Integrated maternal and child health services in Mozambique: Structural health system limitations overshadow its effect on follow-up of HIV-exposed infants

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Geelhoed, Diederike ^a   Lafort, Yves ^c   Chissale, Élder ^b   Candrinho, Baltazar ^b   Degomme, Olivier ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MOZAMBIQUE   (Mozambique)

^b Tete Provincial Health Directorate   (Mozambique)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

HIV exposed infants; Integrated MCH care; Mozambique

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MOZAMBIQUE; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; MOZAMBIQUE; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84878632560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-207     Document Type: Article

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