Using health extension workers for monitoring child mortality in real-time: Validation against household survey data in rural Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Amouzou, Agbessi ^a   Kidanu, Aklilu ^c   Taddesse, Nolawi ^c   Silva, Romesh ^b   Hazel, Elizabeth ^b   Bryce, Jennifer ^b   Black, Robert E ^b  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

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

^c Miz Hasab Research Center   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MONITORING; MORTALITY RATE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTRATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VITAL STATISTICS; WORKER; BIRTH RATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO;

BIRTH RATE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84959440703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126909     Document Type: Article

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