Guidelines and scientifically-based spina bifida care: Guidance across the lifespan in a global health context

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The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that, if of nothing else, we live in a globalized community. Enthusiasm for evidenced-based medical knowledge is also contagious. Just as the incidence of SARS-CoV-2, the associated coronavirus, has had a borderless impact on global public health, so too neural tube defects have widespread significance. Previously, the concept of 'blue marble health' was introduced as a policy framework to illustrate trends in the geographic distribution of health disparities affecting at-risk populations that live, not only in low-income countries, but also in pockets of the populace in wealthier nations. Subsequently, the Spina Bifida Association's Collaborative Care Network, through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently produced the 'Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida.' While language differences, immigration, cultural beliefs, acculturation, local resources and social determinants of health, must be taken into account when these guidelines are implemented across the globe, they could not come at a more suitable time. The current digital age, as well as open access to this special issue, will ensure their ongoing wide distribution.

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Castillo, J., Castillo, H., & Brei, T. J. (2020). Guidelines and scientifically-based spina bifida care: Guidance across the lifespan in a global health context. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine. IOS Press BV. https://doi.org/10.3233/PRM-200029

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