title: Health information for primary neonatal care.
abstract: A baseline health survey was carried out in tribal area of Dahanu taluka in Maharashtra as a part of Rural Neonatal Care Project of the Government of Maharashtra. A population of 9684 was surveyed following the technique of cluster-sampling. High perinatal, neonatal, and maternal mortality rates were noted. Unfavourable maternal characteristics, obstetric factors, and infrastructural facilities contributed to high mortality rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Social Medicine, Grant Medical College, Bombay, India.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Daga
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Daga
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D011247:Pregnancy; D012423:Rural Health