Reaching the poor with health interventions: Programme-incidence analysis of seven randomised trials of women's groups to reduce newborn mortality in Asia and Africa

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-41

  Houweling, Tanja A J ^a,b   Morrison, Joanna ^a   Alcock, Glyn ^a   Azad, Kishwar ^c   Das, Sushmita ^d   Hossen, Munir ^c   Kuddus, Abdul ^c   Lewycka, Sonia ^a   Looman, Caspar W ^b   Magar, Bharat Budhathoki ^e   Manandhar, Dharma S ^e   Akter, Mahfuza ^c   Nkhata Dube, Albert Lazarous ^f   Rath, Shibanand ^g   Saville, Naomi ^a   Sen, Aman ^e   Tripathy, Prasanta ^g   Costello, Anthony ^a   Bamjan, Jyoti ^h   Aumon, Bedowra Haq ^h   Madina, Mantu ^h   Malamba, Florida ^h   Basiya, Riddhima Mehta ^h   Pathak, Shrijana ^h   Phiri, Tambosi ^h   Rosato, Mikey ^h   Sah, Kabita ^h   More, Neena Shah ^h   Surve, Sweta ^h   Tiwari, Rinku ^h   Zamawe, Collins O F ^h   Osrin, David ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Diabetic Association of Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^d Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action (SNEHA)   (India)

^e Mother and Infant Research Activities MIRA   (Nepal)

^f MaiMwana Project   (South Africa)

^g Ekjut   (India)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EQUITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; INFANT MORTALITY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WOMENS ORGANIZATION;

BANGLADESH; MALAWI; NEPAL;

ADULT; ASIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALAWI; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASIA, WESTERN; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALAWI; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958123247     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-204685     Document Type: Article

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