Training health workers to assess anaemia with the WHO haemoglobin colour scale

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 214-221

  Gosling, Roly ^a   Walraven, Gijs ^b   Manneh, Fandinding ^c   Bailey, Robin ^a   Lewis, S Mitchell ^d  

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

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c North Bank District East   (Gambia)

^d HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Anaemia; Antenatal; Community health nurses; Diagnosis; Field evaluation; Haemoglobin; Screening; Training

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANAEMIA; HEALTH WORKER; TRAINING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COLOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE; SCREENING TEST; TRAINING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANEMIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034117051     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2000.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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