New Signal Functions to Measure the Ability of Health Facilities to Provide Routine and Emergency Newborn Care

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Gabrysch, Sabine ^a   Civitelli, Giulia ^a,b   Edmond, Karen M ^c   Mathai, Matthews ^d   Ali, Moazzam ^d   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^e   Campbell, Oona M R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; OXYTOCIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; DELIVERY; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEWBORN CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE;

EID: 84870260205     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001340     Document Type: Article

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