Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial

What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

“…Chaudhury and Hammer (2006) are currently evaluating the Total Sanitation Campaign in India, and an evaluation of the program in Bangladesh is also under way. Manandhar and others (2004) demonstrate that community-level education of women's groups can improve birth outcomes. Further work might assess whether such education efforts can influence other hygiene behaviors, and the scalability of this approach.…”

Developmental biology: Support mothers to secure future public health

“…Ten years ago, a team of local and international health-care researchers worked with women from villages in Nepal, aiming to reduce the high levels of mortality among them and their newborn babies 8 . Women were encouraged to join discussion groups run by a facilitator who helped them to formulate simple strategies to improve perinatal care that would work in their communities -such as the production and distribution of basic, home-birth delivery kits.…”

Hypothermia and Related Factors in High-Risk Infants

“…It is, however, a widespread practice even in high-risk environments [48][49][50][51]. Massage and oil applications to clean the child early after birth continue to be a widespread tradition [40].…”