A qualitative study to identify community structures for management of severe malaria: A basis for introducing rectal artesunate in the under five years children in Nakonde District of Zambia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kaona, Frederick A D ^a   Tuba, Mary ^a  

^a Mwengu Social and Hlth Res Centre   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; SESQUITERPENE; SUPPOSITORY;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; QUACKERY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VOMITING; ZAMBIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUPPOSITORY;

ADMINISTRATION, RECTAL; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PARENTS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SESQUITERPENES; SUPPOSITORIES; ZAMBIA;

EID: 18944396403     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-28     Document Type: Article

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