Feasibility and pilot study of the effects of microfinance on mortality and nutrition in children under five amongst the very poor in India: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

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Feasibility and pilot study of the effects of microfinance on mortality and nutrition in children under five amongst the very poor in India: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Background: The United Nations Millennium Development Goals include targets for the health of children under five years old. Poor health is linked to poverty and microfinance initiatives are economic interventions that may improve health by breaking the cycle of poverty. However, there is a lack of...

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Main Authors:	Ojha, Shalini, Szatkowski, Lisa, Sinha, Ranjeet, Yaron, Gil, Fogarty, Andrew W., Allen, Stephen, Choudhary, Sunil, Smyth, Alan R.
Format:	Article
Published:	BioMed Central 2014
Subjects:	Malnutrition Under five mortality rate Microfinance Cluster randomized control trials
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31355/

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