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Engaging community health workers in maternal and newborn care in eastern Uganda

BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) have been employed in a number of low- and middle-income countries as part of primary health care strategies, but the packages vary across and even within countries. The experiences and motivations of a multipurpose CHW in providing maternal and newborn he...

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Autores principales:	Okuga, Monica, Kemigisa, Margaret, Namutamba, Sarah, Namazzi, Gertrude, Waiswa, Peter
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Co-Action Publishing 2015
Materias:	Newborn Health in Uganda
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4385211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25843491 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.23968

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