Integrated management of childhood illness by outpatient health workers: Technical basis and overview

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 75, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 7-24

  Gove, S ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH WORKER; INTEGRATED APPROACH;

BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ETHIOPIA; GAMBIA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; TANZANIA; TRAINING; UGANDA;

AMBULATORY CARE; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANEMIA; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFANT; MEASLES; MEBENDAZOLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERAPEUTICS;

EID: 0031857215     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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