Introducing home based skin-to-skin care for low birth weight newborns: A pilot approach to education and counseling in Ghana

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 42-49

  Bazzano, Alessandra ^a   Hill, Zelee ^b   Tawiah Agyemang, Charlotte ^c   Manu, Alexander ^c   ten Asbroek, Guus ^d   Kirkwood, Betty ^d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community; formative research; kangaroo mother care; low birth weight; newborn; qualitative methodology; skin to skin contact

Indexed keywords

COUNSELING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; KANGAROO CARE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PILOT STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

COUNSELING; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KANGAROO-MOTHER CARE METHOD; MOTHERS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84868626008     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: 17579767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975912453185     Document Type: Article

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