The City Initiative for Newborn Health.

Abstract

This article describes the critical first steps taken to revitalize the vast public health system of Mumbai City through the active participation of personnel from within the system. It focuses on one of two components of an ambitious action-research project aimed at improving the survival and health of newborn infants and mothers living in slum communities in Mumbai.

Citation

PLoS Med (2006) 3 (9) e339 [doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030339]

The City Initiative for Newborn Health.

Published 1 January 2006