ArticleISRN pediatrics2012
High neonatal mortality rates in rural India: what options to explore?
Article in ISRN pediatrics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effects of community health worker interventions on socioeconomic inequities in maternal and newborn health in low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMJ global health · 2019Pooled it
- Is essential newborn care provided by institutions and after home births? Analysis of prospective data from community trials in rural South Asia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2014Trial
- Acceptability and operational feasibility of community health worker-led home phototherapy treatment for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in rural Bangladesh.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
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- State of newborn health in India.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2016Review
- Availability and Quality of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Bangladesh.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2016Article
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- Population-based estimates of still birth, induced abortion and miscarriage in the Indian state of Bihar.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2014Article
- Development and Utility of Tools to Identify Preventable Perinatal Deaths: Results from a Community-based Interventional Study in Two Districts of Karnataka State, India.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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Abstract
The neonatal mortality rate in India is amongst the highest in the world and skewed towards rural areas. Nonavailability of trained manpower along with poor healthcare infrastructure is one of the major hurdles in ensuring quality neonatal care. We reviewed case studies and relevant literature from low and middle income countries and documented alternative strategies that have proved to be favourable in improving neonatal health. The authors reiterate the fact that recruiting and retaining trained manpower in rural areas by all means is essential to improve the quality of neonatal care services. Besides this, other strategies such as training of local rural healthcare providers and traditional midwives, promoting home-based newborn care, and creating community awareness and mobilization also hold enough potential to influence the neonatal health positively and efforts should be made to implement them on a larger scale. More research is demanded for innovations such as "m-health" and public-private partnerships as they have been shown to offer potential in terms of improving the standards of care. The above proposed strategy is likely to reduce morbidity among neonatal survivors as well.
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