Clean cord care practices and neonatal mortality: Evidence from rural Uttar Pradesh, India

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 755-758

  Agrawal, Praween K ^a   Agrawa, Sutapa ^b   Mullany, Luke C ^c   Darmstadt, Gary L ^d   Kumar, Vishwajeet ^c,e   Kiran, Usha ^d   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 PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (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 INTEGRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASTE SYSTEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HYGIENE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEONATE; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UMBILICAL CORD;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHERS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UMBILICAL CORD;

INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 84866028512     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200362     Document Type: Article

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