In much of the world antimicrobial drugs are sold without prescription or oversight by health- care professionals. The scale and effect of this practice is unknown. We systematically …
T Gera, D Shah, P Garner… - Cochrane Database …, 2016 - cochranelibrary.com
Background More than 7.5 million children younger than age five living in low‐and middle‐ income countries die every year. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the …
In October 2019, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer jointly won the 51st Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" for their …
Forty years ago, the Declaration of Alma-Ata enshrined primary health care as the basic approach to addressing health needs (1). The social, economic and demographic context of …
DTK Nguyen, KK Leung, L McIntyre, WA Ghali… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background An estimated 6.9 million children die annually in low and middle-income countries because of treatable illneses including pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria. To …
Background Poor adherence to the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) protocol reduces the potential impact on under-five morbidity and mortality. Electronic …
S Lange, A Mwisongo, O Mæstad - Social science & medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been introduced to reduce child morbidity and mortality in countries with a poor health infrastructure. Previous …
CA Gewa, N Yandell - Public health nutrition, 2012 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo examine the contribution of selected child-, maternal-and household-related factors to child undernutrition across two different age groups of Kenyan under-5s …
Background Childhood acute respiratory infection remains the commonest global cause of morbidity and mortality among under-five children. In Ethiopia, it remains the highest burden …