Who Delivers without Water? A Multi Country Analysis of Water and Sanitation in the Childbirth Environment.

Hygiene during childbirth is essential to the health of mothers and newborns, irrespective of where birth takes place. This paper investigates the status of water and sanitation in both the home and facility childbirth environments, and for whom and where this is a more significant problem.We used t...

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Main Authors: Giorgia Gon, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Oona M R Campbell, Aluísio J D Barros, Susannah Woodd, Lenka Benova, Wendy J Graham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4988668?pdf=render