Barriers to the uptake of community-based curative child health services in Ethiopia

• Main Authors: Birkety Mengistu (Author), Meron Paulos (Author), Nesibu Agonafir (Author), Agazi Ameha (Author), Hailemariam Legesse (Author), Elizabeth Dankenbring (Author), Mariame Sylla (Author), Nathan P. Miller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Uptake of services to treat newborns and children has been persistently low in Ethiopia, despite being provided free-of-charge by Health Extension Workers (HEWs). In order to increase the uptake of these services, the Optimizing the Health Extension Project was designed to be imp...