“The cord is the child”: meanings and practices related to umbilical cord care in Central Uganda

BACKGROUND: Infections account for a quarter of all newborn deaths and the umbilical cord has been identified as a major route of newborn infections. OBJECTIVE: To explore the meanings and practices related to the umbilical cord among caretakers of newborns in central Uganda. METHODS: This was a qua...

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Autores principales: Mukunya, David, Haaland, Marte E. S., Tumwine, James K., Tylleskar, Thorkild, Nankabirwa, Victoria, Moland, Karen Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7057479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32131781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-2002-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7057479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32131781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-2002-9

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