Ill-health reported by schoolchildren during questionnaire surveys in Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 967-974

  Moestue, Helen ^a,f   Mahumane, Bonifacio ^a   Zacher, Anna ^a,g   Issae, Wahab ^b   Kihamia, Charles M ^b   Wen, Su Tung ^c,h   Adjei, Sam ^c,h   Bundy, Donald A P ^d,i   Hall, Andrew ^e,j  

^a SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b Tanzania Partnership Child Devmt   (Tanzania)

^c Ghana Partnership for Child Devmt   (Ghana)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^g Health Research Unit ^*  (United States)

^h Health Research Unit Ghana Health Service   (Ghana)

ⁱ WORLD BANK   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Ghana; Health; Mozambique; Questionnaires; School age children; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; MORBIDITY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANZANIA; TEACHER;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SELF CONCEPT; TANZANIA;

GHANA; MOZAMBIQUE; TANZANIA;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM;

EID: 0242660237     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-2276.2003.01113.x     Document Type: Review

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