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

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 to be h...

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Autores principales: Patel, Archana, Kuhite, Priyanka, Puranik, Amrita, Khan, Samreen Sadaf, Borkar, Jitesh, Dhande, Leena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30376823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1308-3