Health education for community-based malaria control: An intervention study in Ecuador, Colombia and Nicaragua

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 836-846

  Kroeger, Axel ^a   Meyer, Regine ^c   Mancheno, Manuel ^b   Gonzalez, Martha ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Regional Coordinator of the Latin American Centre   (Ecuador)

^c Centro de Investigacions Y Estudios de la Salud (CIES)   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Colombia; Ecuador; health education; malaria control; Nicaragua

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NICARAGUA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA;

HEALTH EDUCATION; MALARIA CONTROL;

COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; NICARAGUA;

EID: 0030301149     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.1996.tb00119.x     Document Type: Article

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