Role of village level education and utilization of existing facilities in reducing neonatal mortality in rural India and evaluation of post-study sustainability and impact of new parallel programs

Pinaki Panigrahi, MD, PhD1, Ashish Joshi, MD, MPH1, Hegang Chen, PhD2, Dinesh Chandel, PhD1, Radhanath Satpathy, MD3, Nimai Nanda, MD3, Lingaraj Pradhan, MD4, Shubhranshu Mohapatra, MD5, Sailajanandan Parida, MD6, Ira Gewolb, MD7 and J. Glenn Morris Jr., MD, MPH, TM8
(1)University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, (2)University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, (3)Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, India, (4)Capital Hospital Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India, (5)Asian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, India, (6)SCB Medical College, Cuttack, India, (7)Michigan State University College of Medicine, Lansing, MI, (8)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL