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Section 1. Current status of newborn infants and perinatal health in South Asia. ch. 1. Current state of the health of newborn infants in developing countries / Anthony Costello and Dharma Manandhar -- ch. 2. Recent trends in perinatal health in South Asia -- Section 2. Social, economic and cultural aspects of motherhood in South Asia. ch. 3. Social and developmental issues affecting the perinatal health of mothers and their infants / Hilary Standing and Anthony Costello -- ch. 4. Epidemiological trends in nutritional status of children and women in India / Harshpal Sachdev -- ch. 5. Women's work and maternal-child health: anthropological views on intervention / Catherine Panter-Brick -- ch. 6. Perinatal mortality in Nepal: implications for behaviour modification / Shyam Thapa -- ch. 7. Traditional and cultural aspects of neonatal care in developing countries / Shashi N.Vani -- Section 3. Cost-effective essential newborn care in poor communities: the evidence-base. ch. 8. Effective interventions in pregnancy to improve foetal growth / Amali Lokugamage and Charles H. Rodeck -- ch. 9. Hypothermia: epidemiology and prevention / Ragnar Tunell -- ch. 10. New methods for monitoring neonatal hypothermia and cold stress / Anthony Costello -- ch. 11. Birth asphyxia in developing countries: epidemiology, sequelae and prevention / Matthew Ellis -- ch. 12. Effective resuscitation / Siddarth Ramji -- ch. 13. Effective interventions to reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity from perinatal infection / Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta -- ch. 14. The importance of breastfeeding and strategies to sustain high breastfeeding rates / M. Q-K. Talukder -- ch. 15. Neonatal hypoglycaemia / Anthony Costello and Deb Pal -- ch. 16. Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in developing countries / Therese Hesketh -- ch. 17. Low birth weight newborns - the risks in infancy and beyond / Dipak K. Guha -- ch. 18. Does health education improve newborn care? / Alison Bolam, Dominique Tillen and Anthony Costello -- ch. 19. Community based strategies to improve newborn and infant care practices / Fehmida Jalil -- Section 4. Improving health service delivery. ch. 20. Special care of newborn at the district hospital / Dharma Manandhar -- ch. 21. Current controversies and recommendations for the care of high risk newborn infants / Meharban Singh -- ch. 22. Audit - a tool to improve the quality of perinatal care / Sophie Mancey-Jones -- ch. 23. Trained traditional birth attendants and essential newborn care in South Asia / Marta J. Levitt-Dayal -- ch. 24. TBA training: cost-effective? / Carole Presern -- ch. 25. What to do about referral and transfers of high risk mothers and newborns? / Daljit Singh -- ch. 26. Making perinatal services more user-friendly / Susan F. Murray -- ch. 27. How to improve information, education and communication for better newborn care -- Section 5. Challenges for future policy implementation and research. ch. 28. Challenges for future policy implementation and research / Anthony Costello and Sophie Mancey-Jones.