Effect of community mobilization on appropriate care seeking for pneumonia in Haripur, Pakistan
Background: Appropriate and timely care seeking reduces mortality for childhood illnesses including pneumonia. Despite over 90 000 Lady Health Workers (LHWs) deployed in Pakistan, whose tasks included management of pneumonia, only 16% of care takers sought care from them for respiratory infection...
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Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Global Health Society
2015-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Global Health |
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Online Access: | http://jogh.org/documents/issue201501/jogh-05-010405.XML |