An innovative model of home-based neonatal care and research in India
| Autor: | Woods Dl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Primary health care Developing country India Ignorance Rural Health Nursing Pregnancy Medicine Wife Humans Developing Countries Health Education media_common Home Childbirth Community Health Workers Poverty business.industry Infant Newborn Home based Perinatal Care Work (electrical) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Infant Care Female Rural area business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatrics. 117(4) |
| ISSN: | 1098-4275 |
| Popis: | The greatest burden of childhood illness occurs in developing countries where neonatal mortality accounts for two thirds of infant deaths.1 A lack of access to appropriate primary health care for newborn infants, together with social factors such as poverty and ignorance, explain this woeful situation. Excellent guidance on practical ways to tackle this crisis successfully is provided in a recent supplement to the Journal of Perinatology ,2 which presented 12 articles on an extensive field trial of home-based neonatal care in Gadchiroli, a very poor, rural area in India. This groundbreaking study of care and research was led by Dr Abhay Bang and his wife, Dr Rani Bang, who work … Address correspondence to David L. Woods, MD, FRCP, H46, Old Main Building, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town 7925, South Africa. E-mail: dlwood{at}uctgsh1.uct.ac.za |
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