Bringing severe acute malnutrition treatment close to households through community health workers can lead to early admissions and improved discharge outcomes.

Bringing severe acute malnutrition treatment close to households through community health workers can lead to early admissions and improved discharge outcomes.

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affects over 16.6 million children worldwide. The integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) strategy seeks to improve essential health by means of nonmedical community health workers (CHWs) who treat the deadliest infectious diseases in remote rural areas where ther...

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Main Authors: Noemí López-Ejeda, Pilar Charle-Cuellar, Franck G B Alé, José Luis Álvarez, Antonio Vargas, Saul Guerrero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227939

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227939

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