Access to a health facility and care-seeking for danger signs in children: Before and after a community-based intervention in Lusaka, Zambia

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 312-320

  Sasaki, Satoshi ^a   Fujino, Yasuyuki ^b   Igarashi, Kumiko ^a   Tanabe, Naohito ^a   Muleya, Clara M ^c   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Health care seeking behaviour; Health service accessibility; Zambia

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PERIURBAN AREA; PUBLIC ACCESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; ZAMBIA;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

LUSAKA [ZAMBIA]; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77249153228     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02460.x     Document Type: Article

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