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

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  • David Osrin
  • Nirmala Nair
  • Prasanta Tripathy
  • Audrey Prost
  • Anthony Costello

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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.

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  • David Osrin & Nirmala Nair & Prasanta Tripathy & Audrey Prost & Anthony Costello, 2010. "Improving Newborn Survival in Low-Income Countries: Community-Based Approaches and Lessons from South Asia," Working Papers id:2480, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2480
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    1. Mary B Adam & Maria Dillmann & Mei-kuang Chen & Simon Mbugua & Joram Ndung’u & Priscilla Mumbi & Eunice Waweru & Peter Meissner, 2014. "Improving Maternal and Newborn Health: Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Program in Rural Kenya," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(8), pages 1-8, August.

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