Effect of participatory women's groups facilitated by Accredited Social Health Activists on birth outcomes in rural eastern India: A cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages e119-e128

  Tripathy, Prasanta ^a   Nair, Nirmala ^a   Sinha, Rajesh ^a   Rath, Shibanand ^a   Gope, Raj Kumar ^a   Rath, Suchitra ^a   Roy, Swati Sarbani ^a   Bajpai, Aparna ^a   Singh, Vijay ^a   Nath, Vikash ^a   Ali, Sarfraz ^a   Kundu, Alok Kumar ^a   Choudhury, Dibakar ^a   Ghosh, Sanjib Kumar ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Mahapatra, Rajendra ^a   Costello, Anthony ^b   Fottrell, Edward ^b   Houweling, Tanja A J ^c   Prost, Audrey ^b  

^a Ekjut   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SANITATION; TRAINING; YOUNG ADULT; ACCREDITATION; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; ODDS RATIO; PERINATAL DEATH; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; STILLBIRTH;

ACCREDITATION; ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; ODDS RATIO; PERINATAL DEATH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RURAL POPULATION; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957600804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00287-9     Document Type: Article

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