Newborn care: what we can learn from the kangaroo mother

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine , Kalamazoo, MI , USA.
² National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , Jerusalem , Israel ; Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services , Jerusalem , Israel ; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center , Jerusalem , Israel ; Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky College of Medicine , Lexington, KY , USA ; Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University , Atlanta, GA , USA.

Donald E Greydanus et al. Front Public Health. 2014.

. 2014 Jul 24:2:96.

doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00096. eCollection 2014.

¹ Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine , Kalamazoo, MI , USA.
² National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , Jerusalem , Israel ; Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services , Jerusalem , Israel ; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center , Jerusalem , Israel ; Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky College of Medicine , Lexington, KY , USA ; Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University , Atlanta, GA , USA.

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Keywords: human development; kangaroo method; kangaroo mother care; neonatology; newborn; pediatrics; skin-to-skin care.

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