Newborn care practices in urban slums: Evidence from central India

Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 277-287

  Agarwal, Siddharth ^a   Sethi, Vani ^a   Srivastava, Karishma ^a   Jha, Prabhat K ^b   Baqui, Abdullah H ^c  

^a Urban Health Resource Centre   (India)

^b Urban Health Resource Center   (India)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Newborn care; Slums; Urban poor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013584897     PISSN: 19345798     EISSN: 18784429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NPM-2009-0081     Document Type: Article

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