Implementing facility-based kangaroo mother care services: lessons from a multi-country study in Africa
Open Access
- 8 July 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 14 (1), 293
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-293
Abstract
Some countries have undertaken programs that included scaling up kangaroo mother care. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate the implementation status of facility-based kangaroo mother care services in four African countries: Malawi, Mali, Rwanda and Uganda.Keywords
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