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Evaluating active roles of community health workers in accelerating universal access to health services for malaria in Palawan, the Philippines

BACKGROUND: Palawan is the most malaria-endemic province in the Philippines. In an effort to confront malaria in areas with limited healthcare facilities, microscopists (community health workers) have been trained to diagnose malaria since 1999. METHODS: We reviewed the epidemiological data and rela...

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Autores principales: Matsumoto-Takahashi, Emilie Louise Akiko, Kano, Shigeyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27433129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-016-0008-7