The reliability of a newborn foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in southern Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Marchant, Tanya ^a   Penfold, Suzanne ^a   Mkumbo, Elibariki ^b   Shamba, Donat ^b   Jaribu, Jennie ^b   Manzi, Fatuma ^b   Schellenberg, Joanna ^a  

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

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HOME DELIVERY; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TANZANIA; VALIDATION STUDY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FOOT; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84906933229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-859     Document Type: Article

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