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    • A Community Health Worker Home Visitation Project to Prevent Neonatal Deaths in Kenya 

      Mwanthi, Mutuku A.; Tomedi, Angelo; Livingston, Allison; Campbell, Alison; Morules, Carol (Oxford University PressUniversity of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2400 Tucker NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico'Department of Family, and Connnunity Medicine, School or Medicine, Albuquerque, NAi, USASchool of Public Health, University of Nairobi,Health Sciences Centre'. Universitv of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. USA, 2013)
      Neonatal deaths account for 43% of under-S childhood deaths in Kenya. Most infants are born at home, and many of them die at home unaccounted for, often during the first week of life. Previous studies in which community ...