Improving Newborn Survival in Low-Income Countries: Community-Based Approaches and Lessons from South Asia
Published By: Plos Medicine on eSS | Published Date: April, 03 , 2010Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to
health services; care-seeking for maternal and newborn ailments is limited;
health workers are often not skilled and confident in caring for newborn infants;
and there are inequalities across all these factors.
The best community-based approach is a combination of community
mobilization and home visits by community-based workers. Both timing of
visits and treatment interventions are critical.
Author(s): David Osrin, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Audrey Prost, Anthony Costello | Posted on: May 03, 2010 | Views(1320) | Download (674)