A community-based health education programme for bio-environmental control of malaria through folk theatre (Kalajatha) in rural India

Malaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ghosh, Susanta K ^a   Patil, Rajan R ^b,c   Tiwari, Satyanarayan ^a   Dash, Aditya P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b Community Health Cell ^*  (India)

^c National Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR)   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BREEDING; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INDIA; KNOWLEDGE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MASS COMMUNICATION; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; DRAMA; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33845894698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-123     Document Type: Article

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