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Performance of Four Respiratory Rate Counters to Support Community Health Workers to Detect the Symptoms of Pneumonia in Children in Low Resource Settings: A Prospective, Multi-Centre, Hospital-Based, Single-Blinded, Comparative Trial

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This article presents the results of an evaluation of four innovative respiratory rate timers used by CHWs in low resource settings for the diagnosis of childhood Pneumonia … [Read more...] about Performance of Four Respiratory Rate Counters to Support Community Health Workers to Detect the Symptoms of Pneumonia in Children in Low Resource Settings: A Prospective, Multi-Centre, Hospital-Based, Single-Blinded, Comparative Trial

A real-time medical cartography of epidemic disease (Nodding syndrome) using village-based lay mHealth reporters

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This article describes the feasibility of developing real-time, village-based health surveillance of an epidemic of Nodding syndrome (NS) using software-programmed smartphones operated by minimally trained lay mHealth reporters in northern Uganda.  … [Read more...] about A real-time medical cartography of epidemic disease (Nodding syndrome) using village-based lay mHealth reporters

A pilot study to evaluate home-based screening for the common non-communicable diseases by a dedicated cadre of community health workers in a rural setting in India

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This article reports the findings of a pilot study of home-based screening of common non-communicable diseases by community health workers in rural India. The pilot included screening over 6000 rural Indian residents by CHWs over a six-month period.  … [Read more...] about A pilot study to evaluate home-based screening for the common non-communicable diseases by a dedicated cadre of community health workers in a rural setting in India