Malaria: Knowledge and behaviour in an endemic rural area of Turkey

Public Health

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 202-208

  Simsek, Z ^a   Kurcer, M A ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

GAP survey; Malaria; Treatment seeking; Turkey; Use of antimalarials

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; MALARIA VACCINE; WATER;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DISEASE CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE; MALARIA; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BED NET; BREEDING; CHILL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PLASMODIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOMATO; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMALARIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; TURKEY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; URFA; WORLD;

EID: 12344332381     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2004.03.011     Document Type: Article

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