Community unit performance: factors associated with childhood diarrhea and appropriate treatment in Nyanza Province, Kenya
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- 作者：Yoshito Kawakatsu ; Junichi Tanaka ; Kazuya Ogawa ; Kenneth Ogendo…
- 关键词：Community health worker ; Infectious disease ; Diarrhea ; Health ; seeking behavior ; Multi ; level analysis ; Kenya
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：416KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe government of Kenya launched its community health strategy in 2006 to improve certain aspects of its community health program. Under the strategy, community units (CUs) were established as level one of the Kenyan health system. A core member at this level is the community health worker (CHW). The objective of this study was to assess the relationship among the performance of the CUs, the prevalence of childhood diarrhea and appropriate treatment for it by controlling individual and community-level factors.