Assessing prescribing and patient care indicators for children under five years old with malaria and other disease conditions in public primary health care facilities

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 206-214

  Nsimba, Stephen Elias Damson ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

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EID: 33744491784     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
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