Community-based behaviour change management cuts neonatal mortality in half

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 10:14 in Health & Medicine

A community-based program that reinforces basic childbirth and newborn care practices can reduce a baby's risk of death within the first month of life by as much as 54 percent, according to a study in rural India led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in collaboration with CSM Medical University in Lucknow, India...

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