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● projectScaled · systemic · 1993
Home-Based Newborn Care (SEARCH Gadchiroli)
Home-based newborn care model created by SEARCH in the tribal district of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. Trained community health workers (arogyadoots) make home visits to care for the newborn, manage neonatal sepsis and educate mothers.
illustrative atlas image · Roger Brown / PexelsS(SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health)ABAbhay BangRBRani Bang
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01 The context
The field trial published in The Lancet (Bang et al. 1999) covered 1993-1998 and showed a ~62% reduction in neonatal mortality; the ten-year follow-up (1993-2003) confirmed the effect. The Government of India adopted it as the basis of the national HBNC program (2011) and WHO/UNICEF took it to other low- and middle-income countries.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 3 ›
EvidenceHome-Based Neonatal Care: Summary and Applications of the Field Trial in Rural Gadchiroli, India (1993 to 2003)Journal of Perinatology (Nature) · 2005
ContextPeople's Health in People's Hands: Dr. Abhay Bang and Dr. Rani Bang's Pioneering Approach to Rural Healthcare in IndiaPMC (open access) · 2024
EvidenceEffect of home-based neonatal care and management of sepsis on neonatal mortality: field trial in rural IndiaThe Lancet (vol 354, pp 1955-1961) · 1999