Sustained high coverage of insecticide-treated bednets through combined Catch-up and Keep-up strategies

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 815-822

  Grabowsky, Mark ^a,d   Nobiya, Theresa ^b   Selanikio, Joel ^c  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^b Ghana Red Cross Society ^*  (Ghana)

^c DataDyne Group   (United States)

^d TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bednets; Campaigns; Integration; Malaria; Measles

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; INSECTICIDE; MEASLES; RURAL AREA; VACCINATION; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BED NET; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP; SOCIAL MARKETING; VACCINATION;

BEDDING AND LINENS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEES AND CHARGES; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MEASLES; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; RURAL HEALTH; VACCINATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34347264478     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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