Quality of care for treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition delivered by community health workers in a rural area of Mali

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Alvarez Morán, Jose Luis ^a   Alé, Franck G B ^b   Rogers, Eleanor ^a   Guerrero, Saul ^a  

^a Action Against Hunger UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

child nutrition; community health workers (CHWs); Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition; quality of care; severe acute malnutrition (SAM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHECKLIST; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALI; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PILOT STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RURAL AREA; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; EDUCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALI; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85017346784     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12449     Document Type: Article

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