Improving and sustaining quality of child health care through IMCI training and supervision: Experience from rural Bangladesh

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 753-762

  Hoque, D M Emdadul ^a   Arifeen, Shams E ^a   Rahman, Muntasirur ^a   Chowdhury, Enayet K ^a   Haque, Twaha M ^a   Begum, Khadija ^a   Hossain, M Altaf ^b   Akter, Tasnima ^a   Haque, Fazlul ^a   Anwar, Tariq ^a   Billah, Sk Masum ^a   Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur ^a   Huque, Md Hamidul ^a   Christou, Aliki ^a   Baqui, Abdullah H ^c   Bryce, Jennifer ^c   Black, Robert E ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE   (Bangladesh)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS;

BANGLADESH; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84907964783     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czt059     Document Type: Article

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