Care seeking behaviour for childhood illness- A questionnaire survey in western Nepal

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T ^a   Shankar, Ravi P ^a   Sreekumaran, Binu V ^a   Subba, Sonu H ^a   Joshi, Hari S ^a   Ramachandran, Uma ^a  

^a MANIPAL COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Nepal)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOME CARE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNIZATION; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEPAL; PHARMACY; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33747368690     PISSN: 1472698X     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-6-7     Document Type: Article

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