Looking within the household: Gender roles and responses to malaria in Ghana

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 321-326

  Tolhurst, Rachel ^a   Nyonator, Frank K ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Equity; Gender; Ghana; Malaria; Treatment seeking behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; WORKER;

ATTITUDE; CHILD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GHANA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 31744446196     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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