Involvement and performance of women in community-directed treatment with ivermectin for onchocerciasis control in Rukungiri District, Uganda

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 382-393

  Katabarwa, Moses N ^a   Habomugisha, Peace ^a   Agunyo, Stella ^a  

^a Carter Center Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Community directed; Ivermectin treatment; Male dominated health delivery system; Onchocerciasis control; Role of kinship; Women's involvement

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSUMER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANPOWER; ONCHOCERCIASIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; UGANDA; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036716161     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2524.2002.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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