Care Groups I: An Innovative Community-Based Strategy for Improving Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Resource-Constrained Settings.

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Published in Glob Health Sci Pract on September 15, 2015

Authors

Henry Perry1, Melanie Morrow2, Sarah Borger3, Jennifer Weiss4, Mary DeCoster3, Thomas Davis5, Pieter Ernst6

Author Affiliations

1: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA hperry2@jhu.edu.
2: ICF International (Maternal and Child Survival Program), Washington, DC, USA.
3: Food for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA.
4: Concern Worldwide/US, New York, NY, USA.
5: Feed the Children, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
6: World Relief/Mozambique, Chokwe, Mozambique.

Associated clinical trials:

Decreasing Stunting by Reducing Maternal Depression in Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (CRCT) for Improved Nutrition Outcomes | NCT03573713

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