Treatment practices for degedege, a locally recognized febrile illness, and implications for strategies to decrease mortality from severe malaria in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 305-313

  Makemba, A M ^a   Winch, P J ^a,c   Makame, V M ^a   Mehl, G L ^c   Premji, Z ^a,b   Minjas, J N ^a,b   Shiff, C J ^a,c  

^a Bagamoyo Bed Net Project   (Tanzania)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnomedicine; malaria; mortality; traditional healers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATIENT REFERRAL; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

CHILD MORTALITY; ETHNOMEDICINE; HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOUR; MALARIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

TANZANIA, BAGAMOYO DISTRICT;

EID: 0029669887     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.1996.tb00043.x     Document Type: Article

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