How can we improve the care of severely malnourished children in Africa?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0222-0225

  Heikens, Geert Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILD CARE; DIARRHEA; FATALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KWASHIORKOR; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GOALS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK; TRIAGE; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33847657600     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040045.t001     Document Type: Review

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