Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on February 06, 2013

Authors

Duduzile Nsibande1, Tanya Doherty, Petrida Ijumba, Mark Tomlinson, Debra Jackson, David Sanders, Joy Lawn

Author Affiliations

1: Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, 491 Ridge Road, Durban, South Africa. duduzile.nsibande@mrc.ac.za

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