Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study

• Main Authors: Karin Källander (Author), Helena Hildenwall (Author), Peter Waiswa (Author), Edward Galiwango (Author), Stefan Peterson (Author), George Pariyo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To review individual case histories of children who had died of pneumonia in rural Uganda and to investigate why these children did not survive. METHODS: This case-series study was done in the Iganga/Mayuge demographic surveillance site, Uganda, where 67 000 people were visited once every...