Newborn care practices and home-based postnatal newborn care programme - Mewat, Haryana, India, 2013

• Main Authors: Latika Nath Sinha (Author), Prabhdeep Kaur (Author), Rakesh Gupta (Author), Suresh Dalpath (Author), Vinod Goyal (Author), Manoj Murhekar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In India, the Home Based Postnatal Newborn Care programme by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) under the National Rural Health Mission was initiated in 2011 to reduce neonatal mortality rates (NMRs). ASHAs get cash incentives for six postnatal home visits for newborn care. We st...