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A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Use of a Locally Developed Children’s Book to Increase Shared Reading and Parent-Child Interactions in Rural Zambia

Annals of Global Health
Volume 89 (2023): Issue 1
By: Jeanette L. Kaiser,  Thandiwe Ngoma,  Peter C. Rockers,  Günther Fink,  Allison Juntunen,  Davidson H. Hamer,  Ben Chirwa and  Nancy A. Scott  
Open Access
|Apr 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3920 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 1, 2022
Accepted on: Mar 9, 2023
Published on: Apr 27, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
emergent literacy,
school readiness,
early childhood care and education,
early childhood development,
maternal child health,
sub-Saharan Africa,
low- and middle-income countries

© 2023 Jeanette L. Kaiser, Thandiwe Ngoma, Peter C. Rockers, Günther Fink, Allison Juntunen, Davidson H. Hamer, Ben Chirwa, Nancy A. Scott, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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