Home visits by community health workers to prevent neonatal deaths in developing countries: a systematic review

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether home visits for neonatal care by community health workers can reduce infant and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in resource-limited settings. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review up to 2008 of controlled trials comparing various intervention packages, one of them...

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Main Authors: Siddhartha Gogia, Harshpal Singh Sachdev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2010-09-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000900009&lng=en&tlng=en