André Thunberg

PhD Student, dept of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet
MD, Resident in Paediatrics, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital

The current project regards the identification and management of severe pediatric illness at health centers in Malawi.

• Prevalence of known risk factors for mortality and their relationship with IMCI danger signs
• Factors that affect the caregiver's completion of referral
• Reasoning around the referral decision and use of pre-referral treatment at health center level in Malawi
• Health care decisionmaker's view on the current referral system and the possibility of implementing pulse oximetry as part of routine care at health centers in Malawi

Paediatrics, Global Health, Health care in low resource settings.