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Care Groups II: A Summary of the Child Survival Outcomes Achieved Using Volunteer Community Health Workers in Resource-Constrained Settings

Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Thomas Davis, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Jim Ricca and Pieter Ernst
Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):370-381; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00052
Henry Perry
aJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Melanie Morrow
bICF International, Maternal and Child Survival Program, Washington, DC, USA
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Thomas Davis
cFeed the Children, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Sarah Borger
dFood for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
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Jennifer Weiss
eConcern Worldwide/US, New York, NY, USA
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Mary DeCoster
dFood for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
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Jim Ricca
bICF International, Maternal and Child Survival Program, Washington, DC, USA
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Pieter Ernst
fJhpiego, Maternal and Child Survival Program, Washington, DC, USA
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vol. 3 no. 3 370-381
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00052
PubMed 
26374799

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: February 16, 2015
  • Accepted: July 27, 2015
  • Published online September 15, 2015.

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© Perry et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00052.

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  1. Henry Perrya⇑,
  2. Melanie Morrowb,
  3. Thomas Davisc,
  4. Sarah Borgerd,
  5. Jennifer Weisse,
  6. Mary DeCosterd,
  7. Jim Riccaf,
  8. Pieter Ernstg
  1. a​Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
  2. b​ICF International, Maternal and Child Survival Program, Washington, DC, USA
  3. c​Feed the Children, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
  4. d​Food for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
  5. e​Concern Worldwide/US, New York, NY, USA
  6. f​Jhpiego, Maternal and Child Survival Program, Washington, DC, USA
  7. g​World Relief/Mozambique, Chokwe, Mozambique.
  1. Correspondence to Henry Perry (hperry2{at}jhu.edu).
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