Feasibility and acceptability of the use of artemether-lumefantrine in the home management of uncomplicated malaria in children 6-59 months old in Ghana

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1003-1016

  Chinbuah, Amanua M ^a   Gyapong, John O ^a   Pagnoni, Franco ^b   Wellington, Edith K ^a   Gyapong, Margaret ^c  

^a Health Research Unit Ghana Health Service   (Ghana)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Dodowa Health Research Centre   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Artemisinin based combination therapy; Children under five; Coartem ; Home management; Malaria

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; METRONIDAZOLE; PARACETAMOL;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MALARIA;

ARTICLE; BLISTER PACK; CAREGIVER; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; CRYING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FECES COLOR; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOME CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRURITUS; RESTLESSNESS; SIDE EFFECT;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CAREGIVERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; GHANA; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

AFRICA; DANGME WEST; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33745748182     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01654.x     Document Type: Article

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