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Improving newborn infant health in developing countries /
Until recently policy makers and health professionals in developing countries have neglected newborn care, even though 70% of infant deaths occur during the first month of life. The principles of essential newborn care are simple: resuscitation, warmth to avoid hypothermia, early breast-feeding, hyg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : River Edge, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; World Scientific [distributor],
©2000.
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- Section 1. Current status of newborn infants and perinatal health in South Asia. ch. 1. Current state of the health of newborn infants in developing countries / Anthony Costello and Dharma Manandhar
- ch. 2. Recent trends in perinatal health in South Asia
- Section 2. Social, economic and cultural aspects of motherhood in South Asia. ch. 3. Social and developmental issues affecting the perinatal health of mothers and their infants / Hilary Standing and Anthony Costello
- ch. 4. Epidemiological trends in nutritional status of children and women in India / Harshpal Sachdev
- ch. 5. Women's work and maternal-child health: anthropological views on intervention / Catherine Panter-Brick
- ch. 6. Perinatal mortality in Nepal: implications for behaviour modification / Shyam Thapa
- ch. 7. Traditional and cultural aspects of neonatal care in developing countries / Shashi N. Vani
- Section 3. Cost-effective essential newborn care in poor communities: the evidence-base. ch. 8. Effective interventions in pregnancy to improve foetal growth / Amali Lokugamage and Charles H. Rodeck
- ch. 9. Hypothermia: epidemiology and prevention / Ragnar Tunell
- ch. 10. New methods for monitoring neonatal hypothermia and cold stress / Anthony Costello
- ch. 11. Birth asphyxia in developing countries: epidemiology, sequelae and prevention / Matthew Ellis
- ch. 12. Effective resuscitation / Siddarth Ramji
- ch. 13. Effective interventions to reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity from perinatal infection / Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
- ch. 14. The importance of breastfeeding and strategies to sustain high breastfeeding rates / M. Q-K. Talukder
- ch. 15. Neonatal hypoglycaemia / Anthony Costello and Deb Pal
- ch. 16. Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in developing countries / Therese Hesketh
- ch. 17. Low birth weight newborns
- the risks in infancy and beyond / Dipak K. Guha
- ch. 18. Does health education improve newborn care? / Alison Bolam, Dominique Tillen and Anthony Costello
- ch. 19. Community based strategies to improve newborn and infant care practices / Fehmida Jalil
- Section 4. Improving health service delivery. ch. 20. Special care of newborn at the district hospital / Dharma Manandhar
- ch. 21. Current controversies and recommendations for the care of high risk newborn infants / Meharban Singh
- ch. 22. Audit
- a tool to improve the quality of perinatal care / Sophie Mancey-Jones
- ch. 23. Trained traditional birth attendants and essential newborn care in South Asia / Marta J. Levitt-Dayal
- ch. 24. TBA training: cost-effective? / Carole Presern
- ch. 25. What to do about referral and transfers of high risk mothers and newborns? / Daljit Singh
- ch. 26. Making perinatal services more user-friendly / Susan F. Murray
- ch. 27. How to improve information, education and communication for better newborn care
- Section 5. Challenges for future policy implementation and research. ch. 28. Challenges for future policy implementation and research / Anthony Costello and Sophie Mancey-Jones.