“…In approximately 13 studies, from Australia (Downie 2004), Canada (Heaman 2006;, UK (Murphy 2008;Perkins 2001;Smith 2007), USA (Sheppard 2004;Warrick 1992), Brazil (Wayland 2002), Mexico (Ramirez-Valles 2003), India (Alcock 2009), Papua New Guinea (Ashwell 2009) and Viet Nam (Hendrickson 2002), LHWs carried out a package of tasks that were primarily promotional, and mainly involved information and advice about topics such as family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, breastfeeding, vaccinations and other aspects of newborn and child health care.…”