Bolajoko O Olusanya, Melissa Gladstone, Scott M Wright, Mijna Hadders-Algra, Nem-Yun Boo, M K C Nair, Nihad Almasri, Vijaya Kancherla, Maureen E Samms-Vaughan, Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige, Tracey Smythe, Christie Del Castillo-Hegyi, Ricardo Halpern, Olaf K de Camargo, Jalal Arabloo, Aziz Eftekhari, Amira Shaheen, Sheffali Gulati, Andrew N Williams, Jacob O Olusanya, Donald Wertlieb, Charles R J Newton, Adrian C Davis
Objective: Children with developmental disabilities are associated with a high risk of poor school enrollment and educational attainment without timely and appropriate support. Epidemiological data on cerebral palsy and associated comorbidities required for policy intervention in global health are lacking. This paper set out to report the best available evidence on the global and regional prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) and developmental intellectual disability and the associated "years lived with disability" (YLDs) among children under 5 years of age in 2019...
2022: Frontiers in Public Health