Cost and impact of scaling up interventions to save lives of mothers and children: Taking South Africa closer to MDGs 4 and 5

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chola, Lumbwe ^a   Pillay, Yogan ^b   Barron, Peter ^c   Tugendhaft, Aviva ^a   Kerber, Kate ^d,e   Hofman, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Child health; Cost and cost analysis; Maternal health

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LABOR; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; MOTHER; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSMISSION;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84930683698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.27265     Document Type: Article

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