Kangaroo Mother Care: A review of mothers' experiences at Bwaila hospital and Zomba Central hospital (Malawi)
Background: Kangaroo Mother Care is an intervention that can help reduce neonatal mortality rate in Malawi but it has not been rolled out to all health facilities. Understanding the mothers' experience would help strategise when scaling-up this intervention. Objective: to review experiences of mothe...
| Publicado en: | Midwifery Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 305 - 316 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Feb2015
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