Protocol for the economic evaluation of a community-based intervention to improve growth among children under two in rural India (CARING trial)

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Skordis Worrall, Jolene ^a   Sinha, Rajesh ^b   Ojha, Amit Kumar ^b   Sarangi, Soumendra ^b   Nair, Nirmala ^b   Tripathy, Prasanta ^b   Sachdev, H S ^c   Bhattacharyya, Sanghita ^d   Gope, Rajkumar ^b   Rath, Shibanand ^b   Rath, Suchitra ^b   Srivastava, Aradhana ^d   Batura, Neha ^a   Pulkki Brännström, Anni Maria ^a,e   Costello, Anthony ^a   Copas, Andrew ^a   Saville, Naomi ^a   Prost, Audrey ^a   Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ekjut   (India)

^c SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CENTER; HOME VISIT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FOOD ASSISTANCE; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD ASSISTANCE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84994512377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012046     Document Type: Article

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