Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nsibande, Duduzile ^a   Doherty, Tanya ^a,b   Ijumba, Petrida ^a   Tomlinson, Mark ^c   Jackson, Debra ^b   Sanders, David ^b   Lawn, Joy ^d,e  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child health; Community health workers; Health seeking behaviour; HIV; Neonate; Newborn; Primary health care; Referral completion; Urban health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT TRANSFER; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873267544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-47     Document Type: Article

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