FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Asia and the Near East
on Safe Motherhood/Postpartum Care

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2004
"India: Men’s involvement in partner’s pregnancy yields health benefits," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 45. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Varkey, Leila Caleb, Anurag Mishra, Anjana Das, Emma Ottolenghi, Dale Huntington, Susan Adamchak, M.E. Khan, and Frederick Homan.  "Involving men in maternity care in India," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.7 MB)

2003
Center for Development in Primary Health Care." Improving postpartum care among low-parity mothers in Palestine," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 830 KB)

Nawar, Laila, Dale Huntington, Ibrahim Kharboush, Nancy Ali, and Mahmoud Shaheen. "Assessment of pilot health project outcome indicators: West Bank/Gaza," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.9 MB)

Palabrica-Costello, Marilou, Nimfa Ogena, and Alejandro N. Herrin. "Policy and program implications of the Matching Grants Program in the Philippines," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 656 KB)

2002
Ali, Nancy, Laila Nawar, Dale Huntington, and Tawhida Khalil.  “Upgrading the capacity and skills of service providers of the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 893 KB)

Das, Anjana, Leila Caleb Varkey, Anurag Mishra, Emma Ottolenghi, and Dale Huntington. "Men in maternity study," FRONTIERS Research Update no. 2. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 1 MB)  

Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP). “Institutional support for a program of activities within the Pilot Health Project in the West Bank and Gaza,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 3.1MB)

Mishra, Anurag, Leila Caleb Varkey, Emma Ottolenghi, Anjana Das, Dale Huntington, and Susan Adamchak. "Men in maternity study: Results from the pre-intervention survey of pregnant women and their husbands at the three intervention, and of only women at three control Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Dispensaries in Delhi, India—Baseline report," FRONTIERS Research Update. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 986 KB)

Mishra, Anurag, Leila Caleb Varkey, Emma Ottolenghi, Anjana Das, Dale Huntington, Susan Adamchak, and Shahina Begum. "Men in maternity study: A summary of the findings from pre-intervention interviews with women and their husbands attending ante-natal clinics at ESIC facilities in Delhi—Baseline summary results," FRONTIERS Research Update. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 689 KB)

2001
Shaheen, Mahmoud, Laila Nawar, Dale Huntington, and Sahar Hegazi. “Special studies program of the pilot health project West Bank and Gaza,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 671 KB)

"West Bank/Gaza: Stress the importance and cost-effectiveness of postpartum care," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 20. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 288 KB)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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