Advancing newborn health: The Saving Newborn Lives initiative

Global Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-47

  Tinker, A ^a   Parker, R ^b   Lord, D ^a   Grear, K ^a  

^a SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Community based care; Neonatal mortality; Newborn; State of the art

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK REDUCTION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT WELFARE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PERINATAL CARE; REVIEW; STANDARD;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; PERINATAL CARE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77449101439     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441690903286572     Document Type: Article

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