Improving Newborn Survival in Low-Income Countries: Community-Based Approaches and Lessons from South Asia

David Osrin (d.osrin@ucl.ac.uk), Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Audrey Prost and Anthony Costello

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Abstract: Obstacles 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.

Keywords: new born; infants; maternal; ailments; health workers; inequlities; community based approach; workers; treatment; mobilization; communication; south asia; low income countries; survival; young age; marriage; urban slums; India; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05
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