Effect of provision of home-based curative health services by public sector health-care providers on neonatal survival: a community-based cluster-randomised trial in rural Pakistan

• Main Authors: Sajid Soofi, FCSP (Author), Prof Simon Cousens, DipMathStats (Author), Ali Turab, MPH (Author), Yaqub Wasan, MA (Author), Shah Mohammed, MPH (Author), Shabina Ariff, FCSP (Author), Zaid Bhatti, MSc (Author), Imran Ahmed, MSc (Author), Steve Wall, FAAP (Author), Prof Zulfiqar A Bhutta, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Although the effectiveness of community mobilisation and promotive care delivered by community health workers in reducing perinatal and neonatal mortality is well established, evidence in support of home-based neonatal resuscitation and infection management is mixed. We assessed the effe...