The farmer field school: A method for enhancing the role of rural communities in malaria control?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Den Berg, Henk ^a   Knols, Bart G J ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; CURRICULUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; PEST MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RICE; RURAL POPULATION; SRI LANKA; ANIMAL; CONSUMER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PEST CONTROL; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; ORYZA SATIVA; PEST CONTROL; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; RURAL POPULATION; SRI LANKA; WETLANDS;

EID: 33646446316     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-3     Document Type: Review

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