Bmc Pregnancy Childb
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Bmc Pregnancy Childb · Apr 2016
Factors associated with adoption of beneficial newborn care practices in rural Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study.
Beneficial newborn care practices can improve newborn survival. However, little is known about the factors that affect adoption of these practices. ⋯ Adoption of all beneficial newborn care practices was low, although associated with higher ANC visits; middle-level socio-economic status and skilled delivery attendance. These findings suggest a need for interventions to improve quality ANC and skilled delivery attendance as well as targeting of women with low and high socio-economic status with newborn care health educational messages, improved work conditions for breastfeeding, and supportive policies at national level for uptake of newborn care practices.