Universal infant hearing screening programme in a community with predominant non-hospital births: A three-year experience

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 481-487

  Olusanya, B O ^a   Ebuehi, O M ^a   Somefun, A O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^b LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; HEARING; INCOME; MATERNAL CARE;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; DELIVERY; EVALUATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPARA; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; NEWBORN SCREENING; NIGERIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING TESTS; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL AGE; NIGERIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

AFRICA; LAGOS [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 67049155540     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.082784     Document Type: Article

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