Community-based health workers achieve high coverage in neonatal intervention trials: A case study from Sylhet, Bangladesh

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 610-618

  Shah, Rasheduzzaman ^a,b   Munos, Melinda K ^b   Winch, Peter J ^b   Mullany, Luke C ^b   Mannan, Ishtiaq ^c   Rahman, Syed Moshfiqur ^a   Rahman, Radwanur ^a   Hossain, Daniel ^a   Arifeen, Shams El ^a   Baqui, Abdullah H ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

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

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Chlorhexidine; Cluster randomized trial; Community health workers; Community based studies; Interventions; Neonatal health; Umbilical cord cleansing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649668054     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/jhpn.v28i6.6610     Document Type: Article

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