Community health education improves child health care in Rural Western China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural infant growth failure has been highlighted as a priority for action in China's national nutrition and child development policies. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the effect of community-based intervention project on child feeding, child health care and child growth.

Methods

From 2001 to 2005, UNICEF and China's Ministry of Health worked together to develop holistic strategies for child health care. All the interventions were implemented through the three-tier (county-township-village) rural health care network.In this study, 34 counties were included in both surveys in 2001 and 2005. Among these 34 counties, nine were subjected to the intervention and 25 counties were used as controls. In nine intervention counties, leaflets containing information of s

SUBMITTER: Liang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5891978 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature