Nurse-based antenatal and child health care in rural India, implementation and effects - an Indian-Swedish collaboration

Siw Alehagen

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, literature review, supervised data collection, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Associate professor

My name is Siw Alehagen and I am Assoc. Professor at Linköping University, Linköping Swede. IŽm am Reg. Nurse and Reg. Midwife. My research area is psychological health/unhealth during childbirth, antenatal parenthood education and family planning. I have been engaged in project in developing countries like India and Kenya with focus on antenatal care and family planning.

Orvar Finnstrom

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, literature review, supervised data collection, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Professor

Research interest: neonatology, child health, follow up. Professor emeritus of paediatrcs

Göran Hermansson

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, statistical analysis

position: Consultant

Sweden

Consultant. MD Phd. Child Health. Vaccinations. Passive smoking.

Somasundaram Konduri

qualifications: MSc

contribution: designed the project, devised survey tool, collected data, supervised data collection, input data

position: Director

India

Rural & Remote Health Delivery Systems, Sexual and Reproductive and Child Health Rights, Health Care Expenditure & Financing, Health Information Systems, Capacity building of NGOs & CBOs.

Vidyadhar Bangal

qualifications: MD

contribution: designed the project, devised survey tool, supervised data collection

position: Professor

India

I am working as professor in obstetrics and gynaecology in India.Working in rural health since 20 years. My areas of interest are Maternal and perinatal health,maternal mortality in rural and tribal area.

Ashok Patil

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, devised survey tool

position: Chief executive officer

India

www.pravara.com and www.iaamrh.org are my web sites which can explain my work.My area of interest is Rural Health and allied medical sciences and research.

Pratibha Chandekar

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, collected data, supervised data collection

position: Principal

India

My research interest is in the area of Mother and child health, nursing education.

AnnaKarin Johansson

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, literature review, supervised data collection, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Senior lecturer

Sweden

District nurse, master of public health, PhD in pediatrics (passive smoking), senior lecturer, working in SIDA project with child health care in India