Maternal diagnosis and treatment of children's fever in an endemic malaria zone of Uganda: Implications for the malaria control programme

Acta Tropica

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-64

  Lubanga, Rosalind G N ^a   Norman, Sandra ^b   Ewbank, Douglas ^b   Karamagi, Charles ^c  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Child survival; Index of suspicion; Malaria; Presumptive treatment; Sick child; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOTHER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; UGANDA;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD SURVIVAL; CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; LENGTH OF LIFE; MALARIA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MORTALITY; MOTHERS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARENTS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; SURVIVORSHIP; TREATMENT; UGANDA; YOUTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; UGANDA;

CHILD HEALTH; MALARIA CONTROL; MOTHERS DIAGNOSIS;

UGANDA;

EID: 0030609756     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(97)00071-5     Document Type: Article

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