Effectiveness of weekly cell phone counselling calls and daily text messages to improve breastfeeding indicators

• Main Authors: Archana Patel (Author), Priyanka Kuhite (Author), Amrita Puranik (Author), Samreen Sadaf Khan (Author), Jitesh Borkar (Author), Leena Dhande (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• נושאים: article
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Abstract Background Every year, nearly one million deaths occur due to suboptimal breastfeeding. If universally practiced, exclusive breastfeeding alone prevents 11.6% of all under 5 deaths. Among strategies to improve exclusive breastfeeding rates, counselling by peers or health workers, has proven...