The Lancet. Global health
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The Lancet. Global health · Mar 2014
Randomized Controlled TrialEffect of a behaviour-change intervention on handwashing with soap in India (SuperAmma): a cluster-randomised trial.
Diarrhoea and respiratory infections are the two biggest causes of child death globally. Handwashing with soap could substantially reduce diarrhoea and respiratory infections, but prevalence of adequate handwashing is low. We tested whether a scalable village-level intervention based on emotional drivers of behaviour, rather than knowledge, could improve handwashing behaviour in rural India. ⋯ Wellcome Trust, SHARE.
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The Lancet. Global health · Mar 2014
Socioeconomic inequality in neonatal mortality in countries of low and middle income: a multicountry analysis.
Neonatal mortality rates (NMRs) in countries of low and middle income have been only slowly decreasing; coverage of essential maternal and newborn health services needs to increase, particularly for disadvantaged populations. Our aim was to produce comparable estimates of changes in socioeconomic inequalities in NMR in the past two decades across these countries. ⋯ Canadian Institutes of Health Research.