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Lower mortality is observed among low birth weight young infants who have received home-based care by female community health volunteers in rural Nepal

BACKGROUND: There has been little success in attempts to reduce the proportion of births with low birth weight (LBW). However, deaths associated with LBW may be prevented with extra attention to warmth, feeding, and prevention or early treatment of infections. There are few studies on this in Nepal...

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Autores principales: Neupane, Dinesh, Dawson, Penny, Houston, Robin, Dhakal, Liladhar, Sharma, Jaganath, Gargi, KC, Lagos, Christina, Khanal, Vishnu, Mishra, Shiva Raj, Kallestrup, Per
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5504681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28697728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1355-z