Illness recognition, home care, and care-seeking for sick infants less than two months of age in shebedino district, Sidama zone, Ethiopia

Ethiopian Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-161

  Tefera, Worku ^a   Tesfaye, Hailu ^a   Bekele, Abeba ^a   Kayessa, Elias ^a   Waltensperger, Karen Z ^b   Tadesse, Yenealem ^a   Marsh, David R ^c  

^a SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b Save the Children   (South Africa)

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Care seeking; Child health; Community case management; Community health worker; Ethiopia; Newborn; Young infant

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD CARE; ETHIOPIA; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PATIENT ATTITUDE;

ETHIOPIA; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84929942780     PISSN: 00141755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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