Costs and cost-effectiveness of training traditional birth attendants to reduce neonatal mortality in the lufwanyama neonatal survival study (LUNESP)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Sabin, Lora L ^a   Knapp, Anna B ^a   MacLeod, William B ^a   Phiri Mazala, Grace ^b   Kasimba, Joshua ^b,c   Hamer, Davidson H ^a,c,d   Gill, Christopher J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Boston University School of Public Health ^*  (Zambia)

^c Zambia Centre for Applied Health Research and Development   (Zambia)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTERVENTION STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; INFANT MORTALITY; MIDWIFE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; ZAMBIA;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDWIFERY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84860140707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035560     Document Type: Article

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