The equity impact of participatory women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality in India: Secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised trial

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 520-532

  Houweling, Tanja A J ^a,b   Tripathy, Prasanta ^c   Nair, Nirmala ^c   Rath, Shibanand ^c   Rath, Suchitra ^c   Gope, Rajkumar ^c   Sinha, Rajesh ^c   Looman, Caspar W ^b   Costello, Anthony ^a   Prost, Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Ekjut   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEONATE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; REGRESSION; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INDIA; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WINTER;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

INDIA;

EID: 84877067590     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt012     Document Type: Article

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