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Maternal health service overturns local culture defining babycare as women’s business – starting in the car park (Papua New Guinea)

In Attending facilitiesTags informing families, birth partners, attending facilities, gender, immunization, Papua New Guinea28th September 2017

Since 2013 the Burnet Institute has implemented the Healthy Mothers, Health Babies project that seeks to improve maternal and child health in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. As well …

Fathers influence immunization decisions (New Zealand)

In ImmunizationTags immunization9th February 2016

A New Zealand study has found that fathers/partners influence family decisions about child health. They looked at the decision to immunize a child among 6000 mothers and 4000 fathers. During …