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These facts are so hard that the nation's grubmongers are being advised to give up on pleasing a broad swath of society and instead concentrate on small, specific segments of the market. It's narrowcasting for the stomach and makes perfect cultural sense, but it's still a great...
Several years ago, Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku ward began a lonely-death awareness campaign. It hosts social events to draw people from their apartments, distributes a newsletter to the elderly and monitors their well-being by, for example, checking to make sure they're taking out their trash. Other wards...
UNICEF India's Chief of Health, Henri van den Hombergh, points out that local women's groups should not be taken as a substitute for institutions where professional care is available to sick newborns. But, he says, "peer influencing" of the type that goes on at these meetings - relating to...
With the help of village headmen, Ekjut handpicked women who were paid and trained to facilitate the discussions or gather data on community births and neonatal deaths. Facilitators were required to be mobile and speak two or more local languages - prepared, in other words, to bicycle from village to village...
In Nepal, where neonatal mortality in participating groups dropped by 30%, the benefits of the trial have endured. Recent estimates indicate that the neonatal mortality rate has now dipped under 30 per 1,000 live births, thanks also to the work of other NGOs and governmental organizations in the region...