Using community health workers for malaria control: Experience in Zaire

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 423-430

  Delacollette, C ^a   Van Der Stuyft, P ^b   Molima, K ^c  

^a Lutte Contre les Maladies T   (Burundi)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c FOMULAC ^*  (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CHLOROQUINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORTALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY WORKERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EVALUATION; EVALUATION REPORT; FRENCH SPEAKING AFRICA; HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL; MALARIA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MIDDLE AFRICA; MORBIDITY--CHANGES; MORTALITY--CHANGES; OBSTACLES; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROGRAMS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT; ZAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; HEALTH INTERVENTION; MALARIA CONTROL;

ZAIRE;

EID: 0029663152     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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