Female community health volunteers service utilization for childhood illness- Improving quality of health services only is not enough: A cross-sectional study in mid-western region, Nepal

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Miyaguchi, Moe ^a   Yasuoka, Junko ^a   Poudyal, Amod Kumar ^b   Silwal, Ram Chandra ^c   Jimba, Masamine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c Green Tara Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Child health services; Female community health workers; Health care seeking behavior; Nepal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; MANPOWER; NEPAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEPAL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; VOLUNTEERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907918396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-383     Document Type: Article

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