Determinants of monthly reporting by village health volunteers in a poor rural district of Lao PDR

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1269-1281

  Pongvongsa, Tiengkham ^a   Nonaka, Daisuke ^b,c   Kobayashi, Jun ^b,d   Mizoue, Tetsuya ^b   Phongmany, Panom ^a   Moji, Kazuhiko ^e  

^a Savannakhet Provincial Health Office   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community health aides; Data collection; Disease notification; Lao PDR; Voluntary workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053079501     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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