The potential role of peripheral health workers and community key informants in the rapid assessment of community burden of disease: The example of lymphatic filariasis

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 522-528

  Gyapong, John O ^a,b   Webber, Roger H ^b   Bennett, Steve ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filariasis; Hydrocele; Key informants; Rapid assessment

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; FILARIASIS; HEALTH WORKERS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; ELEPHANTIASIS; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITISM; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RURAL POPULATION; TESTICULAR HYDROCELE;

EID: 0031857407     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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