South-Africa (Goodstart III) trial: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 32, Issue , 2017, Pages i53-i63

  Daviaud, Emmanuelle ^a   Nkonki, Lungiswa ^a,b   Ijumba, Petrida ^a   Doherty, Tanya ^a,c   Lawn, Joy E ^d   Owen, Helen ^a,c   Jackson, Debra ^a,c   Tomlinson, Mark ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c University of the Western   (South Africa)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community health worker; economic; human resources; maternal; Newborn; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUTH AFRICA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 85030706520     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czw112     Document Type: Article

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