Community knowledge and perceptions about malaria and practices influencing malaria control in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 611-616

  Govere, John ^a   Durrheim, David ^a   La Grange, Kobus ^a   Mabuza, Aaron ^a   Booman, Marlize ^a  

^a Department of Health and Welfare ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; VECTOR CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULICIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0034123745     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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