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Factors Influencing Community Members' Perception of Primary Health Care Services Delivered by Community Health Workers in Rural Areas: A Systematic Review

Australian Journal of Rural Health, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Community Health Workers (CHWs) play an important role in delivering primary health care (PHC) services in rural and remote areas. Community perceptions regarding CHWs impact the acceptance, satisfaction and utilisation of health care services. This subsequently affects overall health outcomes and equity within the system. However,
Niaz Ahmed, Maginsh Dahal, Hamish Crocket, Roger Strasser   +3 more
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Combined Protocol for Acute Malnutrition Study (ComPAS) in rural South Sudan and urban Kenya: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2018
Background Acute malnutrition is a continuum condition, but severe and moderate forms are treated separately, with different protocols and therapeutic products, managed by separate United Nations agencies.
Jeanette Bailey, Natasha Lelijveld, Bethany Marron, Pamela Onyoo, Lara S. Ho, Mark Manary, André Briend, Charles Opondo, Marko Kerac   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic factors associated with severe acute malnutrition in Jamaica.

PLoS ONE, 2017
ObjectivesSevere acute malnutrition (SAM) is an important risk factor for illness and death globally, contributing to more than half of deaths in children worldwide. We hypothesized that SAM is positively correlated to poverty, low educational attainment,
Debbie S Thompson, Novie Younger-Coleman, Parris Lyew-Ayee, Lisa-Gaye Greene, Michael S Boyne, Terrence E Forrester   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the lipid-based nutrient supplements on prevention and treatment of childhood moderate undernutrition [PDF]

, 2019
Purpose: This review aims at assessing the effectiveness of LNS interventions for prevention and/or treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), stunting and other anthropometric indicators for undernutrition in children younger than 5 years ...
Alvarez, J-L., Alvarez, J-L., Amorim. A.R., Amorim. A.R., Keith, R., Keith, R., Oluwaniyi, .R., Oluwaniyi, .R.   +7 more
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Admission profile and discharge outcomes for infants aged less than 6 months admitted to inpatient therapeutic care in 10 countries. A secondary data analysis. [PDF]

, 2016
Evidence on the management of acute malnutrition in infants aged less than 6 months (infants <6mo) is scarce. To understand outcomes using current protocols, we analysed a sample of 24 045 children aged 0-60 months from 21 datasets of inpatient ...
Delchevalerie, P, Grijalva-Eternod, CS, Hirsch, JC, Kerac, M, McGrath, M, Seal, AJ, Wilkinson, C   +6 more
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Use of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference by Novel Community Platforms to Detect, Diagnose, and Treat Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: A stubborn persistence of child severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and continued gaps in program coverage have made identifying methods for expanding detection, diagnosis, and treatment of SAM an urgent public health need.
Bliss, Jessica, Briend, André, Guerrero, Saul, Kerac, Marko, Lelijveld, Natasha, Manary, Mark, Marie Zagre, Noël, Mayberry, Amy, McGrath, Marie, Shepherd, Susan, Weise Prinzo, Zita, Woodhead, Sophie   +11 more
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A Follow-up Experience of 6 months after Treatment of Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Dhaka, Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2017
Aim: As there is lack of information about what happens to children after recovery from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), we report their relapse, morbidity, mortality and referral during follow-up period. Methods: From February 2001 to November 2003, 180
Ahmed, Tahmeed, Alam, Nur H., Ashraf, Hasan, Chisti, Mohammod J., Gyr, N., Hossain, Md. I., Mahmud, Sayeda R., Salam, M. A.   +7 more
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Nutrition Paradox: Severe Acute Malnutrition Amidst the Proliferation of Processed Foods in Bilaspur’s Tribal Region in Chhattisgarh, India

Indian Journal of Public Health
Despite India’s overall economic growth and targeted antimalnutrition efforts, certain districts in Chhattisgarh, exhibit high severe acute malnutrition (SAM) rates, at 17.4% in 2022 per NFHS-5 data. We retrospectively studied four SAM-affected children,
Kimberley D’Souza, Naveen Ramesh
doaj   +1 more source

Uptake of HIV testing and outcomes within a Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) programme to treat Severe Acute Malnutrition in Malawi: a descriptive study [PDF]

, 2008
Background In Malawi and other high HIV prevalence countries, studies suggest that more than 30% of all severely malnourished children admitted to inpatient nutrition rehabilitation units are HIV-infected.
Paluku Bahwere, Ellen Piwoz, Marthias C Joshua, Kate Sadler, Caroline H Grobler-Tanner, Saul Guerrero, Steve Collins   +6 more
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Household-level factors associated with relapse following discharge from treatment for moderate acute malnutrition [PDF]

, 2018
Factors associated with relapse among children who are discharged after reaching a threshold denoted ‘recovered’ from moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) are not well understood.
Maleta, Kenneth M, Manary, Mark J, Rogers, Beatrice L, Rosenberg, Irwin H, Stobaugh, Heather C, Thakwalakwa, Chrissie, Trehan, Indi, Webb, Patrick   +7 more
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