Using community health workers to refer pregnant women and young children to health care facilities in rural West Bengal, India: A prospective cohort study.
BACKGROUND:Community health workers (CHWs) have been placed in many rural areas in India to increase villagers' connections to basic preventive health care. In this study, we describe how pregnant women and mothers of young children react when CHWs inform them that they, or their child, are at...
Main Authors: | Abram L Wagner, Lu Xia, Aparna Ghosh, Sandip Datta, Priyamvada Pandey, Sujay Santra, Sharmila Chattopadhyay, Uddip Nandi, Tanusree Mazumder, Sucheta Joshi, Joyojeet Pal, Bhramar Mukherjee |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6013192?pdf=render |
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