Impact of community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care on survival of low birth weight infants: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

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Published in Trials on June 07, 2017

Authors

Sarmila Mazumder1, Sunita Taneja1, Suresh Kumar Dalpath2, Rakesh Gupta2, Brinda Dube1, Bireshwar Sinha1, Kiran Bhatia1, Sachiyo Yoshida3, Ole Frithjof Norheim4, Rajiv Bahl3, Halvor Sommerfelt5,6, Nita Bhandari1, Jose Martines4

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India.
2: Child Health Division, National Rural Health Mission, Panchkula, Haryana, India.
3: Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
4: Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, N-5020, Bergen, Norway.
5: Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, N-5020, Bergen, Norway. halvor.sommerfelt@cih.uib.no.
6: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. halvor.sommerfelt@cih.uib.no.

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