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Can Volunteer Community Health Workers Decrease Child Morbidity and Mortality in Southwestern Uganda? An Impact Evaluation

BACKGROUND: The potential for community health workers to improve child health in sub-Saharan Africa is not well understood. Healthy Child Uganda implemented a volunteer community health worker child health promotion model in rural Uganda. An impact evaluation was conducted to assess volunteer commu...

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Autores principales:	Brenner, Jennifer L., Kabakyenga, Jerome, Kyomuhangi, Teddy, Wotton, Kathryn A., Pim, Carolyn, Ntaro, Moses, Bagenda, Fred Norman, Gad, Ndaruhutse Ruzazaaza, Godel, John, Kayizzi, James, McMillan, Douglas, Mulogo, Edgar, Nettel-Aguirre, Alberto, Singhal, Nalini
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2011
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237430/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194801 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027997

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