Controlling congenital and paediatric chagas disease through a community health approach with active surveillance and promotion of paediatric awareness

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Soriano Arandes, Antoni ^a   Basile, Luca ^b   Ouaarab, Hakima ^a   Clavería, Isabel ^a   I Prat, Jordi Gómez ^a   Cabezos, Juan ^a   Ciruela, Pilar ^b   Albajar Viñas, Pedro ^c   Jané, Mireia ^b  

^a Programa Especial de Malalties Infeccioses Vall d'Hebron Drassanes   (Spain)

^b AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active surveillance; Community health activity; Congenital chagas disease; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROCEDURES; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964313117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1201     Document Type: Article

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