Improving Newborn Infant Health In Developing Countries

Until recently policy makers and health professionals in developing countries have neglected newborn care, even though 70% of infant deaths occur during the first month of life. The principles of essential newborn care are simple: resuscitation, warmth to avoid hypothermia, early breast-feeding, hygiene, support for the mother-infant relationship, and early treatment for low birth weight or sick infants. Putting these principles into practice does not require expensive high technology equipment.This important book has been written by experts in newborn care, mostly from developing countries in south Asia. It contains a review of the current health status of mothers and newborn infants in the developing world, the evidence base for cost-effective essential and preventive neonatal interventions in poor communities, ideas for improving service delivery, and the priorities for future action and research.

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• Assisted by: Ramesh Adhikari (Editor), Shameem Ahmed (Editor), O. Bhakoo (Editor), Santosh Bhargava (Editor), Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta (Editor), Alison Bolam (Editor), Anthony Costello (Editor), Anthony (Univ College London Costello (Editor), Hemang Dixit (Editor), Hemang (Kathmandu Medical College Dixit (Editor), Matthew Ellis (Editor), Matthew (.) Ellis (Editor), Dipak Guha (Editor), Therese Hesketh (Editor), Simin Irani (Editor), Fehmida Jalil (Editor), Marta J Levitt-Dayal (Editor), Amali Lokugamage (Editor), Dharma Manandhar (Editor), Sophie Mancey-Jones (Editor), Sajid Maqbool (Editor), Susan Murray (Editor), Nazmun Nahar (Editor), Deb Pal (Editor), Catherine Panter-Brick (Editor), Carole Presern (Editor), Siddhartha Ramji (Editor), Charles Rodeck (Editor), Harshpal Sachdev (Editor), Daljit Singh (Editor), Meharban Singh (Editor), Hilary Standing (Editor), Mq Talukder (Editor), Munu Thapa (Editor), Shyam Thapa (Editor), Dominique Tillen (Editor), Ragnar Tunell (Editor), Shashi Vani (Editor), Ananda Wijekoon (Editor), Shakila Zaman (Editor)
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2000
• EAN: 9781860940972
• ISBN: 978-1-86094-097-2
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 220 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 934 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine