Assessing the prevalence of sensory and motor impairments in childhood in Bangladesh using key informants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1103-1108

  Murthy, Gudlavalleti V S ^a   Mactaggart, Islay ^a   Mohammad, Muhit ^b   Islam, Johurul ^b   Noe, Christiane ^c   Khan, Aynul Islam ^d   Foster, Allen ^a   Smith, Andrew ^e   Qureshi, Babar ^e   Gilbert, Clare ^e   Lavy, Chris ^e   Kuper, Hannah ^e   Pant, Hira Ballabh ^e   Davies, Mike ^e   Arora, Narendra K ^e   Hartley, Sally ^e   Mackey, Sue ^e   Sivasubramaniam, Selvaraj ^e   Patel, Vikram ^e  

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

^b Child Sight Foundation   (Bangladesh)

^c CBM   (Germany)

^d National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology   (Bangladesh)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BILATERAL HEARING LOSS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; KEY INFORMANT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEWBORN; SEX RATIO; STAFF TRAINING; DISABILITY; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HEARING LOSS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISION DISORDERS;

ADOLESCENT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED CHILDREN; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84911006493     PISSN: 17430585     EISSN: 17430593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-305937     Document Type: Article

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