Newborn care practices in Pemba Island (Tanzania) and their implications for newborn health and survival

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 194-208

  Thairu, Lucy ^a   Pelto, Gretel ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Islam; Medical anthropology; Saving newborn lives; Swahili; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MASSAGE; MOSLEM; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; TANZANIA;

EID: 47149093348     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2008.00135.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Akida H., Alidina M., Abdalla A., Massamba D., Mganga Y., Mhina G. et al. (1981) Kamusi ya. Kiswahili Sanifu. Oxford University Press: Oxford. Reprinted in Kenya by permission of Oxford University Press.
2. Almroth S. & Bidinger P.D. (1990) No need for water supplementation for exclusively breast-fed infants under hot and arid conditions. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 84, 602-604.
3. Bang A.T., Bang A., Baitule S.B., Reddy M.H., Deshmukh M.D. (1999) Effect of home-based neonatal care and management of sepsis on neonatal mortality: Field trial in India. Lancet 354, 1955-1961.
4. Cutts F.T. (1998) Advances and challenges for the expanded programme on immunization. British Medical Bulletin 54, 445-461.
5. Darmstadt G.L. & Saha S.K. (2002) Traditional practice of oil massage of neonates in Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition 20, 184-188.
6. Edmond K.M., Kirkwood B.R., Amenga-Etego S., Owusu-Agyei S., Hurt L.S. (2007) Effect of early infant feeding practices on infection-specific neonatal mortality: An investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural Ghana. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 86, 1126-1131.
7. Esrey S.A., Habicht J.P., Latham M.C., Sisler D.G., Casella G. (1988) Drinking water source, diarrheal morbidity, and child growth in villages with both traditional and improved water supplies in rural Lesotho, southern Africa. American Journal of Public Health 78, 1451-1455.
8. Fikree F.F., Ali T.S., Durocher J.M., Rahbar M.H. (2005) Newborn care practices in low socioeconomic settlements of Karachi, Pakistan. Society of Science and Medicine 60, 911-921.
9. Goldman H. (1996) A Comparative Study of Swahili in Two Rural Communities in Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Anthropology Department, New York University: New York.
10. Huffman S.L., Zehner E.R., Victora C. (2001) Can improvements in breast-feeding practices reduce neonatal mortality in developing countries? Midwifery 17, 80-92.
11. Kramer M.S. & Kakuma R. (2004) The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: A systematic review. Advances in Experimental Medicine Biology 554, 63-77.
12. Laderman C. (1987) Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA.
13. Lawn J. & Kerber K. (eds) (2006) Opportunities for Africa's Newborns: Practical Data, Policy and Programmatic Support for Newborn Care in Africa. Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH): Cape Town, South Africa.
14. Lawn J.E., Cousens S., Zupan J. (2005) 4 million neonatal deaths: When? Where? Why? Lancet 365, 891-900.
15. Martines J., Paul V.K., Bhutta Z.A., Koblinsky M., Soucat A., Neff W. et al. (2005) Neonatal survival: A call for action. Lancet 365, 1189-1197.
16. Mohammed S.M. (2002) A review of water quality and pollution studies in Tanzania. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 31, 617-620.
17. Mullany L.C., Darmstadt G.L., Khatry S.K., Tielsch J.M. (2005) Traditional massage of newborns in Nepal: Implications for trials of improved practice. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 51, 82-86.
18. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) [Tanzania]and ORC Macro (2005) Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey, 2004-2005. National Bureau of Statistics and ORC Macro: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
19. Ngubane H. (1977) Body and Mind in Zulu Medicine: An Ethnography of Health and Disease in Nyuswa-Zulu Thought and Practice. Academic Press: London.
20. Osrin D., Tumbahangphe K.M., Shrestha D., Mesko N., Shrestha B.P., Manandhar M.K. et al. (2002) Cross sectional, community based study of care of newborn infants in Nepal. BMJ 325, 1063.
21. Pelto P.J. & Pelto G.H. (1997) Studying knowledge, culture and behavior in applied medical anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11, 147-163.
22. QSR (2002) Nud*ist 6: Release 6. QSR International Pty Ltd: Doncaster, Victoria, Australia.
23. Saucier J-F (1972) Correlates of the long post-partum taboo: A cross cultural study. Current Anthropology 13, 238-258.
24. Shakya K. & McMurray C. (2001) Neonatal mortality and maternal health care in Nepal: Searching for patterns of association. Journal of Biosoc Science 33, 87-105.
25. Tschida P. (2004) Development and Evaluation of an Infant Feeding Improvement Program for Zanzibar: Tanzania, East Africa. John's Hopkins School of Public Health: Baltimore, MD.
26. WHO (1996) Essential Newborn Care: Report of a Technical Workshop, Trieste, 25-29 April 1994. World Health Organization: Geneva, Switzerland.
27. Winch P.J., Alam M.A., Akther A., Afroz D., Ali N.A., Ellis A.A. et al. (2005) Local understandings of vulnerability and protection during the neonatal period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh: A qualitative study. Lancet 366, 478-485.