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Improving Maternal and Newborn Health: Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Program in Rural Kenya

BACKGROUND: Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) form an important element of many health systems, and in Kenya these volunteers are the foundation for promoting behavior change through health education, earlier case identification, and timely referral to trained health care providers. This stu...

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Autores principales:	Adam, Mary B., Dillmann, Maria, Chen, Mei-kuang, Mbugua, Simon, Ndung’u, Joram, Mumbi, Priscilla, Waweru, Eunice, Meissner, Peter
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121293/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25090111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104027

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