Research showing that for women with limited access to healthcare clean birth kits improve neonatal outcomes. Nadine Seward and Audrey Prost from the University College London analyzed data from three pre-exisiting studies to:
investigate the links between neonatal mortality, the use of clean delivery kits, and individual clean delivery practices in almost 20 000 home births in rural areas of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. The researchers found that use of the birth kits was linked to a dramatic drop (48%) in neonatal mortality with a further drop (16%) in neonatal mortality with each additional clean delivery practice used.
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According to http://www.medpagetoday.com/OBGYN/Pregnancy/31457 reporting on the analysis:
Further research should explore the context of kit use in order to develop and test locally appropriate promotion strategies, as well as examine the potential of kits to improve neonatal survival in the context of increasing institutional delivery rates,” they wrote.
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But, the authors noted, “while the kit can be considered a low-cost intervention, there have been no studies on willingness to pay for kits, and these costs may still be prohibitive for the poorest women.
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