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| Title |
Using primary health care (PHC) workers and key informants for community based detection of blindness in children in Southern Malawi
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-10-37 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Khumbo Kalua, Ruby Tionenji Ng’ongola, Frank Mbewe, Clare Gilbert |
| Abstract |
There is great interest in providing primary eye care (PEC) through integration into primary health care (PHC). However, there is little evidence of the productivity of PHC workers in offering primary eye care after training and integration, and there is need to compare their effectiveness to alternative methods. The current study compared the effectiveness of trained Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) versus trained volunteer Key Informants (KIs) in identifying blind children in southern Malawi. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 72 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 67 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 19% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 13% |
| Researcher | 8 | 11% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 18 | 25% |
| Unknown | 10 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 30 | 42% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 11% |
| Unspecified | 5 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 February 2022.
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#17,286,645
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#1,146
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#125,753
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#22
of 23 outputs
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