Community resource centres to improve the health of women and children in informal settlements in Mumbai: a cluster-randomised, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Around 105 million people in India will be living in informal settlements by 2017. We investigated the effects of local resource centres delivering integrated activities to improve women's and children's health in urban informal settlements.

Methods

In a cluster-randomised controlled trial in 40 clusters, each containing around 600 households, 20 were randomly allocated to have a resource centre (intervention group) and 20 no centre (control group). Community organisers in the intervention centres addressed maternal and neonatal health, child health and nutrition, reproductive health, and prevention of violence against women and children through home visits, group meetings, day care, community events, service provision, and liaison. The primary endpoints were met

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC5316560 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature