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Care Groups I: An Innovative Community-Based Strategy for Improving Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Resource-Constrained Settings

Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Thomas Davis and Pieter Ernst
Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):358-369; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00051
Henry Perry
aJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Melanie Morrow
bICF International (Maternal and Child Survival Program), Washington, DC, USA
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Sarah Borger
cFood for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
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Jennifer Weiss
dConcern Worldwide/US, New York, NY, USA
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Mary DeCoster
cFood for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
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Thomas Davis
eFeed the Children, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Pieter Ernst
fWorld Relief/Mozambique, Chokwe, Mozambique
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vol. 3 no. 3 358-369
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00051
PubMed 
26374798

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: February 16, 2015
  • Accepted: July 27, 2015
  • Published online September 15, 2015.

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© Perry et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00051.

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  1. Henry Perrya⇑,
  2. Melanie Morrowb,
  3. Sarah Borgerc,
  4. Jennifer Weissd,
  5. Mary DeCosterc,
  6. Thomas Davise,
  7. Pieter Ernstf
  1. a​Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
  2. b​ICF International (Maternal and Child Survival Program), Washington, DC, USA
  3. c​Food for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
  4. d​Concern Worldwide/US, New York, NY, USA
  5. e​Feed the Children, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
  6. f​World Relief/Mozambique, Chokwe, Mozambique
  1. Correspondence to Henry Perry (hperry2{at}jhu.edu).
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    • INTRODUCTION
    • WHAT ARE CARE GROUPS?
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    • OTHER EMERGING MODIFICATIONS OF THE CARE GROUP APPROACH
    • INTEGRATION OF CARE GROUPS INTO MINISTRY OF HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEMS
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