Treatment-seeking behaviour for malaria: A typology based on endemicity and gender

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 523-532

  Tanner, Marcel ^a   Vlassoff, Carol ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Epidemiology; Gender; Household; Malaria; Treatment seeking

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTHCARE; MALARIA CONTROL;

EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTHER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0032008135     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00195-0     Document Type: Article

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