Reduction in total under-five mortality in western Nepal through community-based antimicrobial treatment of pneumonia

The Lancet

Volumn 338, Issue 8773, 1991, Pages 993-997

  Pandey, M R ^a   Daulaire, N M P ^b,c   Starbuck, E S ^b,c   Houston, R M ^c   McPherson, K ^d  

^a Mrigendra Samjhana Medical Trust   (Nepal)

^b International Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Major Childhood Diseases ^*  (United States)

^c JOHN SNOW INC   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ASIA; BIOLOGY; CAUSES OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY--CHANGES; COMMUNITY WORKERS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DISEASES; HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL; MORTALITY; NEPAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PULMONARY EFFECTS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTHERN ASIA; TREATMENT; YOUTH;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEPAL; PNEUMONIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0026043725     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)91847-N     Document Type: Article

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