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Health Seeking Behaviours among Caretakers of Children with Nodding Syndrome in Pader District - Northern Uganda: A Mixed Methods Study

BACKGROUND: Nodding syndrome is a neurological disorder which had affected about 3000 children with over 170 deaths in northern Uganda by 2012. With limited data on health seeking, the study aimed to assess the health seeking behavior and associated factors among caretakers of children with nodding...

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Autores principales:	Atim, Pamela, Ochola, Emmanuel, Ssendagire, Stephen, Rutebemberwa, Elizeus
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2016
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4966934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159549

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