Early skin‐to‐skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants

ER Moore, N Bergman, GC Anderson… - … of systematic Reviews, 2016 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Mother‐infant separation post birth is common. In standard hospital care,
newborn infants are held wrapped or dressed in their mother's arms, placed in open cribs or …

Cochrane Review: Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants

A Conde‐Agudelo, JM Belizán… - Evidence‐Based Child …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Background Kangaroo mother care (KMC), originally defined as skin‐to‐skin contact
between a mother and her newborn, frequent and exclusive or nearly exclusive …

Community‐based intervention packages for reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality and improving neonatal outcomes

ZS Lassi, ZA Bhutta - Cochrane database of systematic …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background While maternal, infant and under‐five child mortality rates in developing
countries have declined significantly in the past two to three decades, newborn mortality …

Effectiveness of community health workers delivering preventive interventions for maternal and child health in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

B Gilmore, E McAuliffe - BMC public health, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background Community Health Workers are widely utilised in low-and middle-
income countries and may be an important tool in reducing maternal and child mortality; …

The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival

K Lunze, DE Bloom, DT Jamison, DH Hamer - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Background To provide evidence on the global epidemiological situation of neonatal
hypothermia and to provide recommendations for future policy and research directions …

3.6 million neonatal deaths—what is progressing and what is not?

JE Lawn, K Kerber, C Enweronu-Laryea… - Seminars in …, 2010 - Elsevier
Each year 3.6 million infants are estimated to die in the first 4 weeks of life (neonatal period)—
but the majority continue to die at home, uncounted. This article reviews progress for …

Interventions to prevent hypothermia at birth in preterm and/or low birth weight infants

EM McCall, F Alderdice, HL Halliday… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Newborn admission temperature is a strong predictor of outcomes across all
gestations. Hypothermia immediately after birth remains a worldwide issue and, if …

[HTML][HTML] Kangaroo mother care: a systematic review of barriers and enablers

GJ Chan, AS Labar, S Wall, R Atun - Bulletin of the World Health …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and the World Health
Organization's regional databases, for studies on “kangaroo mother care” or “kangaroo care” …

Effect of community-based behaviour change management on neonatal mortality in Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

V Kumar, S Mohanty, A Kumar, RP Misra… - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Summary Background In rural India, most births take place in the home, where high-risk care
practices are common. We developed an intervention of behaviour change management …

Using the three delays model to understand why newborn babies die in eastern Uganda

P Waiswa, K Kallander, S Peterson… - Tropical medicine & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To investigate causes of and contributors to newborn deaths in eastern Uganda
using a three delays audit approach. Methods Data collected on 64 neonatal deaths from a …