Improvement in mothers' immediate care-seeking behaviors for children's danger signs through a community-based intervention in Lusaka, Zambia

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-85

  Fujino, Yasuyuki ^a   Sasaki, Satoshi ^a   Igarashi, Kumiko ^a   Tanabe, Naohito ^a   Muleya, Clara Mbwili ^b   Tambatamba, Bushimbwa ^b   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Care seeking; Child death; Danger sign; Integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI); Millennium development goal 4

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 63049114509     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.217.73     Document Type: Article

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