Improving newborn infant health in developing countries
Section 1. Current status of newborn infants and perinatal health in South Asia. ch. 1. Current state of the health of newborn infants in developing countries / Anthony Costello and Dharma Manandhar -- ch. 2. Recent trends in perinatal health in South Asia -- Section 2. Social, economic and cultural aspects of motherhood in South Asia. ch. 3. Social and developmental issues affecting the perinatal health of mothers and their infants / Hilary Standing and Anthony Costello -- ch. 4. Epidemiological trends in nutritional status of children and women in India / Harshpal Sachdev -- ch. 5. Women's work and maternal-child health: anthropological views on intervention / Catherine Panter-Brick -- ch. 6. Perinatal mortality in Nepal: implications for behaviour modification / Shyam Thapa -- ch. 7. Traditional and cultural aspects of neonatal care in developing countries / Shashi N.Vani -- Section 3. Cost-effective essential newborn care in poor communities: the evidence-base. ch. 8. Effective interventions in pregnancy to improve foetal growth / Amali Lokugamage and Charles H. Rodeck -- ch. 9. Hypothermia: epidemiology and prevention / Ragnar Tunell -- ch. 10. New methods for monitoring neonatal hypothermia and cold stress / Anthony Costello -- ch. 11. Birth asphyxia in developing countries: epidemiology, sequelae and prevention / Matthew Ellis -- ch. 12. Effective resuscitation / Siddarth Ramji -- ch. 13. Effective interventions to reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity from perinatal infection / Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta -- ch. 14. The importance of breastfeeding and strategies to sustain high breastfeeding rates / M. Q-K. Talukder -- ch. 15. Neonatal hypoglycaemia / Anthony Costello and Deb Pal -- ch. 16. Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in developing countries / Therese Hesketh -- ch. 17. Low birth weight newborns - the risks in infancy and beyond / Dipak K. Guha -- ch. 18. Does health education improve newborn care? / Alison Bolam, Dominique Tillen and Anthony Costello -- ch. 19. Community based strategies to improve newborn and infant care practices / Fehmida Jalil -- Section 4. Improving health service delivery. ch. 20. Special care of newborn at the district hospital / Dharma Manandhar -- ch. 21. Current controversies and recommendations for the care of high risk newborn infants / Meharban Singh -- ch. 22. Audit - a tool to improve the quality of perinatal care / Sophie Mancey-Jones -- ch. 23. Trained traditional birth attendants and essential newborn care in South Asia / Marta J. Levitt-Dayal -- ch. 24. TBA training: cost-effective? / Carole Presern -- ch. 25. What to do about referral and transfers of high risk mothers and newborns? / Daljit Singh -- ch. 26. Making perinatal services more user-friendly / Susan F. Murray -- ch. 27. How to improve information, education and communication for better newborn care -- Section 5. Challenges for future policy implementation and research. ch. 28. Challenges for future policy implementation and research / Anthony Costello and Sophie Mancey-Jones.