Accelerating Reproductive and Child Health Program Impact with Community-Based Services: the Navrongo Experiment in Ghana
Language:
English
Series/Journal Title:
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Volume:
84
Issue:
12
Copyright:
2006
Pages:
7
Description:
This report concludes that assigning nurses to community locations where they provide basic curative and preventive care substantially reduces childhood mortality and accelerates progress towards attainment of the child survival MDG. The research in Navrongo demonstrates that affordable and sustainable means of combining nurse services with volunteer action can accelerate attainment of both the International Conference on Population and Development agenda and the MDGs. [from summary]
Subject
Geographic Focus
Resource Type
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