Infant death rates and animal-shed delivery in remote rural areas of Nepal

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1447-1456

  Thapa, Narbada ^a   Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi ^b   Geater, Alan F ^b   Ulstein, Magnar ^c   Bechtel, Gregory A ^d  

^a Shree Birendra Hospital   (Nepal)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Dept of Soil and Plant Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal shed delivery; Birth practices; Neonatal death; Nepal; Post neonatal death

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; FERTILITY; INFANT MORTALITY; RURAL PLANNING;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NEPAL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN PERIOD; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; DELIVERY ROOMS; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LIFE TABLES; MIDWIFERY; NEPAL; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SANITATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

NEPAL;

EID: 0034676655     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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