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Improving child health care in Botswana: what can be done?

Access to appropriate healthcare for children remains a challenge in Botswana, as evidenced by the under five mortality rate and integrated management of childhood illness indicators. Successful implementation of the integrated management of childhood illnesses strategy can drastically reduce child...

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Autores principales: Tjirare, Lynn Tuisiree, Tlale, Lebapotswe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8498658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659615
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.39.242.29139
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Sumario:Access to appropriate healthcare for children remains a challenge in Botswana, as evidenced by the under five mortality rate and integrated management of childhood illness indicators. Successful implementation of the integrated management of childhood illnesses strategy can drastically reduce child mortality through innovation, national health care worker training coverage, enhanced supervision and use of guidelines.