Malaria in pregnancy: What can the social sciences contribute?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 631-635

  Ribera, Joan Muela ^a,b   Hausmann Muela, Susanna ^b   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^c   Grietens, Koen Peeters ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Partners for Applied Social Sciences   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; FANSIDAR;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALARIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN MEDICINE; ANEMIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARASITOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 34247522320     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040092     Document Type: Review

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