Can mothers recognize neonatal illness correctly? Comparison of maternal report and assessment by community health workers in rural Bangladesh

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 743-753

  Choi, Y ^a   El Arifeen, S ^b   Mannan, I ^a,b   Rahman, S M ^b   Bari, S ^b   Darmstadt, G L ^a   Black, R E ^a   Baqui, A H ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ICDDRB Public Health Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Care seeking; Community health workers; Maternal recognition; Neonatal illness

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH WORKER; MATERNAL HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; MOTHERS; NEONATAL NURSING; NEONATAL SCREENING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL HEALTH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

BANGLADESH; INDIA; MIRZAPUR; SYLHET; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 77952268463     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02532.x     Document Type: Article

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