Health Project in India Saved Many Mothers and Children (IMAGE)

Linköping University

Health Project in India Saved Many Mothers and Children

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Mobile health care centers were one of the components of a four-year health care project in one of India's poorest districts. Infant mortality fell by half, and the number of women who died from complications during pregnancy and childbirth decreased by three-quarters.

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Siw Alehagen/AnnaKarin Johansson/Linkoping University.

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