Peripheral health workers' knowledge and practices related to filarial lymphedema care: A study in an endemic district of Orissa, India

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 430-433

  Rath, Kalyani ^a   Swain, Basanta K ^a   Mishra, Shaloumy ^a   Patasahani, Trishna ^a   Kerketta, Anna S ^a   Babu, Bontha V ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISABILITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FILARIA; FOOT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIA; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MEDICAL STAFF; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ELEPHANTIASIS; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 18944392666     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2005.72.430     Document Type: Article

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