Neurodevelopmental disorders in children aged 2-9 years: Population-based burden estimates across five regions in India.

<h4>Background</h4>Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) compromise the development and attainment of full social and economic potential at individual, family, community, and country levels. Paucity of data on NDDs slows down policy and programmatic action in most developing countries desp...

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Main Authors: Narendra K Arora, M K C Nair, Sheffali Gulati, Vaishali Deshmukh, Archisman Mohapatra, Devendra Mishra, Vikram Patel, Ravindra M Pandey, Bhagabati C Das, Gauri Divan, G V S Murthy, Thakur D Sharma, Savita Sapra, Satinder Aneja, Monica Juneja, Sunanda K Reddy, Praveen Suman, Sharmila B Mukherjee, Rajib Dasgupta, Poma Tudu, Manoja K Das, Vinod K Bhutani, Maureen S Durkin, Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Donald H Silberberg, Rajesh Sagar, Faruqueuddin Ahmed, Nandita Babu, Sandeep Bavdekar, Vijay Chandra, Zia Chaudhuri, Tanuj Dada, Rashna Dass, M Gourie-Devi, S Remadevi, Jagdish C Gupta, Kumud K Handa, Veena Kalra, Sunil Karande, Ramesh Konanki, Madhuri Kulkarni, Rashmi Kumar, Arti Maria, Muneer A Masoodi, Manju Mehta, Santosh Kumar Mohanty, Harikumaran Nair, Poonam Natarajan, A K Niswade, Atul Prasad, Sanjay K Rai, Paul S S Russell, Rohit Saxena, Shobha Sharma, Arun K Singh, Gautam B Singh, Leena Sumaraj, Saradha Suresh, Alok Thakar, Sujatha Parthasarathy, Bhadresh Vyas, Ansuman Panigrahi, Munish K Saroch, Rajan Shukla, K V Raghava Rao, Maria P Silveira, Samiksha Singh, Vivek Vajaratkar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-07-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002615