Predictors of essential health and nutrition service delivery in Bihar, India: Results from household and frontline worker surveys

Global Health Science and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 255-273

  Kosec, Katrina ^a   Avula, Rasmi ^a   Holtemeyer, Brian ^a   Tyagi, Parul ^a   Hausladen, Stephanie ^b   Menon, Purnima ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; INFANT; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMUNERATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; MOTIVATION; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; REMUNERATION;

EID: 85018196990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2169575X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00144     Document Type: Review

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