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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Opinion
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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spelling pubmed-84986582021-10-15 Improving child health care in Botswana: what can be done? Tjirare, Lynn Tuisiree Tlale, Lebapotswe Pan Afr Med J Opinion 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. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8498658/ /pubmed/34659615 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.39.242.29139 Text en Copyright: Lynn Tuisiree Tjirare et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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