Monitoring child mortality through community health worker reporting of births and deaths in Malawi: Validation against a household mortality survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Amouzou, Agbessi ^a   Banda, Benjamin ^b   Kachaka, Willie ^b   Joos, Olga ^a   Kanyuka, Mercy ^b   Hill, Kenneth ^a   Bryce, Jennifer ^a  

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

^b Malawi National Statistical Office   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MONITORING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; RESIDENTIAL CARE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VITAL STATISTICS; BIRTH; FAMILY SIZE; INFANT MORTALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALAWI; MALE; PARTURITION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84895868026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088939     Document Type: Article

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