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Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, 4(10), p. e0123817, 2015

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123817

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Building Social Networks for Maternal and Newborn Health in Poor Urban Settlements: A Cross-Sectional Study in Bangladesh

Journal article published in 2015 by Alayne M. Adams ORCID, Herfina Y. Nababan, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

The beneficial influence of social networks on health and wellbeing is well-established. In poor urban settlements in Bangladesh, BRAC’s Manoshi programme trains community health workers (CHWs) to support women through pregnancy, delivery and postpartum periods. This paper test the hypothesis that the introduction of CHWs as weak ties into the social networks of Manoshi members mediates improvements in maternal and neonatal health (MNH) best practices by providing support, facilitating ideational change, connecting mother to resources, and strengthening or countering the influence of strong ties.