Can malaria be controlled where basic health services are not used?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 314-322

  Unger, Jean Pierre ^a   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^a   Paepe, Pierre De ^a   Green, Andrew ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease control integration; Health policy; International cooperation; Public sector

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; MALARIA;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NAMIBIA; OCCUPATION; PARAMETER; PATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; TANZANIA; UGANDA;

AFRICA; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; HOME NURSING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALI; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICA; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33644830760     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01576.x     Document Type: Article

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