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Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than existing surveillance: Results from a cross-sectional study in rural western Uganda

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The findings presented in this article assess the practicality of training CHWs to conduct high quality verbal autopsies that can be analyzed to estimate disease burden and mortality in resource-constrained settings. … [Read more...] about Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than existing surveillance: Results from a cross-sectional study in rural western Uganda

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