Community-Based Intervention Packages for Improving Perinatal Health in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 462-476

  Schiffman, Jessica ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^a   Agarwal, Siddharth ^a   Baqui, Abdullah H ^a  

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

Author keywords

Community based; Intervention packages; Neonatal health; Neonatal mortality; Urban slums

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMMUNITY CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STILLBIRTH;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL WELFARE; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 78549275791     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2010.09.008     Document Type: Review

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