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  Does the integrated management of childhood illness cost more than routine care?: results from the United Republic of Tanzania

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), reports on the costs of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) compared to routine care in Tanzania. It explains that 70 per cent of deaths of young children are caused by five conditions: diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, measles and malnutrition.
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  Human resources for obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality?

  Human Resources for Health, 2005

  This article from Human Resources for Health assesses the availability and distribution of healthcare professionals delivering emergency obstetric care in Northern Tanzania. The research found that there are adequate numbers of suitably trained healthcare workers in Tanzania to meet the national standards for healthcare delivery.
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  Comparison of house spraying and insecticide-treated nets for malaria control

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

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, compares the efficacy of residual house spraying against insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control using data from Africa, Asia and Melanesia. Comparisons of recent initiatives showed that ITNs were at least as effective as house spraying.
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  Integrated management of childhood illness by outpatient health workers: technical basis and overview

  World Health Organization, 1997

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, describes the technical basis for the guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which are presented in the WHO/UNICEF training course on IMCI for outpatient health workers at first-level health facilities in developing countries.
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  Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

  BioMed Central, 2003

  This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Nature or nurture? Child survival after the death of a sibling

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why do children have a lower chance of survival if one of their brothers or sisters has died? Are biological or cultural factors responsible for this phenomenon? Research by Macro International, USA and the UK University of Southampton compared the incidence and causes of infant deaths in Bolivia, Kenya, Peru and Tanzania.
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  Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania

  The Lancet, 2003

  Sub-Saharan Africa has the poorest overall health indicators of any region of the world. Its estimated under-5-year mortality rate of 173 per 1000 live births is almost twice that of south Asia, the second-highest mortality region, and nearly 30 times higher than the rate in developed countries. Furthermore, child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa seem to be increasing.

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