Improving Maternal and Newborn Health: Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Program in Rural Kenya

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Mary B. Adam · Kijabe Hospital

Maria Dillmann · Universität Ulm

Mei‐Kuang Chen · University of Arizona

Simon Mbugua · Kijabe Hospital

Jackson Ndungu · Kijabe Hospital

Priscilla Mumbi · Kijabe Hospital

Eunice Waweru · Kijabe Hospital

Abstract

The delivery of health messages by CHWs increased knowledge of maternal and newborn care among women in the local community and encouraged deliveries under skilled attendance.

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Global Maternal and Child Health Child Nutrition and Water Access Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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Published in: PLoS ONE

Volume 9, Issue 8, pp. e104027-e104027

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104027

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Improving Maternal and Newborn Health: Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Program in Rural Kenya

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