Effect of knowledge of community health workers on essential newborn health care: A study from rural India

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-126

  Agrawal, Praween K ^a   Agrawal, Sutapa ^b   Ahmed, Saifuddin ^c   Darmstadt, Gary L ^d   Williams, Emma K ^c   Rosen, Heather E ^c   Kumar, Vishwajeet ^c,e   Kiran, Usha ^b   Ahuja, Ramesh C ^f   Srivastava, Vinod K ^f   Santosham, Mathuram ^c   Black, Robert E ^c   Baqui, Abdullah H ^c  

^a South Asia Regional Office ^*  (India)

^b South Asia Network for Chronic Disease   (India)

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

^d BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)   (India)

^f KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

community health workers; essential newborn health care practices; generalized estimating equation; Knowledge level; logistic regression; principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INDIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NEWBORN NURSING; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATAL NURSING; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455200851     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czr018     Document Type: Article

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