Improving newborn survival in low-income countries: Community-based approaches and lessons from South Asia

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Nair, Nirmala ^a   Tripathy, Prasanta ^a   Prost, Audrey ^b   Costello, Anthony ^b   Osrin, David ^b  

^a Ekjut   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOME CARE; HOME DELIVERY; INFANT MORTALITY; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; SURVIVAL RATE; ASIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ASIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77951728357     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000246     Document Type: Article

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