  • Resources

• Journal of Community Genetics
  • Estimating the birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of congenital malformations worldwide [2018]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors of Congenital Anomalies: an Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses [2021]

• Vaccine
  • Congenital anomalies: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2016]

Iran

• Iranian Journal of Public Health
  • Prevalence of Congenital Anomalies in Iran: A Review Article [2017]

Japan

• Journal of Epidemiology
  • Prevalence of Congenital Anomalies in the Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2019]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • A consensus statement on birth defects surveillance, prevention, and care in Latin America and the Caribbean [2019]

Latvia

• Central European Journal of Public Health
  • Monitoring of congenital anomalies in Latvia [2014]

Nepal

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Burden and consequence of birth defects in Nepal-evidence from prospective cohort study [2021]
  • Prevalence of congenital defects including selected neural tube defects in Nepal: results from a health survey [2015]

New Zealand

• New Zealand Congenital Anomalies Registry
  • Data

Republic of Korea

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Increased prevalence of some birth defects in Korea, 2009–2010 [2016]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Trends in the Prevalences of Selected Birth Defects in Korea (2008–2014) [2018]

Russia

• Reproductive Health
  • Prevalence of birth defects in an Arctic Russian setting from 1973 to 2011: a register-based study [2015]

South Africa

• South African Medical Journal
  • South African congenital disorders data, 2006 - 2014 [2016]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Regional review of implementation of national plans for birth defects and training on improving quality of birth defects surveillance [2020]
  • Prevention and surveillance of birth defects [2016]
  • Hospital-based birth defects surveillance: facilitator guide [2016]
  • Hospital-based birth defects surveillance: a guide to establish and operate [2016]
  • Birth defects surveillance in South-East Asia : Report of the regional workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, 15-19 July 2013 [2014]
  • Birth defects in South-East Asia: a public health challenge: Situation analysis. [2013]
  • Birth defects in SEARO

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • Prevalence and associated factors of birth defects among newborns in sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• SAGE Open Medicine
  • Birth prevalence of omphalocele and gastroschisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Sweden

• Pediatric Surgery International
  • Omphalocele: national current birth prevalence and survival [2021]

Taiwan

• Children
  • Reducing Birth Defects by Decreasing the Prevalence of Maternal Chronic Diseases-Evaluated by Linked National Registration Dataset [2022]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A Comparative Prevalence of Birth Defects between Newborns of Immigrant and Native-Born Mothers in Taiwan: Ten Years of Population-Based Data [2021]

United Kingdom

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Trends of Hospital Admissions Due to Congenital Anomalies in England and Wales between 1999 and 2019: An Ecological Study [2021]

• Public Health England
  • NCARDRS congenital anomaly statistics: annual data

• Public Health Scotland
  • Congenital conditions in Scotland

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Idiopathic Congenital Clubfoot [2022]

• Birth Defects Research
  • Prevalence of selected birth defects by maternal nativity status, United States, 1999–2007 [2019]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Infants with Congenital Disorders Identified Through Newborn Screening — United States, 2015–2017 [2020]
  • Infant Mortality Attributable to Birth Defects — United States, 2003–2017 [2020]
  • Inpatient Hospitalization Costs Associated with Birth Defects Among Persons of All Ages — United States, 2013 [2017]
  • Association Between Infant Mortality Attributable to Birth Defects and Payment Source for Delivery [2017]
  • CDC Grand Rounds: Understanding the Causes of Major Birth Defects — Steps to Prevention [2015]
  • Birth Defects / FastStats
  • Birth Defects

• International Scholarly Research Notices
  • Birth Defects Surveillance in the United States: Challenges and Implications of International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification Implementation [2014]

• National Birth Defects Prevention Network
  • Birth Defects Surveillance Guidelines
  • Annual Reports

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Birth defects surveillance: quick reference handbook of selected congenital anomalies and infections [2020]
  • Birth defects surveillance: A manual for programme managers, 2nd Edition [2020]
  • Birth defects surveillance training: facilitator's guide [2015]
  • Birth defects surveillance: atlas of selected congenital anomalies [2014]
  • Birth defects [2010]
  • Congenital disorders: Fact sheet
  • Congenital disorders
  • Congenital conditions
  • Congenital anomalies

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