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Effect of community mobilization on appropriate care seeking for pneumonia in Haripur, Pakistan

BACKGROUND: Appropriate and timely care seeking reduces mortality for childhood illnesses including pneumonia. Despite over 90 000 Lady Health Workers (LHWs) deployed in Pakistan, whose tasks included management of pneumonia, only 16% of care takers sought care from them for respiratory infections....

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Autores principales: Sadruddin, Salim, Khan, Ibad ul Haque, Bari, Abdul, Khan, Attaullah, Ahmad, Ijaz, Qazi, Shamim A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Edinburgh University Global Health Society 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25798232
http://dx.doi.org/10.7189/jogh.05.010405