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  Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, generates and analyses survey data on inequalities in child mortality in Brazil, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa and Viet Nam.
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  Recognizing childhood illnesses and their traditional explanations: exploring options for care-seeking interventions in the context of the IMCI strategy in rural Ghana

  Medline, 2003

  This paper, published in Tropical Medicine and International Health, examines the importance of poor illness recognition as a barrier to care-seeking for severely ill children in Ghana. Research showed that several danger signs were not recognised by caregivers. These included symptoms of acute lower respiratory infections, dehydration and malnutrition.

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