Public-private delivery of insecticide-treated nets: A voucher scheme in Volta Region, Ghana

Malaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kweku, Margaret ^a,b   Webster, Jayne ^b   Taylor, Ian ^c   Burns, Susan ^c   Dedzo, McDamien ^a  

^a GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL STAFF; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 33846979144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-6-14     Document Type: Article

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