Keeping children alive and healthy in South Africa - How do we reach this goal? Perspectives from a paediatrician in a District Clinical Specialist Team

SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 124-126

  Feucht, Ute Dagmar ^a,b  

^a Gauteng Department of Health   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Child health; District health services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK REDUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD;

EID: 84889667470     PISSN: 19943032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAJCH.680     Document Type: Article

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