Eight key household practices of Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) amongst mothers of children aged 6 to 59 months in Gambat, Sindh, Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 288-293

  Agha, Ajmal ^a   White, Franklin ^a   Younus, Muhammad ^b   Kadir, Muhammed Masood ^a   Ali, Sajid ^a   Fatmi, Zafar ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD CARE; CHILD REARING; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIARRHEA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HAND WASHING; HOMEMAKING AND THE FAMILY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; VACCINATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; FAMILY SIZE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD CARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTHERS; PAKISTAN; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 38549126879     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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