Health care switching behaviour of malaria patients in a Kenyan rural community

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 377-386

  Nyamongo, I K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Focused ethnographic study; Gusii; Health care; Kenya; Malaria

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HEALTH CARE; MALARIA; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; RURAL AREA; SELF MEDICATION;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SELF CARE;

KENYA;

EID: 0036135308     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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