Keeping newborns warm: Beliefs, practices and potential for behaviour change in rural Ghana

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1118-1124

  Hill, Zelee ^a   Tawiah Agyemang, Charlotte ^b   Manu, Alexander ^b   Okyere, Eunice ^b   Kirkwood, Betty R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community; formative research; home visits; hypothermia; newborn; thermal care

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESEARCH WORK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BATH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PREGNANT WOMAN; RURAL AREA; SKIN CARE; SLEEP PATTERN; WARMING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD CARE; HEALTH; HOME DELIVERY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRE;

GHANA;

BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 77956628976     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02593.x     Document Type: Article

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