Impact of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness on inequalities in child health in rural Tanzania

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Masanja, Honorati ^a,b,f   Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong ^a,c   De Savigny, Don ^b,d,f,g   Mshinda, Hassan ^a   Victora, Cesar G ^c,e  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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

^d Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project   (Tanzania)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child health; Child survival; Equity; IMCI; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BED NET; CAREGIVER; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFANT; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA;

EID: 28644451292     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czi054     Document Type: Article

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